This is a really difficult wuestion I have. I put a site together few months ago and wrote like 30 articles, suddenly one day I have 10,000 people on my site. I was shocked because I didn't do any advertisements. So I went to my google analytic page to look where the traffic was coming from. I saw this search engine I never heard about, but I couldn't find my website there when I searched for it, but all the traffic came from there. Anyone can tell me what happen here?
Hello, When you say search engine - Do you mean people coming from there as results or the spider crawling your site? Jack.
are you getting this , 10k , number from GA or from your web server logs? in general, just run something like "grep referringsitedomaingoeshere.com /var/log/apache2/access.log" to see the exact referring url
If this is on Google Analytics, you'd know the Referrer! If you're interested in tracking specific traffic, then I'd recommend looking into Google Anlytics advanced tracking metrics, and including a call to GA at the beginning of each page posting their ID to Analytics - this way you can track their entrace, path and exit from the site.
Google analytics and statscounter are the two most best options to track your website traffic and get more other related information as well.
May be, due to google dance. when your web traffic was 10k, you website was on top searches on particular keywords which analytic has shown . but just next day you website looking at same potion where was it actual but due to google dance, it come on the top searches for some time.