dvdobbin wrote... >Martin Clark wrote: >> I'm not complaining, but Pennine Waterways seems to have become >> unexpectedly popular all of a sudden! >> >> According to my site stats, there were 1351 unique visitors to the site >> yesterday - twice the average number. I thought that maybe, because of >> the snow, lots of people had spent the day at home surfing the net, but >> then I see that there have been over 750 visits so far today! > >My church website has had a few high number of hits recently, but I put >that down to Google, etc, bots crawling over it to speed up searches. >The more links you have into your site, the higher the priority you get >when the site is listed. If you have many links out the bots have to >crawl through the Internet checking, counting and indexing the sites >attached to yours. These crawling sessions tend to happen every so >often and get particularly high when Google, Yahoo, Ask, etc, all start >one off about the same day.
I doubt that the bots could cause such an unusual spike. The higher volume is continuing today, with over 900 visitors so far! See http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s10penninewaterways&r=35 to get an idea of how unusual the activity is. -- Martin Clark Pennine Waterways Website http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk
