Can't figure out why I'm getting so much traffic...

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by danno52000, Oct 17, 2008.

  1. #1
    Just put a site up and threw an article on ezinearticles.com...and when I look at my ezine stats i see 50 hits. Now when I look at my traffic report for the site, I see 50 hits from ezinearticles.com and 150 hits from :

    https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/webscr

    That's 150 hits in ONE day for a site that went up at the beginning of the month coming from this url?

    what the hell is going on?
     
    danno52000, Oct 17, 2008 IP
  2. primeelite

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    To be honest don't know what to tell you. It doesn't seem right that it would be coming from that address. It must be forwarding through somehow from another website. Maybe someone else who knows more about Google Analytics can help but it stumps me.
     
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  3. danno52000

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    I know - it's weird....I literally put the site up on the 1st. No traffic until I submitted ONE article to ezinearticles but THEY were only showing 50 url clicks and my traffic report is showing 50 incoming uniques from ezinearticles.com....but another 150 clicks from this random UK paypal address....

    NO CLUE...
     
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  4. danno52000

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  5. danno52000

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    Also, is anyone a premium member of Ezinearticles.com?

    Is it worth it?
     
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    just check you may be start getting good decent ranking in various terms
     
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    Well you clearly have the right keywords at the right time. It has to be someting in your title that people are really searching for.

    Good work.

    CT
     
    chasthrpr, Oct 18, 2008 IP
  8. danno52000

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    Ok - but no ideas on what that paypal address is? Why would it show visitors as coming from there?
     
    danno52000, Oct 18, 2008 IP
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    Also...I just verified that all the visitors did, in fact, come from the UK...
     
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    Wow that really is strange. I wish I was getting traffic from unknown sites...
     
    Jessemn, Oct 18, 2008 IP