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James Huff
(@macmanx)
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More than likely the post was indexed by search engines at some point. Just because you deleted it doesn’t mean that it has been removed from search engines.
Are you sure that all of the hits are going to the same post? Is there any trend to the referrers?
Looking over my top content, it does look like my top four are all older posts that are getting about :30 seconds of average reading so that sounds like what is probably happening. The majority of the now 3000 hits over a 2 day period did go to my Rachel post. And I did check the referring sites chart graph and my referring sites have been 60% of the traffic sources, which has never happened before. Usually it’s under 50%.
So what does that mean?
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James Huff
(@macmanx)
Volunteer Moderator
That sounds rather normal if someone linked to your post from a popular external site or social service (twitter, facebook, etc).
Okay, that also makes sense considering that her husband Sean Duffy was elected to Dave Obey’s seat on Tuesday night. Thing is, though, why are all of these people flocking to the post and then not reading it? That’s what led me to wonder if it was legitimate traffic. Really, this sort of thing has been happening since a few weeks after I posted her feature but it just went through the roof just recently. I mean, my bounce rate is typically high but not high enough to amount of :17 seconds a hit like that.
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James Huff
(@macmanx)
Volunteer Moderator
You can skim read quite a bit in 17 seconds.
Usually, most people have decided if they want to commit to reading an article or not within the first 5 seconds.
Thanks James. I guess I’ll just quit worrying about it and look at it as a good thing! I think I’ll put it back up.
