I had something very strange happen yesterday with visits to Backyard Casual store. I noticed in HW dashboard an unsually high amount of visits to this store that runs about the same daily. I went to Google Analytics only to find that these were all direct to the site visits, not from search or referral. All were for 1 page only, visiting every page in the site, including Contact, About, etc. Of course, then the bounce rate is through the roof. All came from Safari, I think that is the MAC browser, right? My sister had the same thing happen in her store. Anybody else have this happen or anyone have any theories on this?? Wierd.
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dalesmiscellany
The only time that has happened to me is when I went to a website that showed what my site looked like in different browsers.
February 08, 2012 07:05
ezgrabs
Happened to me too. Considering my hits have been down lately, it was a bit odd.
February 08, 2012 16:22
galacticstone
Same thing happened to me about two months ago - huge spike in traffic from a single source. I got thousands of hits over a period of 3-4 days and then it suddenly stopped. My best guess after looking at it closely is this - it was an automated bot of some kind, possibly a search-engine indexer gone mad, or some kind of application somebody was running to check my site for updates. In my case, all of these hits went to only 3 product pages and nowhere else. Odd.
February 23, 2012 19:43
dirtybrandclothing
It could be search bots looking up (crawling) your site. I had several hits from local.yahoo.
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The only time that has happened to me is when I went to a website that showed what my site looked like in different browsers.
Happened to me too. Considering my hits have been down lately, it was a bit odd.
Same thing happened to me about two months ago - huge spike in traffic from a single source. I got thousands of hits over a period of 3-4 days and then it suddenly stopped. My best guess after looking at it closely is this - it was an automated bot of some kind, possibly a search-engine indexer gone mad, or some kind of application somebody was running to check my site for updates. In my case, all of these hits went to only 3 product pages and nowhere else. Odd.
It could be search bots looking up (crawling) your site. I had several hits from local.yahoo.