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26,000 Download Requests For This One Article - Crazy

by John W.G.
14 replies
Looking at an article on goarticles.com that was written toward the ending of August.

There is nothing special about the article from what I can tell.

But it has over 16,000 votes and has been requested over 23,000 times. Now that's crazy for being 2 months old.

The article is at:
http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=595417

How'd he do that?
#article #cheating #marketer
  • Profile picture of the author MaryK
    Wish I knew the answer to that one. If you ever find out, or anyone else finds out please let me know. Provided the method is legal, I'd give it a shot. Have to say though, I doubt the author is using legal tactics. That is an incredible unbelievable etc. etc. amount of votes and requests. Not being mathmatically minded, I cannot even fathom how many of each that is a day.
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    • Profile picture of the author Eric Lorence
      Probably a simple piece of software or a bot, the same kind that spider your own web pages to social bookmark.
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      • Profile picture of the author Meanna Blog
        Originally Posted by Eric Lorence View Post

        Probably a simple piece of software or a bot, the same kind that spider your own web pages to social bookmark.
        Is that legal?
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        • Profile picture of the author Eric Lorence
          It's usually against TOS, but illegal- probably not.
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      • Profile picture of the author John W.G.
        Originally Posted by Eric Lorence View Post

        Probably a simple piece of software or a bot, the same kind that spider your own web pages to social bookmark.
        That's what I was thinking but you've got to wonder why he's not
        doing it with his other articles.

        I've seen some other articles with similar results but with those
        authors also it's not happening with their other articles.
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  • Profile picture of the author JJ-Undercover
    He gamed goarticles somehow.

    There is no way you get 16,000 votes out of a total 23,000 views. Getting 1 vote per 1,000 views (23 total for this article) would still be on the high side.
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  • Profile picture of the author kkchoon
    He just hit a jackpot...! Check his name for other articles, nothing special.
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    • Profile picture of the author John S. Rhodes
      The follow up question is whether or not he
      was able to capitalize on that traffic, or was
      it just lost to blowing winds...

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  • Profile picture of the author talfighel
    The stats there may be legal but I think that it may be a mistake.

    It is probable a software thing.

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  • Profile picture of the author MaryK
    I know what a spider is - or rather what it does - but wonder if it is legal to do what he is doing. Wouldn't mind those stats though but want to do everything legally and fairly!
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  • Profile picture of the author softtouch
    It got him onto page 3 of Google for "Puerto Vallarta" out of 10,600,000 competing sites for exact phrase.

    Not too bad!

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  • Profile picture of the author Gary Huynh
    Looking at those huge paragraphs, I would never read the article let alone vote for it. As previously mentioned, I think it's software.

    There is software to create fake comments and votes for YouTube videos. Just about any site can be gamed if you know some programming.
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    • Profile picture of the author howudoin
      This had to be a software thing...
      No way that you could get so many votes in such a short span given the quality and layout of that article.

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  • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
    Gives his article a nice prominent link on their PR6 home page.

    It's cheating!

    I would never let that happen. He'd be quick history.

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