Unnatural site growth

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Hi guys, there is a site in my country. A scrapper blog with only 10% original content. This site managed in 9 months to get from 0 to 2nd place in Alexa in my country and 1570 Global. How did this happen? We need to find out the technique, because this is going to boost all our rankings and websites.





I've never seen anything like this. Any ideas how could some scrapper blog manage this?

I wont post the link to the website.
#growth #site #unnatural
  • Profile picture of the author MarkHernandez
    I don't how they did it but they would make money hand over fist if they had to sell their growth hacking formula! haha
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    • Profile picture of the author idiots89
      Well I shouldn't tell you this, but...

      ah ef that, better off not spilling any beans.

      hot, hot, hot....FIRE!! That's all I'm going to say.
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  • Profile picture of the author nmwf
    Did he buy the traffic? Like from one of those traffic-selling websites? If this website wasn't mentioned in the media, it was probably hit by millions of purchased IP bots.
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  • Profile picture of the author schnitzelattack
    Got an update on the traffic stats, more growth:


    And here are a few more details:


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  • Profile picture of the author schnitzelattack
    Look like he has a lot of Social traffic. Probably bought a ton of pages with hundreds of thousands followers.

    I wouldn't like to be discovered, or I would have posted which website it is.
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  • Profile picture of the author SeoDust
    It appears to be bot traffic from social media accounts, A lot of the profiles on the facebook page are empty and show no real signs of actual usage. The site was easy to find with your traffic by countries photo
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    • Profile picture of the author schnitzelattack
      Originally Posted by SeoDust View Post

      It appears to be bot traffic from social media accounts, A lot of the profiles on the facebook page are empty and show no real signs of actual usage. The site was easy to find with your traffic by countries photo
      Please send me a PM with the site.
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      • Profile picture of the author Zodiax
        Originally Posted by schnitzelattack View Post

        Please send me a PM with the site.
        The site is Fanpage.gr

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    • Profile picture of the author schnitzelattack
      Originally Posted by SeoDust View Post

      It appears to be bot traffic from social media accounts, A lot of the profiles on the facebook page are empty and show no real signs of actual usage. The site was easy to find with your traffic by countries photo
      How do you know this? Did you use some other advanced tool to figure it?

      Also how can someone use the same adsense id on this site and another 70+ sites? Is it the same person behind all the sites? Btw, I saw a few sites that has the same ID plus one other. Dual IDs on a single site. Isn't this against the Adsense ToS ?
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      • Profile picture of the author Zodiax
        Originally Posted by schnitzelattack View Post

        How do you know this? Did you use some other advanced tool to figure it?

        Also how can someone use the same adsense id on this site and another 70+ sites? Is it the same person behind all the sites? Btw, I saw a few sites that has the same ID plus one other. Dual IDs on a single site. Isn't this against the Adsense ToS ?
        That tool is unreliable.

        The traffic stats are WAY off.

        For example it says that Matthew Woodward gets 1.6million visits when in fact he gets 55,000.

        I don't see what you are getting all flustered about.

        You're mad that your spam sites are getting much attention and ad revenue bra?

        Go back to league of legends man..
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        • Profile picture of the author schnitzelattack
          Originally Posted by Zodiax View Post

          That tool is unreliable.

          The traffic stats are WAY off.

          For example it says that Matthew Woodward gets 1.6million visits when in fact he gets 55,000.

          I don't see what you are getting all flustered about.

          You're mad that your spam sites are getting much attention and ad revenue bra?

          Go back to league of legends man..
          Now that we know that the site is really spammy and bot ridden I can stop searching for answers. For my own business, I need real quality traffic.
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      • Profile picture of the author SeoDust
        Originally Posted by schnitzelattack View Post

        How do you know this? Did you use some other advanced tool to figure it?

        Also how can someone use the same adsense id on this site and another 70+ sites? Is it the same person behind all the sites? Btw, I saw a few sites that has the same ID plus one other. Dual IDs on a single site. Isn't this against the Adsense ToS ?
        No tools, just my brain and my 10 fingers... If you go to each individual facebook profile that has commented on any of their facebook posts you will notice they are all private/empty profiles. Yes it is against Adsense ToS which leads me to this fun fact.
        One of Google's site review teams are human, they are usually called in to review websites that have defeated the auto-ban bots and generated a lot of adsense revenue in a short amount of time. If the bot gets suspicious for any reason it will flag the site for manual review anyway so there's that whole bag of fun to deal with.
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  • Profile picture of the author EugeneWalton
    Wow.. either he started buying traffic like there's no tomorrow or he has got JV's really backing him up
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