Lately I've been experiencing something strange traffic on a German site of mine. It appears to be that there are bots (at least they seem to be) visiting my site from all over the world, all coming from Google.DE (German Google) and all visiting the very same page.
I check the IP's/refer/et cetera with the WordFence plugin, I also block those visitors here, because...
It's strange to have quite some visitors from all over the world coming from Google.DE (Germany) and landing on one page.
So I started thinking, "Is this some good-mooded SEO 'GURU', or what?".
Because I know for a fact how extremely important your traffic (and its bounce percentage) have become for Google, my mind quickly turned for the worst.
See, these bots - they visit the page (from 'my' local Google.DE) whilst being in Australia for example. They all visit the very same page, all coming from the same Google.DE, even on the strangest times which doesn't make sense at all. But the next thing they do is...
LEAVE! And that, dear ladies and gentlemen, is seen as a bounce in Google's eyes - another quite important factor when it comes to keeping your rankings. I know for a fact, because I used a bot in the recent past that was sending such visitors (bots/proxies) to my site and actually stayed and visited pages - which made my ranks rise like a madman (no backlinks, no aged domain or any other SEO 'tricks').
So, what do you guys think of this issue? Very curious about your thoughts on this one ;-)!
>> Using Bounce Rate as some form of ranking metric wouldn't even make sense. Naturally on your page there would be some pages you wouldn't mind a high bounce rate on (contact us page for example) and others you would investigate a high bounce rate (perhaps an offer or product)
I think the thing here, with your little bot/proxy test is that is exactly what will happen if any page sees a surge of traffic in a short period of time (it's how things go viral) and then after a while, they slowly die down to there they should be
Googles very good at managing something when it is 'viral' and when it is just pure bot traffic, if you would have carried on with that experiment for any amount of time, you probably would have hurt, or may have hurt further along the line, your sites rankings.
In regards to your problem, i'm not entirely sure why they're all coming through the google.de domain, but I would investigate it because it just sounds like a bot.
I check the IP's/refer/et cetera with the WordFence plugin, I also block those visitors here, because...
It's strange to have quite some visitors from all over the world coming from Google.DE (Germany) and landing on one page.
So I started thinking, "Is this some good-mooded SEO 'GURU', or what?".
Because I know for a fact how extremely important your traffic (and its bounce percentage) have become for Google, my mind quickly turned for the worst.
See, these bots - they visit the page (from 'my' local Google.DE) whilst being in Australia for example. They all visit the very same page, all coming from the same Google.DE, even on the strangest times which doesn't make sense at all. But the next thing they do is...
LEAVE! And that, dear ladies and gentlemen, is seen as a bounce in Google's eyes - another quite important factor when it comes to keeping your rankings. I know for a fact, because I used a bot in the recent past that was sending such visitors (bots/proxies) to my site and actually stayed and visited pages - which made my ranks rise like a madman (no backlinks, no aged domain or any other SEO 'tricks').
So, what do you guys think of this issue? Very curious about your thoughts on this one ;-)!
>> Using Bounce Rate as some form of ranking metric wouldn't even make sense. Naturally on your page there would be some pages you wouldn't mind a high bounce rate on (contact us page for example) and others you would investigate a high bounce rate (perhaps an offer or product)
I think the thing here, with your little bot/proxy test is that is exactly what will happen if any page sees a surge of traffic in a short period of time (it's how things go viral) and then after a while, they slowly die down to there they should be
Googles very good at managing something when it is 'viral' and when it is just pure bot traffic, if you would have carried on with that experiment for any amount of time, you probably would have hurt, or may have hurt further along the line, your sites rankings.
In regards to your problem, i'm not entirely sure why they're all coming through the google.de domain, but I would investigate it because it just sounds like a bot.
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