Mystery referral traffic with a high bounce rate

[jozaksut]

Hi everybody,

I've recently noticed that we get a large proportion of referred traffic every month from a site nobody else at our company recognizes (eadgear.com.) The root page redirects to a different domain, and the page that is sending all of the referral traffic to our site is a members only page. I also can't sign up for an account without a referral ID. In short, it seems shady. This one site is sending us over 20% of our monthly referral traffic - all to our homepage, and with a 90% bounce rate. Is there a danger to our SEO positioning based on the high number of bounces being contributed here? Has anybody else seen something like this? And is there any sort of recourse we have if this is a problem?

[KeriMorgret]

You're not the only one that's been seeing referrals from that site. Check out this other Q&A at http://www.seomoz.org/q/what-is-eadgear-com. There are two people in there with the same issue. Sadly, no definitive answer, but that thread might be of interest to you.

[jozaksut]

Thanks Keri! I think I'll take my questions over there.