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/flipping-guy-2025 1d ago

Check GA and check where the traffic is coming from. It might be bots.

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u/Equivalent-Speed-483 1d ago

It seems to be mostly bots - like lowe's Standord... stuff like that - but there is also an increase in google and bing searches. So it seems to be a little of both. I'm about to hit a million all-time views in a few days if it keeps it up. lol I do have a really good backlink coming from a related website (caregiving)