@Gregger 212824 wrote:
Taking a look further. Direct traffic had an 85% bounce rate. I figured it was just a bot running a refresh on the site. Then I saw that there was a 95% new visitor rate and looking at the map overlay for only direct traffic I saw that the visits were coming 1 each form cities all over America.
Now there is no reason there should have been an increase in direct traffic. Is this a bot? Is this a traffic seller showing off so they can try and contact him and sell traffic later? Is this Google crawling from its data centers?
Gregger,
I would venture to say that you are correct here. It sounds and smells like a bot, that is alternating between a wide range of IP’s that are owned. It could be a traffic seller demonstrating his fast, new technology, or alternatively, it could be used for scraper purposes. You should have your friend check for logs back a bit, and see if the bot visited the site before (hence, the explanation for direct access).