Santiago Bilinkis l Risk and Reward - Trying to live a life out of the comfort zone

Let’s see if any of my fellow readers who are more experienced bloggers can help me with this. Last Tuesday the blog had almost three times the normal number of visits. I was totally confused in trying to figure out what could have generated such a peak of traffic.

Checking out the stats a little bit, I found out that in a very short period of time there were 678 visits, all from a single city in the United States. Curiously enough, they were not directed only at home or to any particular post, but they visited virtually every one of the pages in the blog.

When I saw what happened I imagined it had to be some kind of ‘bot’ or ’spider’, but if that was the case, the IP would always have been the same and it would have been a single visit with a very high number of ‘pageviews’. On the contrary, what I got was lots of visits with very few ‘views’ each.

The city from where the visits came was Mountain View, which is the place in Silicon Valley where Google is. But I think the Google servers are not physically there.

Anyone have an idea of what may have happened?