Go Article got 9,000 views in 1 week. How did this happen?

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I just noticed an article on Go Articles directory that was published on 11/22/2010, and it has been read nearly 9,000 times, according to GoArticles stats. I read it and it is mediocre, blatantly promoting vitamins and a vitamin site. The Signature Box only has one link and isn't anything special or unusual. I want to know how a mediocre article gets nearly 9,000 reads in a few days. I started article marketing 3 months ago and I want to know, what is it I don't know?
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  • Profile picture of the author Ron Ansy
    Hi Carolyn,
    I know where you coming from and it is strange enough to get 9,000 views in just a week. I do article marketing myself.
    One possible reason could be that this person is promoting this article itself on other websites or social media which gets vast exposure.
    And considering this article is on goarticle not even on ezinearticles(which is the best), it is highly unlikely that this article itself is getting soo much views but again it could be rich with high searched keywords or summin..
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    • Profile picture of the author thomasburke
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      • Profile picture of the author himanuzo
        Is this service safe for GoArticles? Good service?

        Originally Posted by thomasburke View Post

        They may have used some service like below. I wouldn't recommend
        it, but these services are available, though I don't know if they
        are effective or not.

        xxxxxxxxx will provide 50,000 Guaranteed and Safe EZINE article views for $25
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      • Profile picture of the author carolynblake
        Thank you all. This makes sense as to how they could get thousands of reads in 5 days...paying outsourcing to click and "read." I decided when I started my affiliate marketing business I will not get money from anyone in any way that I would not want to be done to me. So, slow and steady wins the race. There just are no legitimate make a million overnight tricks. At least I have never encountered one, or anyone else who has. I want to build secure, long term sites. Thanks for the prompt answers.
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      • Profile picture of the author Chris Worner
        Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

        Some people send paid-to-click traffic to their articles just to inflate the viewing figure. The "viewers" often weren't actually looking and often don't speak English anyway. You know the sort of thing I mean? "10,000 visitors for $5" - that kind of "traffic". (Some article directories will show people the door for the doing this - others not. I hear that EZA often take it seriously and close accounts for this).
        I think you will find that the ones that get caught by EZA are the stupid ones who have those views performed in the space of 5 minutess(you get the picture)

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  • I don't know why people do it, surely a quick look by the moderators on whether the page is ranking or not and where the source of traffic is coming from would give it away.

    And all either to get on the most viewed page or to promote some scam product stating they know how to get 'x' amount of views.

    Doesn't beat a great ranking article, a social media sucking article or any of the sort that drives thousands and hundreds of thousands.

    Much better when it happens to your own website though xD the stories I have read with people hoping they would get on the front page of digg or something and then not being ready for it and the surge of traffic taking down their webserver and an angry message from their host.

    Surely if they thought they could achieve it they would have prepared xD

    Anyway I've gone slightly off topic!
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  • Profile picture of the author Rex.T
    There's a reason why people do it. I do agree 9k per week seems like an overkill but getting on the most viewed page certainly has its benefits. It belongs to the dark side though aka BlackHat.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marketing Ignite
    You can manipulate these sorts of things or it could be that he has promoted this article as well on various places....
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  • Profile picture of the author wtatlas
    If you take a look at sites such as elance.com and similar you will often see people posting jobs for others to click on their articles, etc. It obviously pays to have an article ranked highly.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sachine
    You should not need to worry about such things... as long as you are making money with your articles, does not matter if other article gets more views...
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  • Profile picture of the author profitsforall
    using proxies and automated software to bump up the views to get on the most viewed page probably.
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  • Profile picture of the author Luke McCormack
    Probably trying to get in the most viewed category, can be achieved by multiple pinging and scrapebox. Or as said above paying people to visit.

    Regards

    Nigel
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrea Wilson
    Probably, the views are faked. I dont know, and Im not sure but 9000 views in a single week is too much and kinda unbelievable unless the topic is super hot/in trend.


    Andrea
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    • Profile picture of the author thomasburke
      Has anyone ever received over 1000 views in their first week after submitting a new article to ezine articles, goarticles or any other article directories?
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      • Profile picture of the author John Lenaghan
        Originally Posted by thomasburke View Post

        Has anyone ever received over 1000 views in their first week after submitting a new article to ezine articles, goarticles or any other article directories?
        If you have a decent sized list or a good following on Twitter, it's not all that hard to generate a lot of views quickly by promoting the article to them.

        But if the article in question here is not very good quality, it's unlikely that's how it was done.

        It's more likely paid traffic like a few other people mentioned. It depends on the source, but some of the paid to click stuff is hard for the article directories to identify as such, because the clicks come from various IPs and locations - not all one place.

        Getting your article on the most viewed page has one big advantage - it can drive the pagerank up for your article since it has so many links coming from all the other pages that show the top articles.

        So over time, your article can rank better in Google et al and generate more traffic.

        It's definitely on the black hat side of the marketing spectrum though, and is against the TOS of many (most?) article directories.

        John
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  • Profile picture of the author pheonix44
    Sometimes it can be legit, one time I posted some content on a social bookmarking site and got over 7000 visitors to my site in one day. To this day I do not know why it happened or how it happened, because my bookmark was not shown in search engines. The content itself was something I did not put that much thought into, I was able to make several hundred dollars that day. I have not been able to replicate it sense.
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  • Profile picture of the author thomasburke
    What are ligitamate ways you can boost the views of your articles? If you have a list is sending an email to your list asking them to check out your ezine articles (or whatever) article an ok thing to do?
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    • Profile picture of the author John Lenaghan
      Originally Posted by thomasburke View Post

      What are ligitamate ways you can boost the views of your articles? If you have a list is sending an email to your list asking them to check out your ezine articles (or whatever) article an ok thing to do?
      Sure, it's really no different than emailing them and letting them know you've got a new blog post on your own site. As long as the article's quality is good, this can work well.

      John
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  • Profile picture of the author ayomyde
    I sense foul play especially when you said its on Go Article, may be some black hat method was adapted to get that kind of view in a week.
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    • Profile picture of the author Devid Farah
      Hi Carolyn,

      There are several possibilities as to how that person got so many views. The article could have gotten featured on one of the top pages of Go Article.

      The author is probably doing self promotion.

      The author could have a large reader base.

      The author could be paying to send traffic to the articles.

      The author could be a genius that was able to make all of us think that it was just a plain article, but actually it is quite amazing.

      Whatever the secret is there is no way to know unless you actually get in contact with the person who wrote the article.
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    I want the make millions overnight secret
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  • Profile picture of the author Colin Palfrey
    It is certainly not impossible to have an article receive 9000 views in a week.

    I haven't had any promotional articles do that, but...

    Non-promotional articles I have written have done that (well once lol).

    My father writes articles that he promotes through twitter, and he regularly breaks 10,000 readers in his first week. Ironically he doesn't promote anything in them, and just does it for the love of writing them. I have tried to bring him to the dark side, but so far he has no interest.

    If you want a readership like that you need to work the social-networking sites, and build a fan-base. Or you could just send fake traffic, but I don't really see the point in that.
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    • Profile picture of the author gvannorman
      Originally Posted by Colin Palfrey View Post

      It is certainly not impossible to have an article receive 9000 views in a week.

      I haven't had any promotional articles do that, but...

      Non-promotional articles I have written have done that (well once lol).

      My father writes articles that he promotes through twitter, and he regularly breaks 10,000 readers in his first week. Ironically he doesn't promote anything in them, and just does it for the love of writing them. I have tried to bring him to the dark side, but so far he has no interest.

      If you want a readership like that you need to work the social-networking sites, and build a fan-base. Or you could just send fake traffic, but I don't really see the point in that.
      Maybe your dad should put together a ebook on Twitter. I say this because I have yet to have any success with promoting on Twitter. I would love to learn the secrets though.
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      • Profile picture of the author Colin Palfrey
        Originally Posted by gvannorman View Post

        Maybe your dad should put together a ebook on Twitter. I say this because I have yet to have any success with promoting on Twitter. I would love to learn the secrets though.
        I don't think he has any interest in IM. The secret though, is just to talk to other people on there and be interested in their lives.
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