Mysterious Direct traffic Appearing

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socialnetwork0utlaw

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Hey, my website is 2 weeks old and I used to get arround 10-20 users a day until yesterday. Suddenly people started entering directly as Analytics show. Yesterday and today I have around 80 users and I cannot understand where they saw my site at. Note that this is not google traffic but Direct? Somebody know what is going on cuz i am confused? :/
 
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did you share you website in any social media?
I know IG traffic shows up as direct, I can say also some of the twitter traffic shows up as direct.
Also the direct traffic can be bots.
 
Well I have FB and Twitter but I haven't done anything special there and I have only few fans. I am pretty sure these are not bots, because they come from various locations and i have 5 new registered users in the site. I posted a topic in yahoo group but the traffic came 12 hours after that. The users are almost 100% new visitors. :/ Actually I can't even find my yahoo group message anymore. I also searched for my exact domain in google from last 2 days - nothing appears.

Edit: Ok, i found my yahoo post and it has a direct link - traffic from there would be shown as reffered from yahoo and according to G analytics, i don't have even 1 visitor from there

PP what is "IG" traffic?
 
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socialnetwork0utlaw said:
Well I have FB and Twitter but I haven't done anything special there and I have only few fans. I am pretty sure these are not bots, because they come from various locations and i have 5 new registered users in the site. I posted a topic in yahoo group but the traffic came 12 hours after that. The users are almost 100% new visitors. :/ Actually I can't even find my yahoo group message anymore. I also searched for my exact domain in google from last 2 days - nothing appears.

Edit: Ok, i found my yahoo post and it has a direct link - traffic from there would be shown as reffered from yahoo and according to G analytics, i don't have even 1 visitor from there

PP what is "IG" traffic?
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I'm guessing IG is instagram traffic. But it is quite possible that that traffic comes from different bots. It's not unusual at all.
 
If he didn't buy bots why would they be coming?
 
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