Website traffic reading is fun and sometimes mysterious. Today alone, this post - received over 10K visits- but when I look at the sources of the traffic - it all looks like this:

mail.google.com
webmail.aol.com
facebook.com
us.mg2.mail.yahoo.com
us.mg4.mail.yahoo.com
us.mg201.mail.yahoo.com
webmail.att.net
co117w.col117.mail.live.com

Or, it shows in Google Analytics as "direct" traffic - which just means that it can't tell where it comes from.

My deduction is that it's from one of those mass forwarded email chains - and the "direct" would be from non-web mail clients like Outlook that don't supply a referrer.

For the month, this page alone has done 70k+ pageviews.



But it doesn't compare to this post which has done 94K pageviews for the month and has similar mail client source page stats.

Has anyone received one of these - what I can only assume are mass chain emails with VideoSift content? If so please let me know - I'd be curious to see what it's about.