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Why do I get India, Pakistan, Turkey traffic mostly?
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Hi there,
I've been wondering. Why do I get most of the traffic from these countries?
My sites are english, I host in USA. I don't target a thing for those countries traffic, yet I get huge amounts of traffic from these countries.
Any ideas?
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Could it be because I get referrer traffic like that at first?
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I couldn't agree more with what Paulha stated. We get about 5 emails a day from India based SEO and web design companies. All of them are using Gmail accounts, so we can't create rules in our Outlook Exchange to pass those to the Deleted Items folder since our clients also use Gmail. It's a pain, but we see lots of traffic from those countries and Russia as well. Hackers and spammers. They aren't going anywhere anytime soon.
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Check your referral traffic to see what sites the visits are coming from. It could be that you're listed on a load of directories in these countries. If so, contact the webmasters and request removal of your link.
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You get traffic from India and Pakistan because most of web design and SEO companies are located in that part. These companies employ hundreds of IT guys and many of these companies keep browsing internet so that they could send Marketing emails for web development and seo services. Even if you website does not attract local users, people in South Asia do Google and find your site. I am sure you must be getting lot of web development or seo emails if you are running a business.
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Hi, it's difficult to say without knowing anything about your site. Would you be able to share a link to it?
The other possible reason - and I am not saying this is the case - is if you have had any used any overseas backlinking service that could be based in these areas. Could that be the case?
Peter
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