Help tracking down huge spike in views

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  pegoleg · Member · Mar 18, 2015 at 2:00 pm

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  In the past 2 days I’ve had over 11,000 views on a 4-year-old blog post. The stats page says the source is Facebook, but when I click on it, it only goes to my page.
  Is there any way to find out WHO is promoting my blog? I’d like to offer to have their baby…or at least say thanks.

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

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Mar 18, 2015 at 5:58 pm

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  Ha!

  I’m afraid that is not information we have to share.

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  pegoleg · Member · Mar 18, 2015 at 6:14 pm

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  OK, thanks for the prompt response. I guess all I can do is enjoy the ride.

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Mar 18, 2015 at 7:03 pm

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  It’s a pretty cool traffic spike. Good for you!

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  pegoleg · Member · Mar 18, 2015 at 7:10 pm

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  I’m thrilled! Just wish I could figure out how to repeat this trick.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 18, 2015 at 7:14 pm

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  The comparison below was created by Copyscape, which searched for copies of this page:

  http://pegoleg.com/

  The page below has 539 words matching 14% of the page, as highlighted below:

  http://newstrib.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=266&ArticleID=42515

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  timethief · Member · Mar 18, 2015 at 7:17 pm

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  The link is http://newstrib.com/m/Articles.aspx?ArticleID=42515

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  timethief · Member · Mar 18, 2015 at 7:19 pm

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  Oops! You have to go to copyscape.com to view the duplicated content. You may want to read this too https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66359?hl=en

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  timethief · Member · Mar 18, 2015 at 7:44 pm

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  @pegoleg
  I posted what I did above because I thought it might be importatnt to you.

  When is comes to answering your question if you search social networks for the URL of the 4 year old post you may get results that will lead to answering it.

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  pegoleg · Member · Mar 18, 2015 at 7:46 pm

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  Thanks Timethief – you’re always so quick on the response! That stat would be because my latest post was a version of a humor column that I wrote that first ran in the newspaper. Interesting resource – I never knew about copyscape.

  No, I don’t think anybody copied my material; somebody on Facebook (with a lot of friends, apparently,) posted a link to a specific old post on my blog, and I want to know who it was. Very mysterious.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 18, 2015 at 8:58 pm

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  Hi again,
  WordPress.com can’t supply that information re: the Facebook shares made on the Facebook site. However, there are tools you can use to track social network shares. here are two easy to use free ones. Google alerts https://www.google.com/alerts allows you to an email for the keywords for online mentions as frequently as you want. You can try social mention too http://www.socialmention.com/