Why is an old post getting so many views?
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One particular post of mine is getting a lot of views, and it’s old post from February or March. While it’s nice to see the traffic on the blog, I’m puzzled because this is the only post that is getting so many views — and I mean more than a hundred a day. And it looks as though this post is getting all the traffic, and none of the others (including the new content) is getting any attention. Obviously I want people to look at the new stuff I’m posting. I don’t know if this is a problem with WordPress or if someone out there is really tapping on that particular post a hundred times a day or if it’s something else. Can someone help me with this issue?
Blog url: http://thewriteedge.wordpress.com/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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What does it say under your Referrers? Often this is because an image you posted suddenly gets ranked higher in image searches.
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I have seen Posts posted on another web site that has a lot of traffic – some of my Posts have been posted on user group boards and I got a spike for a day or two on a specific Post – look in your referrers list to see if this has happened
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That’s the funny thing; the referrer list is short, often from places like Facebook or the web in general. I’ve configured the blog to update to FB regularly, so I can’t imagine that it’s from FB that I’m getting so much traffic on that one post. And I don’t have an image associated with the post; I was just using it as an intro to the new content I placed on the blog that day (what I do with every post) and made a reference to the Ides of March. That’s all. But that post still keeps getting lots of views. It’s a mystery…
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I’ve got a post where I tie in the Sirens of Greek mythology and that post consistently get huge amounts of hits and it is 5 years old. Sometimes Google will grab something out of the post for keywords or phrases that end up being popular in searches. I don’t know that there really is any understanding this phenomenon. Call it a gift from the interwebz gods.
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A similar thing has been begun to occur on my blog; a post from a year ago has been getting hundreds of hits an hour, starting late this morning. It must be a bot.
Hmm.. school is out now, right?
Doug
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The other thing that can cause this is hits from non-bot spammers. Akismet can stop bot spammers and then they are not included in the stats, but non-bot spammers sometimes are. Spammers many times will target older posts for whatever convoluted reasons.
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Looks to me like Google and/or other search engines have changed the way they view WP.com blogs, and improved it.
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Unfortunately none of this is driving traffic to the other relevant (and current) portions of the blog. Is there any way to prevent this from happening?
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No.
Web traffic is very specific. There is no way to take, say, someone searching for “walrus tooth” and get them to read the rest of your blog.
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here are some facts for you. The majority of a “information” on the internet is spam. Over 80% of all comments submitted to blogs on the .wordpress.com domian every day are spam. Spam can either be robotic (bot spam) or human generated spam. Please scroll down this page and read “5 things every blogger should know about spam”
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P.S. If I were you I would remove the email address from the footer widget in your blog because it will be harvested by spam bots. Instead you can use a secure contact form. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/
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A bot spammer is something you don’t really need to worry about at WP.com. They are not counted in your stats here; only real views are counted.
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timethief: Thank you for the information. I appreciate the link to the Akismet page. It helped me understand several things. As for your comment about removing my email address, I thought that by replacing the “@” and the “.” with the words “at” and “dot” would help solve that problem. Does that not make a difference with spam bots?
Thank you, all!
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replacing the “@” and the “.” with the words “at” and “dot” would help solve that problem. Does that not make a difference with spam bots?
Translating your “hidden” email is a trivial programming task –
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