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Where is This Traffic Coming From -Should I be Worried?

by Pauline60
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I published a new site just a few days ago and have only done a very small amount of promotion. It has been getting a couple of visitors a day.

However I just checked my awstats and go the shock of my life to find over 300 unique visits to the site yesterday.

My awstats now show tons of similar links to my site. I don't know what they are but they all start with a country code then some more letters/numbers then mail.yahoo.com

If I click on them they take me to my email account.

I realise I am probably displaying an incredibly high level of ignorance here but what are they and how have I got them?

Whilst I am happy with the sales resulting from these visitors I am worried that I have done something stupid. Again.

Can any kind soul throw some light on this?

Thanks,

Pauline
#coming #traffic #worried
  • Profile picture of the author InternetMarketingIQ
    Are you using a Translator plug in?
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  • Profile picture of the author TheGraduate
    if you set it up on a old domain which you bought from somebody the traffic might be coming from people trying to visit the old website formerly on that domain. You also could have accidentally bought a domain which the company was using as a parked domain for a while getting redirected traffic (if that is the case, YOU GOT REALLY LUCKY) , what is your domain for that particular site?
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  • Profile picture of the author Pauline60
    I'm not using a translator plugin.

    The site has no domain age and whois records seem to indicate that it hadn't been registered before.

    As to whether it was parked I can't tell but why would I get a sudden huge spike like that?

    I have checked the articles etc that point to my site eg Ezine article, Hupbpage, Scribd and a blogger blog -none of them show any increase in traffic.
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    • Profile picture of the author TheGraduate
      Originally Posted by Pauline60 View Post

      I'm not using a translator plugin.

      The site has no domain age and whois records seem to indicate that it hadn't been registered before.

      As to whether it was parked I can't tell but why would I get a sudden huge spike like that?

      I have checked the articles etc that point to my site eg Ezine article, Hupbpage, Scribd and a blogger blog -none of them show any increase in traffic.

      that traffic I think is related to a promotion which you sent out using your auto-responder service, the auto responder is set up to hide your email by substituting it with letters and numbers, that might be all.
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  • Profile picture of the author Pauline60
    I don't have an auto responder....I just hope I haven't unwittingly done something wrong but I have hardly done anything with this site at all yet.

    I have pinged it and done some social bookmarking plus Ezine, Hub,blogger and Scribd. Thats it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Pauline60
    I have just done a bit more digging around.

    Ezine shows that my article has not been republished but I did an exact phrase search on the first line of my article and it has been republished by one site. When I checked this site it has a global Alexa ranking of about 7,700 and a US Alexa ranking of about 2,700. The links are intact so could this be where the traffic is coming from?

    That still doesn't explain the odd links on my awstats though...
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  • Profile picture of the author TheKeys
    Wow that's very interesting. Could be the stats are a little off or maybe your "little" promotion is bigger than you think.
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    • Profile picture of the author MarketWave
      I had something similar happen with one of my sites.

      What has more than likely happened is somebody included a link to your site in an email message and that message is being forwarded to other people.

      It's kind of like word-of-mouth advertising but over email. This is great! If you are doing any type of affiliate selling on your site you should see a good amount of orders. That email is being forwarded for a reason.

      When it happened to my site the traffic jumped for about 3 days and then tailed off. My awstats also showed links in from several mail servers.
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  • Profile picture of the author Pauline60
    Well whatever the cause of the mini stampede was it seems to be over! After one day my visitor numbers have gone back to normal.
    Ah well, it was exciting while it lasted!

    Thanks to everyone for their replies.

    Pauline
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