GOOGLE.COM MYSTERY

Inside world of blogging is a mysterious place. Sometime ago, I was tooling long with a relatively low number of page views when suddenly the number about doubled. I checked “Audience”, a selection under “Stats” on Google.Com dashboard. I was shocked to see I had more page views from Russia than I had from the United States that day. That trend continued for a few weeks with an associated increase in total page views. I could see no outstanding change in “Traffic Sources”, also a selection under the Google Stats program, which allowed me to see the generic URL's of face page viewers. Like happened with Russia, I still have a small residue of page views from Russia. The same thing happened again this time it was Germany. Again, the increase persisted for several weeks with a lingering residue of page views. Just yesterday, again, I had a sudden increase in page views but this time the rush was or at least appeared to be from China.

The obvious question is, “What is going on?” Is it really viewers in Russia, Germany, and China or is it some hacker in the United States used a phony ISP address? Is it some sort of pirate? Are they legitimate hits? Does it have something to do with some type of international crawler? In addition to the international pattern of hits, I have one post that is huge in numbers of page views; the number of views for this Nov 7, 2012 post (Abortion Debate Folly) is higher than any other post that seems to be somehow associated with the international shifts. In addition, I have something like 35 comments made on that one post. The comments seemed rational and not just filled with a bunch of dirty words. A pro-abortion ad appears under that post so Adsense seems to be benefiting from the increase in page views but I do not see any increase in revenue from that sources. Something is wrong. Can anyone tell me what it might be?

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