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..

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!

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.

You can manipulate these sorts of things or it could be that he has promoted this article as well on various places....

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.

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...

using proxies and automated software to bump up the views to get on the most viewed page probably.

scrapebox baby

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

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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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.

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?

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.

I want the make millions overnight secret

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.