sudden increase in direct traffic to website

**casionmark** · 11 September 2018, 3:32 am

Hi -

I've noticed a massive increase in direct traffic to my site in the last 2 days. Could this be something nefarious? I can't see how it would bit my ranking because its not organic traffic.

Mark

**Mattbar** · 11 September 2018, 3:41 am

Perhaps, is all the traffic going to the same page? If so what's on the page? Could it be bonus abuse?

**sweetbet** · 11 September 2018, 3:45 am

Can you tell if it's human or bot traffic? Investigate the IP addresses through which the traffic is entering your site.

**casionmark** · 11 September 2018, 3:46 am

No - different pages. Just checked GA. All coming from server force ltd (service provider).

**baldidiot** · 11 September 2018, 4:41 am

Probably scraping or crawling your site. Esp if it's all hitting different pages.

**casionmark** · 11 September 2018, 5:37 am

Yea. Getting lots of clicks on links too. hundreds.

**TheGooner** · 11 September 2018, 5:53 am

These guys? https://www.serverforce.net/ ?

They host websites - they don't appear to be an ISP.
So all traffic is likely to be bot traffic NOT human eyes.

Useless at best - harmful at worst (scraping or hacking or attempting to find weak passwords).
I'd block the entire range via htaccess. ( 195.242.220.0/22 )

**casionmark** · 11 September 2018, 6:03 am

ok thanks. will take a look.

**casionmark** · 11 September 2018, 6:07 am

what did you do to find out their IPs btw?

**eenzoo** · 11 September 2018, 9:05 am

Originally Posted by casionmark

what did you do to find out their IPs btw?

Besides GA, you could use a second counter service like Statcounter or Piwik to see IP´s of your traffic

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