All of our clients are showing an increase in traffic from Brazil?

[lfrazer]

Hello,

I am concerned as all 30 of our clients show traffic coming from Brazil-and they are all locally-serving businesses. What's more, the visitors from Brazil is increasing in GA. It's looking more and more like our competitor is trying to thwart our good rankings by using some overseas IPs to mess with traffic. Is there anything I can do? There is no reason why any of our clients would be relevant to Brazil, as they serve only local clients. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

[DennisSeymour]

Hi!

I would look at the source of the traffic first (they have to be coming from somewhere) or IF the site has injected codes.

I've seen this happen before. Injected codes (invisible or not) then they spam you with links and traffic from different countries. Some country specific traffic gets more visibility hence more traffic from there.

I hope it's not but it's better to be safe and check if you were hacked.

I wont point at the competitor yet as that's a very minimal thing in terms of SEO. It just messes up your stats though.