Re:How we got 100,000 visitors without noticing
by RBr on Saturday October 02, 2010 @10:32PM
(#1751924)
The short form if don't want to read the entire post is summarized with this snip:
"By some algorithmic oddity, the historious cache actually ranked higher than the site (which turned out to be the most popular free sms service in Brazil), so anyone who searched for "free sms" in Brazil ended up on the historious page!"
In short, Google ranked an archive page (historious) higher then the content. Google corrected this problem, presumably automatically, 3 days after it happened.
"By some algorithmic oddity, the historious cache actually ranked higher than the site (which turned out to be the most popular free sms service in Brazil), so anyone who searched for "free sms" in Brazil ended up on the historious page!"
In short, Google ranked an archive page (historious) higher then the content. Google corrected this problem, presumably automatically, 3 days after it happened.