Do high-number "web counters" encourage new visitors to investigate a site because it's obviously popular?
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Web counters can be Forged.. I mean we can prefix some number to show the popularity of the site. But it has nothing to do with the popularity. By the way all new sites are discovered with the Search Engines and the Site that attains higher display position in Searching is visited. So all it is depenedent on the Search Engine
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go here, it tells you how to in allthe popular search engines\nhttp://searchenginewatch.com/facts/article.php/2156041\nit is public knowledge what things people are searching for and how many, not illegal, just depends on whether the server wants to bother keeping a list
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quite a large number do,,,,going by my experiences.. the number of people that just click without thinking is amazing.\n\n\nstill keeps me in a job, fixing their mistakes..\n\nand keeps the hackers happy too
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the amount of hits you get will increase gradually over time, it also depends how much and what content you have on a site.search engines bring a lot of hits
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Your best bet is probably to hit the most popular search engines out the with the names of your friends and see what comes back.
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The problem here is relevancy -- what's to guarantee that the sites you link to and who link back to you are relevant to your own?\n\nWithout relevancy you're just getting random traffic -- this isn't an optimization, it's just another way to lead customers on a walk around the web and annoy them when they can't find what they want.\n\nI'd post more but I didn't read too deeply into the website. It's more work than I prefer to do on this website, and anyway, you'd think that they'd explain the relevancy question in bold type on the front page instead of talking about how much traffic you can get.  That's very 1990's, banner-ad marketing-thought, not at all appropriate for the current age.
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I don't know who created it. It's not an actual rule, but it makes sense. Most visitor won't go more than two clicks into your website. It's only three clicks because it's hard to fit that many links on the first two clicked pages.
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Alexa.com can be very useful. However the website has to have a certain level of traffic to catch their attention.\n\nSimply enter the URL of the site you wish to lookup, then select the "Traffic Rankings" tab.
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If it's legit, voting for a website may help the website, advertisers, and the voting system know how many people enjoy that website.\n\nFor instance, if a poll is being run by CompuRag - the world famous (fictitious!) computer magazine (which gives out awards every year in their equally famous [fictitious] "Best Of Last Year" issue) you can probably guess that they just want users opinions on which sites they visit, who'se the best, etc...\n\n(Assuming that our fictitious magazine is legit, they may give out an award which the website will proudly present, though the website may also put that award to use by bumping up their advertising charges for the next year - still, worthy, and legit.)\n\nIF, on the other hand, a company like e-Spam (equally fictitious as the earlier mentioned CompuRag) is NOT a legit company (or merely posing as one,) the moment you click on the link, you may be deluged with pop-ups. What's worse, is they may take you to a seemingly-legit polling site, ask you a few questions about the website that you like, then ask for your e-mail address, (Anonymous Indeed!) which they'll use to spam you 'till the cows come home.\n\nOf course, the more awards a website can garner, the better off it is. (The more money they'll receive from SOMEone... either a legit company via click-throughs, {and having an award says "we get x-thousand visitors a day, etc..." means there might be more / better targeted advertising...} or via illegitimate means - both "help" their website.)\n\nSo, if you want to help out your favorite website, go ahead! It's not likely a legit website will resort to pulling a fast one like agreeing to be polled for by a company that wants to sign you up for spam! (Hey! Even if they are, just don't give your e-mail address!) Other than that, turn on your pop-up blocker, click there, and see what happens! If you recognize the pollster, you may well be doing your favorite website a favor!\n\nGood Luck!
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As it stands you don't there is an automated server is busy message tagged as the sites index page.  Unless there is a backdoor for snoopy fed reasons.
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Chk out http://www.ritecounter.com \n\nApart from being cool, it tracks a lot of info regarding your visitors. A really interesting one.\n\nOther option is Google Analytics\nhttp://www.google.com/analytics but you might need to wait for the invitation
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The more "key words" you use in your page, the more likely it will come up in a search. If you look, sometimes you'll see sites that have what appear to be random words grouped together somewhere on the page, that's why they do it. Also, for a small fee, you can pay to have your site be hit a minimum times per day.
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Tracking you website should let you know how frequently it is used and what pages are viewed.  While sales give you some idea, if a product is desirable but overpriced, you will probably see a lot of views and not many sales.
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You'd be surprised to know how many people DO come across blogs by accident. Blogspot actually has a feature where you click "Next Blog" to see a random blog. So type your heart out (with some sense) and who knows? If you do want people to know about your blog immediately you can spread the URL of your page around. Most people click on whatever looks interesting.
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A hit is made to any other page from within the site and a visit is made from outside the site. Therfore your hits will always outnumber your visits because search engines trawl all pages
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Yes, it's usually grouped by relevance, but also, in some cases, web sites pay to have their results listed near the top of the page, thus making it more likely that you will visit their site in search of the information you need.
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it is called a  web counter