RE: Strange...web hit activity.

I've no idea, but generally I'd like to think that people are better than =
that.  Utopian, yes, I know.

Martin

>>> "Barnes, David (D.)" <dbarne20(at)visteon.com> 03/28/02 09:24AM >>>
how hard would it be to write a script to fill the form from a data base =
of
generic answers for the form every 3-4 hours per day.  I mean if your =
going
to go to the trouble of generating false traffic in hopes of milking the
client for more money I would think you would do everything possible to =
make
the traffic look real.

Dave Barnes=20




-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Clifford [mailto:MLC1(at)nrc.gov]=20
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 9:18 AM
To: jimb(at)aci.on.ca; hwg-basics(at)hwg.org; dbarne20(at)visteon.com=20
Subject: RE: Strange...web hit activity.


That could be a very real possibility, however, I'm assuming that since he
had 5+ form submissions per day, they would have to be from geniune users.
I don't know the nature of these forms and what they're purpose was, =
though,
so I can't say for sure.

Martin

>>> "Barnes, David (D.)" <dbarne20(at)visteon.com> 03/28/02 09:03AM >>>
I wonder if it's possible, that they have some type of software setup (a
robot or spider type program) that would automate the process of creating
and using false accounts and random proxy addresses to make it look as if
you were receiving a lot of traffic when if reality it was generated by =
the
company in hopes of convincing you to pay them the $100/month in exchange
for the supposed traffic, which was never really there, and now that you
won't pay they've stopped creating traffic for your site in such a =
fashion.
Don't know if it's really a possibility but in the era of free enterprise =
I
would imagine some people would try anything to make a buck.


just my .02 cents.

Dave Barnes=20




-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Clifford [mailto:MLC1(at)nrc.gov]=20
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 8:36 AM
To: jimb(at)aci.on.ca; hwg-basics(at)hwg.org=20
Subject: Re: Strange...web hit activity.


Hi Jim,

Have you checked to make sure that your website is still listed on the
various search engines for which you payed them to list you on?  If they
have removed your site, then that could very well be the cause for the low
traffic.

By the way, there are many sites that will submit your pages to search
engines for free (not to mention submitted them through each search engine
directly), so I'd say you've been had from the moment you said you paid
$100.

At any rate, I would check the search engines that this company signed you
up for and see whether or not they are still there... that is the best =
thing
I can think of as to why your traffic would drop so drastically.

Hope to help!

Martin

>>> "Jim" <jimb(at)aci.on.ca> 03/27/02 09:15PM >>>
Hi all.

I just noticed that my web page hits have nearly stopped. I wouldn't be
concerned but
before the slowdown I was getting hundreds of hits a day and getting 5+ =
form
emails (from the site)
in my inbox.
Now this is just my opinion but I think what happened is directly related =
to
my cancellation of a subscription to a website listing service which, by =
the
way, had an awful lot of fine print not visible to the naked eye. I
originally agreed to pay them $100 to get my site listed on all the big
search engines. Fine. One month later I get a bill for another $100. There
explanation was, "your site has received a large amount of click through
traffic...we needed another payment to keep the traffic going..." Anyway,
after I got up off the floor and regained my composure, I cancelled the
account and ordered the recent $100 refunded. They agreed. Funny thing is
that since that discussion there has been little or no action on the
website, in particular no-one is filling in any of the various forms on =
the
site.
Has anyone come across this before? Have I been e-blacklisted? Was I being
had?

Thanks and sorry if this is not the right group for this. I will check the
lists and repost if I find a relative list.

Jim

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