Visitors from Montara, CA

[johnsonbird]

I have a website. Normally it has 20-30 direct visits and 500+ search engine visits per day.

But on Dec. 27th my website suddenly had 459 direct visits (273 new visitors and 186 returning visitors) that comes from Montara, CA.

And on the same day my search engine visits dropped to 90.

On Dec. 28th my website had 22 direct visits, but the search engine visits is still no more than 100.

Does anyone what are the visitors from Montara, CA? Did they make my drop in traffic?

Thanks.

[darkyl]

Did a quick search and seems you're not alone receiving lots of visits from these guys.
Looks like a spider or crawler of some sort.

I don't know if and how this is related to your organic traffic drop, others have reported visits from the same location without any decrease in the usual traffic.

Some users traced the ip and found the company name, you can find it with a google search.

I suggest you block their IP.

[robzilla]

Kintiskton LLC, by any chance? I've seen these before. Look up that company name on Google and you'll find quite a few pages with more complaints. The IP of theirs that I blocked was 65.208.151.*. No listing in the Yellow Pages, no company website. It all looks a bit shady to me, so I suggest you block them if the hits keep coming.

[edited by: Robert_Charlton at 12:07 am (utc) on Dec. 30, 2008]
[edit reason] edited IP# [/edit]

[incrediBILL]

Funny this topic suddenly keeps coming up as we have an ongoing thread about this topic in the Spiders forum:
[webmasterworld.com...]

I doubt there's any direct correlation with their visit and your sudden drop in traffic which could easily be attributed to the holiday season. If your traffic doesn't resume in early January then I would seriously start looking for answers.