Live goes wild for one day

[gwhite]

On a typical day I get about 110 uniques from the live.com search engine, I rank well in my search terms on live.com with several #1 rankings, I have always just assumed that their volume of searches and the typical live user don't match with my site that well. Then, a week ago, I get 12,000 uniques from live.com for a fairly obscure search term 'exercise over 60' in one day. The next day, back to a little over 100 visitors, can anybody think of a reason for one day that there would be such a flood of searches? I have seen media events cause a spike, but then have it followed by a gradual fall off over the next few days until it is back to normal levels, but in 12 years of Internet, nothing like this.

I use Google Analytics to know where the traffic is from and the keywords, I was traveling the day of the spike and didn't get into the raw logs before they got removed.

[polotiger]

Hi gwhite,

Do you think it is possible that they may have linked to that search term from an email or off a page. I have noticed Yahoo doing a lot of this where they will link a homepage link to perform a search. That could explain the sudden rise and fall.

[2fk]

I got reverse result last time when i did checked out my keyword positioning on live...they were just all falling apart..
and another thing that annoys me the most is that it you can't view anymore you're ranking when you do it manually once you hover your mouse on the cached...very bad...

[Martinscholes]

This has happened to a site of mine, not with Live, though. Twice, about a year in between.

Traffic was up about 500%, then slowly drifted down to something a bit higher than normal.

[newtech2009]

I rank well in my search terms on live.com with several #1 rankings, I have always just assumed that their volume of searches and the typical live user don't match with my site that well. Then, a week ago, I get 12,000 uniques from live.com for a fairly obscure search term 'exercise over 60' in one day. The next day, back to a little over 100 visitors, can anybody think of a reason for one day that there would be such a flood of searches? I have seen media events cause a spike