I set up a proxy around two weeks ago just to house one of my domains until I had something better to do with it. In the first day or so I did quite a bit of advertisement, mainly submission to proxy listings. Following that, the site fell by the wayside as I focused on projects that would actually bring in an income. I am, however, addicted to Google Analytics. The daily traffic had been fairly stable at around 20 uv/d and on the rise for the last two days (yesterday I had 40 unique visitors). Imagine my surprise when I woke up today to find an incredible amount of traffic, largely from one country (Iran [Actually, almost entirely from Iran]). http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/2462/visitorgraphxs5.th.jpg I am fairly new to this business and am unsure as to the cause of this sudden increase. Can anyone shed some light on this conundrum? Thanks.
Bump, if for no other reason that it seems terribly uncanny having all of your traffic come from small towns in a relatively small country.
it probably is a word spreading among friends of same group. One might found it interesting and ask other to view as well. Basically i think its a good start. Not just you that addict to google analytics, i am one of it too.
With a sudden spike sometimes it is related to a social media submission such as stumble upon or digg.
Iran traffic does not earn you much $$ if compare to other country. So,i think its wasting your bandwidth only for allowing such low conversion traffic. I block out some low paying traffic such as Iran etc to my proxy
Eh, I'm making more money than I was. I made 20 cents yesterday, and 20 cents today so far. Looking at the source sites for Google analytics, it seems that some proxy lists were posted to high-trafficked arabic blogs and my proxy happened to be high up on those lists.