Spike in traffic

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  timethief · Member · Dec 6, 2009 at 10:31 pm

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  @sistersthree
  You asked: “I am wondering how I add my wordpress.com blog to the Google webmaster’s account. How do I add the required meta coding to my header. “

  Please take note of these instructions in the wordpress support documentation.
  Verifying and registering wordpress.com blogs with Google, Yahoo and Bing
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/
  Sitemap http://en.support.wordpress.com/sitemaps/

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  woodybass · Member · Dec 7, 2009 at 3:23 am

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  I went from 10 views.. to 130 today… so somethign is def wrong with the stats tool

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  scopettg · Member · Dec 7, 2009 at 1:33 pm

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  All guess and… any verdict?

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  cptnrandy · Member · Dec 7, 2009 at 1:40 pm

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  I’m seeing the same thing – big spike on Sunday traffic with NO referrers. Something is up.

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  simplycol · Member · Dec 7, 2009 at 3:24 pm

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  My stats seem to be back to normal today. Up over 500 yesterday… back down to 10 so far this morning. The spike in the graft is a sight to see. :-)

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  sub4runr · Member · Dec 7, 2009 at 3:44 pm

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  Raincoster,
  I added the widget that shows stats. The red number that is in the center, this is the number of people viewing my blog live? Is this correct, thank you.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 7, 2009 at 6:15 pm

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  @sub4runr
  Hello there. If you read the thread you will find your answer. It is: “We don’t know and if we did know this thread would be marked ‘resolved’.”

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  sub4runr · Member · Dec 7, 2009 at 7:03 pm

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  @ timethief
  Hey how’s it going? Fair enough, haha. I’m pretty new to all of this so I’m taking time to figure things out. I appreciate the response.

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  electricia1 · Member · Dec 7, 2009 at 10:55 pm

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  @TimeThief
  Thank you for all that you do here and on “one cool site.” As a result of the spike in stats, I decided it was time to go ahead and install one of the other statcounters as a backup reference. After going back and rereading the very helpful post on your blog, I went with statcounter. Now I’m ready for the next spike!

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 7, 2009 at 11:06 pm

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  I presume sub4runr is referring to the Whosamungus widget. If so: Yes, the red number in the center is the number viewing your blog live. Click on the widget to get details.

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  jmadlc55 · Member · Dec 9, 2009 at 3:49 am

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  Latest from Command Central:

  Q: It’s been quite a jump from a 20-30 daily views-average to 500 today. Could it be a search engine indexing?

  A: Search engine robots are not counted in the view stats.

  There you have it folks. I still don’t know and neither does Support.

  My stats are back to (a pathetically low/day-to-day average) number