Traffic spike mystery

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  louisproyect · Member · Jul 3, 2009 at 9:15 pm

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  For the past several days, this post has been visited about 500 percent more than my usual post:

  Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and the perils of success

  The log on my dashboard indicates that people came to the page through a “michael jackson” search but when I use Google, Yahoo, Answer or Bing I find no link to my blog. I am thoroughly mystified and understand that this is not exactly germane to the topic of using WordPress but I would truly appreciate some feedback. Thanks!

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 3, 2009 at 9:36 pm

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  Could it possibly be a Google Image search instead? I’ve noticed that Google has severely downgraded blogs lately relative to Mainstream Media sites, but the same doesn’t apply to their image search.

  Also, Google divides its search by country, so perhaps you’re ranking high in some Google zone you, yourself, don’t happen to be in.

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  louisproyect · Member · Jul 3, 2009 at 10:13 pm

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  I am linking to a wikipedia image for the album “Bad” but that wouldn’t affect my traffic, would it?

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 3, 2009 at 10:15 pm

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  Not if you’re linking out from there, no.