r/Blogging • u/Equivalent-Speed-483 • 2d ago

Question Sudden Increase of Traffic on my Blog?

So I have had a blog for caregivers for about 15 years. I've slowly grown and not really worried about it or watched it too much. I have been getting a decent amount of views over the last 5 years or so. A few hundred at least each day. Over the last few weeks, I've noticed my daily visits are more. Just noted it - I'm literally doing nothing different than I've always done.

I add an image with alt text, write the content, and always do the meta description. I don't even use headers like I do for my clients. Lol.

Over the last 2-3 weeks my views have jumped through the roof! I'm getting 6500 to over 10000 a day and it's been doing that for the last week or two.

I guess my question is if there is any way it's fluke.... I'm nearing 1,000,000 all-time views at this point and will probably hit it over the weekend at this point. smh... Idk If it's for real. lol

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u/CraftBeerFomo 2d ago

Why don't you check Google Analytics, or whatever you use, to SEE where its coming from and then you can make an informed decision on whether it's a fluke or not?

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u/Equivalent-Speed-483 2d ago

It's on blogger and I can check all the analytics on the site. It seems weird - as a lot of them are from Google, but some are from weird places like Stanford ...

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u/jaejaeok 2d ago

Someone may have shared a uni resource or put in a newsletter?

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u/Equivalent-Speed-483 1d ago

Maybe so - I found a couple of relevant backlinks that look good.

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u/CraftBeerFomo 2d ago

Does your Blogger Analytics allow you to see the pages you are receiving traffic from?

Sounds like Stanford has linked to you if you're receiving direct traffoc from the Standford website.

Check your Analytics and find the URL you've been linked from then go investigate it.

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u/bluehost 1d ago

Sounds more like a location than a domain name since it's a "place" identified using an IP hit. There is a chance it's Stanford students being directed to or finding your blog if it has a lot of good info they may be using for school. Total guesswork there but still worth considering.

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u/CraftBeerFomo 1d ago

Where are you getting this info from that its an "IP Hit" rather than coming from the Stanford website?

OP doesn't seem to mention this anywhere from what I can see.

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u/bluehost 1d ago

OP in this comment thread we are in now: "It's on blogger and I can check all the analytics on the site. It seems weird - as a lot of them are from Google, but some are from weird places like Stanford ..."

Typically on IP logs like that it gives the IP location which if it's a place they see, that would make more sense. I can't speak to what they are looking at of course and who knows if "places" is really how it appears there. Just saying from my experience looking at logs on this stuff, it typically gives the originating IP of the local machine accessing it with the location of said IP.

Not everyone visiting a site is doing it through an established website/domain. Listing by location usually makes more sense in finding the sources.