In the last few days I've had a number of hits from Google.com addresses using search strings like: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...s-public-sector-still-not-moving-to-linux-oss With various full story stubs as the search string. The hit I'm looking at right now visited three pages in total, using IE6, and spent 11 minutes on the site. You might be able to see the record of the visit here: http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s21whatjapanthinks&v=79&r=9&vlr=11&pg=1&d=120 Anyone else seeing this? Is this some kind of quality checking? A good thing or a bad thing?
It looks like traffic is coming to your site using those keywords. Did you use those keywords in your title or somewhere in the post? Google is rankings you for that longtail phrase it seems.
Nope, that's not right. The person (or machine...) browsing is within the Googleplex, and they are not looking for long tail words, they are using the full hypenated page stub generated by WordPress. Here's two more: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:whatjapanthinks.com overstocked-at-home-in-japan http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...m starbucks-japans-highest-rated-coffee-chain All three today have identical broswer strings, monitor resolution, etc, etc, just different IP addresses owned by Google. Surely it can't just be me getting these? (BTW, I haven't tweaked anything on Google recently, and I don't have any link sales, or anything else Black Hat)