This has to be wrong right??

[Jasonp]

check this..

http://i40.tinypic.com/dlkrwn.jpg

with no promotion etc -bigeyes-

 

[inpaqt]

Maybe when you installed phpBB and showed that theme you found. That was around that time

 

[Jasonp]

Im on about how many hits ive had with no promotion i own that domain

 

[inpaqt]

I am aware you own that domain name.
I am talking about this: viewtopic.php?f=26&t=13119

 

[Jasonp]

yeah but i wouldn't get 15k hits from that topic lol

 

[inpaqt]

~lol~ 15K?
I didn't realise it was that much, WTF?

 

[Ascent]

Or you bought paid visitors. 🙂

 

[Jasonp]

Lol i dont have a clue how it getting so much traffic 😛 im going to add some content someday soon and maybe bring in a few more ! XD

 

[inpaqt]

It's PR 0, shouldn't it be N/A if it has had no advertising?

 

[Jasonp]

Its PRO becuase google has indexed it, from when i had phpbb3 installed.

 

[FWhite]

I've also got a weird topic on my webmaster forum that has received over 1200 views since December 08,2008, and it's the only 1000+ views thread on the entire forum.

 

[CyberFreak]

It is probably bots (search and spam) as if it is indexed by google these bots will find it and will index it and count towards the hits. There are some robots that go around to domains on the internet and look for files for software that you don't even have installed and they are programmed to spam or exploit that particular file.

 

[Kino]

Yeah that what I'm thinking. Anyway congrats on having so many views.

 

[Murder he Wrote]

A good way of seeing if they're bots or not is to put a robots.txt file into the root directory of your file system (click here for more info). Any hits you get after that would be from real people who have either read this topic, yourself or somebody has randomly typed your domain into the address bar to see if something would come up.

 

[SpacewardAsh]

wow congrats, my site bandwidth is considerably high, I've barely promoted, and don't have many members so I'm guessing bots are sucking up my site bandwidth...not really paid attention to how many hits my site has actually had

 

[CyberFreak]

Most hits on sites are probably generated by bots. There is no real way to stop them other then using robots.txt to limit them but even then not all bots follow that either.