Too good to be true..?

Seawitchartist · 10-7-09, 05:39 PM

Hi all
The usual problem of no stats or missing stats has been turned on it's head this time.
If I believe the stats I'm getting now I'd probably believe a 419 spam as well.
All year I've been working hard to get about 700 unique visitors a month, when suddely I get this in the first week.
268 visitors yesterday, no...there is no presence of something like stumble uponto explain this.
I notice my own full url is in the list of keyphrases six time instead of once saying how many times.
My own website, and even a page of my website is one of the referring sites, I don't remember seeing this before.
I hope I'm wrong.....but I don't think this dramatic upturn is for real....or am I just being an awful skeptic?

**Croc Hunter** · 10-8-09, 02:12 AM

A Bing bot probably found and crawled your site.

Seawitchartist · 10-10-09, 08:51 AM

Hi Croc
I had wondered, after all I remember on a forum we would sometimes see the visitors on line being reported as over a thousand when the norm would be about a dozen,,,the spider was crawling the site!
However four days on I'm still getting over 200 visitors a day something else must be the cause.
A switch to facebook with it's direct linking to your site rather than the broken ones on myspace.com will be helping, as will my finally getting myself a business card but thats just getting organised locally,it won't explain a jump on 100-150 visitors a day, many in the small hours (here) and it seems to be showing on the search engine too....I'm enjoying it but I would like to know why it's happened!

**Doc C** · 10-10-09, 04:35 PM

Stop looking a gift horse in the mouth and enjoy it while it lasts and any business it brings in.

10-7-09, 05:39 PM	#1
Seawitchartist Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: London Posts: 123 Reputation: 8	Too good to be true..? Hi all The usual problem of no stats or missing stats has been turned on it's head this time. If I believe the stats I'm getting now I'd probably believe a 419 spam as well. All year I've been working hard to get about 700 unique visitors a month, when suddely I get this in the first week. 268 visitors yesterday, no...there is no presence of something like stumble uponto explain this. I notice my own full url is in the list of keyphrases six time instead of once saying how many times. My own website, and even a page of my website is one of the referring sites, I don't remember seeing this before. I hope I'm wrong.....but I don't think this dramatic upturn is for real....or am I just being an awful skeptic? __________________ Never trust statistics unless you fiddled the figures yourself! www.seawitchartist.com

10-8-09, 02:12 AM	#2
Croc Hunter Mod.. with bite.. Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 6,630 Reputation: 383	A Bing bot probably found and crawled your site. __________________ Croc Hunter MSC :

10-10-09, 08:51 AM	#3
Seawitchartist Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: London Posts: 123 Reputation: 8	Hi Croc I had wondered, after all I remember on a forum we would sometimes see the visitors on line being reported as over a thousand when the norm would be about a dozen,,,the spider was crawling the site! However four days on I'm still getting over 200 visitors a day something else must be the cause. A switch to facebook with it's direct linking to your site rather than the broken ones on myspace.com will be helping, as will my finally getting myself a business card but thats just getting organised locally,it won't explain a jump on 100-150 visitors a day, many in the small hours (here) and it seems to be showing on the search engine too....I'm enjoying it but I would like to know why it's happened! __________________ Never trust statistics unless you fiddled the figures yourself! www.seawitchartist.com Last edited by Seawitchartist : 10-10-09 at 10:44 AM.

10-10-09, 04:35 PM	#4
Doc C Moderator Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Southern CA Posts: 4,965 Reputation: 286	Stop looking a gift horse in the mouth and enjoy it while it lasts and any business it brings in. __________________ "A weak man has doubts before a decision. A strong man has them afterwards." -Karl Kraus 1874-1936

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