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I thought I would follow up with some more facts in case anyone else finds this scenario on their sites: 1. Traffic is coming from 1,000s of different IP addresses, all based in the same geo (Poland in this case) 2. All traffic has the referer hidden by using the t.co (Twitter / X) URL...

Hi guys, thanks for the replies, @tazarbm I am not sure if it qualifies as CTR manipulation because they are not actually going via Google search results, they are masking the source referrers using a t.co (X) URL shortener, so almost certainly these are automated traffic hits clicking on a...

Over the last few months we have had some seriously dodgy traffic coming in from Poland, about the time it started our ranking dropped from no.1 position and we did not connect the dots immediately. After we caught on to this we wondered why? It looks to me like they are sending a large amount...