Does anyone use getclicky.com?

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why is it that get clicky doesn't show all the visitors to my site? the reason I ask that is because I get so many comments waiting to be moderated from different people on my site and yet clicky shows no visitors to my site. Any one knows why?
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  • Profile picture of the author Cram
    Originally Posted by eeeasyas12345 View Post

    why is it that get clicky doesn't show all the visitors to my site? the reason I ask that is because I get so many comments waiting to be moderated from different people on my site and yet clicky shows no visitors to my site. Any one knows why?
    have you try to ask this question on
    Forums » Goals are not being tracked accurately | Clicky

    Do you have other tracking or analytics in place?

    There may also be using a script blocker.
    hard to say.
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  • Profile picture of the author gpwilson
    You need to deal this issue with getclicky.com. It may happen because of technical problem or there are some obvious reason behind that.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan Grossman
    Just because a comment was submitted doesn't mean someone visited your site. Spam bots are sending an HTTP POST request directly to the comment script. That doesn't involve an actual browser ever visiting any page of your site where it'd load the Clicky script. On most blogs, most of the comments are automated spam, not from real visitors.
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    • Profile picture of the author eeeasyas12345
      Originally Posted by Dan Grossman View Post

      Just because a comment was submitted doesn't mean someone visited your site. Spam bots are sending an HTTP POST request directly to the comment script. That doesn't involve an actual browser ever visiting any page of your site where it'd load the Clicky script. On most blogs, most of the comments are automated spam, not from real visitors.
      Are you trying to tell me that all the comments I am getting are submitted by spam bots?
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      • Profile picture of the author john-7665
        Originally Posted by eeeasyas12345 View Post

        Are you trying to tell me that all the comments I am getting are submitted by spam bots?
        This is one possibility. The best option is to send a ticket to getclicky and they will be able to clear your situation. You will keep doubting until you will get a straight answer from them.
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      • Profile picture of the author Dan Grossman
        Originally Posted by eeeasyas12345 View Post

        Are you trying to tell me that all the comments I am getting are submitted by spam bots?
        Yes, virtually 100% of the comments on your blog are spam.

        Let's take an example: http://www.childrenbedstories.com/sc...rip-for-victo/

        Comment #1 that you replied to: copy and paste it in quotes into Google, the same comment was automatically submitted to 1.8 million other blogs

        Comment #2 appears on over 600,000 other blogs

        Comment #3 appears on over 300,000 other blogs

        Comment #4 which you replied to appears on over 2 million other blogs

        Comment #5 which you replied to appears on over 200,000 other blogs

        Comment #6 which you replied to appears on over 1 million other blogs

        Comment #9 which you replied to appears on over 900,000 other blogs

        I couldn't verify 3 of the comments were submitted elsewhere, but they look like spam too. The people you're replying to are not actual people and they'll never see your replies.

        Once you know what to look for you'll see that such spam is easy to identify: none of these comments say anything that references the specific article/story they replied to. None of these comments say anything that isn't generic and wouldn't apply to virtually any post. All of these comments filled in the website field, and all of them put a set of keywords in the website name field instead of a website name. The spam exists to build backlinks with the keywords they want to rank better on search engines with.

        Clicky isn't missing any of your real visits, don't waste their time submitting a ticket.
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  • Profile picture of the author Justin Lavoie
    ^^ oh god, reality check

    What kind of comments are you getting? Stuff related to your article or general comments with all kind of links?
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  • Profile picture of the author apoorv.parijat
    Dan has said all that you need to know. If it's a wordpress blog, you should perhaps install some plugins that can mark these comments as spam, or if there's too many of them and you don't really want them, block them altogether.

    I do that because such comments send unnecessary requests to the server. They are marked as spam but they still have to be deleted and I don't want to delete 100s of comments every week.

    Got a little sidetracked there... you don't need to contact getclicky. These "visitors" aren't real people anyway.
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  • Profile picture of the author Fraggler
    Have a look at implementing Facebook comments to replace the wordpress comments. This takes care of the spam and will also help build your social profile. I think your content will work great with some Facebook exposure to your target market.
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