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Thanks for your responses guys.

What troubles me is that the pages per visit is just 1, the avg time on site from these visits just 3 seconds and then a huge bounce rate, making me believe that it could be an attack.

However there is no common landing page - i thought this maybe the homepage if i was under attack.

In a normal month we will receive 10,000 direct visits across 3,000 pages - this month it's 24,000 visits across 9,500 pages!

Even if these were genuine US citizens surely the odd hundred or so would click on additional pages before realising it was the wrong site?

I don't understand it.

Hi all,

My UK website usually gets around 10,000 direct (Direct in Analytics) visits per month however for August this has shot up to 24,000! However the majority of these direct visits seem to be coming from the US and as a result the bounce rate is through the roof, 84%!

Why would my UK based site suddenly be receiving huge amounts of US visits? Any ideas?

Hi all,

I'm experiencing something very odd with my website ranking at the moment.

My homepage is fluctuating in rank for my main keyword by 10 pages every day and night.

So, during the day i am on page 14, 15 or 16 for my main keyword yet by night i am on page 5 or 6. This trend has continued for the past 7 days now and i can't quite understand why this is.

I'm using pagewash dot net to carry out manual searches and a ranking tool - both of which produce exactly the same result.

Does anyone have any experience of this or why this is happening?

My domain is around 8 years old and has around 50,000 pages.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, thanks for the reply.

I'm using the manual rank track www.seomoz.org/rank-tracker and despite it saying that the next update is so many days away i check my rankings each day and there is fluctuation on a daily basis, so i'm not quite sure how it works.

I monitor several keywords on several domains and i have found that rank tracker gives me one result yet when searching via Google myself (on different machines) i get a different result.

I've tried several devices on different networks so there is no chance that Google is remembering my searches as such and i ensure that i am always signed out of my account. All devices provide the same results yet Rank Tracker provides a completely different result.

It's as though Rank Tracker is a day ahead or something. Can anyone shed any light for me please?