This is bizarre... My site is currently being visited by nearly 10 times the normal number of anonymous browsers, and this has been going on for several hours. I am seeing 60 to 80 anonymous users when the norm is 2 to 5. What is going on???
By cataloging the IP addresses of the anonymous browsers, I see that each one is on for only a short time -- several cycles of the Who's Online page. Each one seems to be visiting random posts.
I posted a message asking anyone to please email me to let me know where they got a link to my site, but not one of them seems to be visiting that post. So I am thinking that somehow, we have a web robot hitting my site, using an older index of all the links. But the odd thing is that it is using continually changing IP addresses.
Can a search spider change IP addresses like that? Or could it be infected computers from all over hitting the site, and then reporting keywords back to a "mother ship" site?
Very curious....
