am new on stackexchange, so I apologize in advance if this is the wrong place to post.I am in the midst of clearing up links to my website and came across this one coming from this site/blog: www.disabledsportsmen.net.  I wrote to the domain registrar, who then pointed me to the IP host which turns out to be Softlayer.question is, why do people even put up links like this?  this link was not bought or set up in any way by us.  also why would Softlayer be hosting/have a site like this?  Do they even know about it?  Will they be able to remove it if I emailed them to do so?Thanks!
Backlinks coming in from strange/unknown referrer
seo;backlinks
Softlayer (just from searching on google) is a company that rents out server space to their customers to host websites. Anyone can sign up with them if they have sufficient money.There's a couple of possibilities as to why www.disabledsportsmen.net appeared as a referrer in your server logs.Someone may have submitted a story about your website to a page on www.disabledsportsmen.net along with images hot-linked to your server. This means any guest that loads the story in their browser will automatically load the image from YOUR server to their browser. Matters are far worse if you do not implement any proper caching with any of the images.There may be a special program installed on the computer associated with the IP address thats associated with www.disabledsportsmen.net. The special program is then set to download items from your website. If you see tons of entries from this URL in your server log and the time printed for each entry is very similar (where each entry is up to one second away from the last), then its definitely a program from the server doing it. The actual name for the people behind this kind of operation are known as script kiddies.As for your last question, If the reason for the entry in your logs is what I described in #1 above, then contact the people at www.disabledsportsmen.net and ask them to remove all entries containing any direct links to any element of your site. If however the reason is #2 then you'll need to limit access to the IP address or block access depending on whether or not legit users also use that IP address to connect to you.