Fake Visit Numbers?

They're bots. Bots are your friends. They are sent from search engines to sniff out our pages, catalog them and hopefully send visitors here. From the FAA FAQ --

1:I see the same visitor visiting all of my images shortly after I upload them. Should I be worried?

No. That's nothing to worry about. There are lots of automated programs (called web bots) that scan the internet for new webpages.

If you see a lot of visits from the same location, it's just a web bot. Don't worry - web bots are good. Google uses web bots to add new pages to their search results. So do Yahoo, Bing, etc...

http://fineartamerica.com/faqlinks.html?id=14

those are bots, faa has better things to do then to send fake views. if you run out of space uploading, that is your encouragement to pay for the site. premium won't help you sell better. there are certain bots here that are overly aggressive. one might be a proxy server for the site.

---Mike Savad

Thank you Joseph and Mike for putting me straight on this

when i tweet, the first 30 are twitter bots.


---Mike Savad

Shame bots don't carry credit cards with them :)

i would have so much money if that was the case. just a dollar is all i ask. but the bots bring people with wallets. they are the street urchins of old england pulling people in to buy your elixir.

---Mike Savad

Bots are like spiders gathering potential buyers!

True but they seem to leave the web wide open too much so buyers may fall through the bots webs they spin on the web.

Karen, if I find a bot standing at the end of my bed tonight will it force me to buy something on the internet?

no, it will guide you to the site that sells things. if its a google bot it will burrow into your brain, so you should set out traps for the things.


---Mike Savad

Resistance is futile, right Mike?
I wish my bot visitors would produce some buyers for my work.

They are called "droids", I think...

at this time i should know about bots.... not so much next month though.

---Mike Savad

I seem to have plenty of visitors(bots). Do they actually produce sales?

join some groups and that will give you a lot of real visitors too

bots generate views. bots bring back info to the hive, so when someone searches in google or etc, they will find you. that's what a bot does. people generate sales. so you have to advertise out when you can.

---Mike Savad

Graham,

Nice work. Your out of London, Chelsea? Follow the Blues?

Dave

I have never looked at visitors here because they aren't realistic.
Whats the sense

I have over 4,000 hits on one image alone from a bot. I don't know what the obsession is all about, I just know its not human.