Spam Blog Views
I noticed on my blog stats today that at one particular time, I got ~15 views from the UK, at another time ~15 views from the US, and likewise with one or two other countries. Since the views in each case were all pretty much at the same time, I assumed they'd be from the same person, viewing different pages. However, the total number of views of specific pages (in contrast to the home page) is only around 10.
Do I assume therefore that these views were in fact spam, or what? I'd appreciate any information anyone has on this sort of thing, as I'm relatively new to it myself :)
Do I assume therefore that these views were in fact spam, or what? I'd appreciate any information anyone has on this sort of thing, as I'm relatively new to it myself :)
Maybe a webcrawler? There are other search engines besides google that use them.
Yeah I guessed it would be something like that. Rather defeats the point of blogger stats :/ Those kind of things probably account for most of my views :(
Not really, a webcrawler would be systematic so if you see an evenly distributed number of hits across your sites then you know you can discount those.
Or you can look at growth in number of hits compared to average to get a rate of increase. I don't know if I said that right but it's supposed to be simular to how you calculate "profit" in economics.
Or you can look at growth in number of hits compared to average to get a rate of increase. I don't know if I said that right but it's supposed to be simular to how you calculate "profit" in economics.
| evenly distributed number of hits across your sites |
As in individual posts of the blog, or do you mean different sites entirely?
I only have the one active blog, so I have nothing to compare to. Perhaps when the statistics reach Google analytics tomorrow, I'll be able to learn about more about whether those views all came from exactly the same city, etc. as well.
For example, if all of your pages, including ones that aren't linked to yet, saw an increase of 10 hits. Then you can assume those are from a bot or a crawler.
All the hits were to the main page - there were few hits to any subpages/posts.
Forgive me for being slow, but linked to from where? All blog posts and pages which are published are automatically linked to in the archive/menu bar.
| aren't linked to yet |
Forgive me for being slow, but linked to from where? All blog posts and pages which are published are automatically linked to in the archive/menu bar.
There's some way to have stuff not post until a given time. This might be only posts but I'm pretty sure it worked for the links to. I don't run a blog but my girlfriend does and this ability saved her blog when we went to Puerto Rico for a few weeks.
Well that probably can be done in blogger, but I have no idea how ;) I have some half finished posts in draft, but they don't (and I think can't) get any views until I publish them.
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Update: For example, I just got a referral from a search on Google.ca. There was a search term, so that one view was presumably genuine. However, there were in fact 8 total pageviews from Canada at that time, but only one targeted at a specific post. So is it coincidental that the other 7 views happened at the same time as the genuine one. It seems unlikely that this viewer merely pressed the refresh button 7 times :S
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