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200+ hits from Denmark in 10 minutes?! Why?!

by jcamb
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Suddenly today, I received 200+ hits to my website, within 10 minutes, from cities all over Denmark, and a few from the Netherlands and Sweden, all different IPs.

This site usually receives 20 hits a day to give you an idea of how popular it is.

70% of the visitors bounced off the first page. The rest went as deep as 2-3 pages.

What could have caused that? I am based in the US, I did not pay for clicks or anything and 90 of the hits came from google where the user typed the name of my domain?

PS: from 02:40:25 PM to 02:50:04 PM
#200 #denmark #hits #minutes
  • Profile picture of the author seraveegn003
    It is aslo confused me....
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  • Profile picture of the author Johnny Optimo
    Originally Posted by jcamb View Post

    Suddenly today, I received 200+ hits to my website, within 10 minutes, from cities all over Denmark, and a few from the Netherlands and Sweden, all different IPs.

    This site usually receives 20 hits a day to give you an idea of how popular it is.

    70% of the visitors bounced off the first page. The rest went as deep as 2-3 pages.

    What could have caused that? I am based in the US, I did not pay for clicks or anything and 90 of the hits came from google where the user typed the name of my domain?

    PS: from 02:40:25 PM to 02:50:04 PM
    Sounds like something automated that's targeting your site for whatever reason and using proxies.
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  • Profile picture of the author InternetMarketingIQ
    Hits and Unique visitors are not the same thing.

    How many conversions did you have?

    A lot of "hits" are just bots.

    What could have caused it? It's so little traffic that it doesn't matter. What matters is if anyone did anything that created a conversion. If it's bots you may want to block the traffic. If it doesn't convert you may want to block the traffic.

    What pages did they view? Do you offer anything for sale on those pages? Are they in English?

    If the traffic comes back consistently then do something with it, if not then move on.
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    • Profile picture of the author Daniel Evans
      A "hit" simply means a server request.

      If someone remote links to an image on your website you could generate that 200+ within 10 mins easily. The website that links may be location orientated.

      That just serves as an example since it could be a number of things...
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