Blog visits suddenly skyrocketed

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  inthemoonlight435 · Member · Oct 27, 2011 at 2:02 pm

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  I realise this sounds like a fantastic problem to have (!) but I’m unsure whats going on with my site stats – according to them I’m now (in the last three days) getting hundreds and hundreds of visits from searches for halloween (and similar terms like halloween pictures) in search engines. The problem is that I have no idea how these people googling halloween are getting to my blog – I get to page 45 and still no sign of me in the search results!

  Am I being stupid/missing something? Any advice gratefully received!

  thanks, Kerry

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  naia68 · Member · Oct 27, 2011 at 3:30 pm

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  I’m having the same problem. It’s some kind of scam.

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  sammcnerney · Member · Oct 27, 2011 at 3:35 pm

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  I have had that happen to me. Do you have a picture on your blog having to do with Halloween?

  Do a google image search of Halloween and you might find that your picture is one of the first hits.

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  airodyssey · Member · Oct 28, 2011 at 3:06 am

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  Maybe?
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/sudden-odd-spike-in-traffic?replies=7

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  timethief · Member · Oct 28, 2011 at 3:14 am

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  See here > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpresscom-as-referrer/page/4?replies=135#post-726951