Why am I getting unusually high activity on one post?

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  mmtread · Member · Mar 20, 2013 at 9:10 pm

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  I have a post that was published back in November, and which got maybe 10-12 views/week on average. Suddenly, the views have skyrocketed almost 1,200%. It hasn’t been reblogged anywhere, and the views are all coming from one search term on Google. It’s gotten 153 views today. What do you think is going on?

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  amightywp · Member · Mar 20, 2013 at 11:02 pm

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  Hi there,

  I just went and took a look at your statistics, and the traffic which you’ve gotten has actually come from Yahoo Image Searches. Google has recently instituted practices that makes sure that any image searches from its site results in few if any views on statistics. Yahoo has not yet implemented any such changes, so it someone searches for a term that matches an image on your site, then that can result in a view (but not a visit, because nobody visited your site) showing up in your stats.

  In your case, if you review the search terms, you can see that recently searches for “anini beach in kauai” resulted in a lot of hits.

  It may be that there were a lot of hits that fit those terms, or one person went back over and over again. In either case, that appears to be what happened!