FROM THE FORUMS #5 chaumi 30 August 2025, 4:51 p.m. Private Member Could it be domain buyer traffic clicking through? That might explain the direct traffic, assuming the listings aren’t hyperlinked. Not my world - flipping/selling - so don’t know if that sort of traffic happens, at any real volume anyway. Anyway, yeah it’ll all be guesswork unless you can see what’s really happening. Intriguing from the way you describe it, but there will be an explanation. “ Reply With Quote #6 Elliot_FreeSpins 30 August 2025, 5:05 p.m. Private Member That could account for a small portion of it, but the volume of prospective buyers is normally super low. A few hundred every couple of months maybe? So probably accounts for a bit but not the visitors we’re seeing. I’ll get some more data and update the thread here. Thanks for all the responses! Great forum so far! “ Reply With Quote #7 TheGooner 30 August 2025, 5:30 p.m. Private Member One of the biggest sources of (unwanted) traffic at the moment appears to be the AI bots - especially the ChatGPT bot. We are producing about 20 new pages per day, so there is always something to scan which may be why we attracted them initially, but they’re voracious and we are getting around 10,000 bot hits per day and as many as 1,000 hits on the same item in a day. They’ll typically run through the site reading any and all news posts and old linked items. They come from hundreds of IPs, over several different countries but the U.K. and U.S. are common - and they’ll follow most links recording clicks. For the most part, they behave like a hyperactive group of visitors. We’ve banned them via user agent now giving them a 429 response (too many requests) ... but still they pop-up at 4-5 per minute. There seems to be no way to tell OpenAI or any of these bots to f@%k off - I mean what point is there to hit the same page 1,000+ times per day? At peak (earlier this month), they were responsible for 70-80% of our daily requests. Check your control panel and find the visitors section and look over the User Agents - you’ll quickly see whether it’s bots and which ones. “ Reply With Quote #8 Elliot_FreeSpins 30 August 2025, 7:49 p.m. Private Member Hey TheGooner, that’s very interesting/frustrating and I expect I’m experiencing something similar. I expect you’re 100% right and it’s bots. Just got Wordfence setup so should have some data on that shortly. Thanks and appreciate the insights! Very keen to cut through the noise. “ Reply With Quote What’s interesting is, before I decided to develop this domain, my plan was to just flip it. I won it at auction. It’s still listed on third party marketplaces, and the listing has quickly become one of my most viewed domains by a long shot out of 200+ names. So, someone is looking for the domain, even if it’s not direct type in. (edit - meant to add, this reason alone was why I chose to develop it over all the other casino related .COM domain I have). It’s very strange, because I agree with you on all points, it’s an obscure TLD and it’s not something you’d directly type in. I think my next move will be as allfreechips suggested and get HotJar setup and see where people are clicking (or bots) and try and separate the wheat from the chaff. “ Reply With Quote 16 GPWAtimes.org
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