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Catherine Wilson

1 Year Ago

Visitors To My Website

I am wondering why so many visitors to my website are from China and United Kingdom. I have not gotten any sales from those countries. Any suggestions?
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Floyd Snyder

1 Year Ago

Bots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_bot

These are indexing bots, not real people.

 

Doug Swanson

1 Year Ago

A lot of hits are from those bots, which will visit frequently and repeatedly. Unfortunately, a large percent of hits are bots and not living humans who want to buy art. The other side of this is that bots are how your web pages get included in search sites, so they are how you can get seen in searches.

 

Mike Savad

1 Year Ago

Generally you won't, i'm not even sure china allows anyone but bots to see this site. They censor a lot of stuff for some reason. But those places are all bots of some kind.

You can't do anything about them, i'd just ignore seeing the countries, it doesn't help you sell.


----Mike Savad

 

David Dehner

1 Year Ago

Hi Catherine,

Those are Bots or Web Crawlers, They are good things.

Web crawlers go by many names, including spiders, robots, and bots, and these descriptive names sum up what they do. They crawl across the World Wide Web to index pages for search engines.

Search engines don’t magically know what website pages exist on the Internet. The programs have to crawl and index them before they can deliver the right pages for keywords and phrases, or the words people use to find a useful page.

Most Bots are in locations with large populations – So some of the visitors from those locations are real potential customers.

 

Catherine Wilson

1 Year Ago

Thanks so much for all replies. Now I understand.

 

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