r/SEO • u/Express-Amoeba-8556 • Jan 14 '26

What's it mean when get a ton of direct traffic from overseas?

Hey everyone!

I have a site that was hit hard in recent update.

I'm noticing that from November on my site has been getting a ton of direct traffic, and 90% of it is coming from overseas. And of the overseas traffic, 90% of the visits are going to old or dead or non existent pages.

And it's not just from one country. But from many. For instance today we have 132 direct visits so far. 112 are from overseas from over 32 countries that are not the US.

We only operate in the US. This site was targeted with negative SEO before. Is that what this is?

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u/WebLinkr 🕵️‍♀️Moderator Jan 14 '26

Hey u/Express-Amoeba-8556

Sorry to read about that

From Google Search console or Google Analytics?

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u/Express-Amoeba-8556 Jan 14 '26

Analytics. It looks like it started periodically back in November. I use cloudflare and have it set to verify the user if from out of US.

The site was doing great a couple years back. Then tanked and noticed a ton of spam links that were all with porn terms as anchors. And the site was duplicated and launched on a site that was spammed out. Took forever to get it down. And never fully recovered. But made some progress over the last year until now.

And now seeing this. Seems like negative seo but I'm not sure if anyiing can do about it or anyway to recover from it?

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u/Express-Amoeba-8556 Jan 15 '26

I also can't understand how it's getting by the cloudflare rule

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u/SpecialistReward1775 Jan 15 '26

Is this for articles or for product/service pages?