My random blog post got featured by Google

A few days ago I wrote a short blog post about how to prevent email spoofing of your domain.

Suddenly I started seeing hundreds of visitors with the referrer android-app://com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox/https/www.google.com. I had no idea what that means, but I assumed it had something to do with Google Search on mobile. I did remember that they promote blog posts on the Google search homepage sometimes, so I think mine was featured there for some reason.

Today, I logged into my search console and it was actually confirmed that the traffic came from "Discover".

Google says I got 1433 clicks, my own analytics app says 1505 unique visits came from that android-app source.

I just wrote this blog post because I recently encountered this problem and didn'd find a TL;DR on how to solve it, I didn't expect any traffic from it. I just wanted to help others in the same situation.

Fun fact: looking at the stats, out of those 1500 users, 14 checked out my pricing page and one even clicked the buy button, but never purchased.