I Would Like To Take This Moment To Thank The Many Bots...

Yes, the bots make me feel special as well, especially when my tweet gets retweeted several times, man do the bots love that! I view it as a reciprocal relationship, I feed them and they move my "view" count up, neither can exist without the other.

When those bots start buying, I'll thank them.

Michel
✈ http://pics.travelnotes.org/.

Bots are people too LOL.

This thread immediately makes me want to watch "I Robot" again.

Yes, it's fun when I post a new painting on my Pinterest page and link it to here. Wham!! many Bot "views". It can be a fun game ;)

Bots make the Internet world go round. The unsung heroes doing all the dirty work for search engines.

lol, Mary, that's exactly what I thought when I found the robot image!

Julie, I thought this were your Oscar accepting speech. LOL

To add to all the BOT views we get..... we COULD all keep viewing our own photos and increase that number!!

It is Alfred :) Can't you tell. LOL

My humor is a little bit off today.
Work was stressing me out so I had to take a little break from it.

I don't think I've ever had one of my tweets retweeted.

Did I mention that I LOVE Beverly Hills - was thinking about sending her/it/him a valentine.

Diana, I occasionally used to scroll through all my images - I have too many now it gets too tedious - and it DOES stimulate the bot swarm. Especially if you scroll through at least several pages.

I think the BOT views do help us get closer to the front pages of searches. Yes?

RoyD - I've had tweets retweeted but it seems that it usually is some business trying to gain followers. I think they believe that if they retweet your tweet then you will start following them.

Diana - sales get you further up in search. And to a lesser extent "activity"
I would guess.

"I think the BOT views do help us get closer to the front pages of searches. Yes? "

Supposedly but my FAA hosted images almost never show up in an image search, Pinterest yes, twitter yes, tumblr quite a bit, BlogSpot a lot, FAA/Pixels almost never.

They are basically the only presence I see anymore! Lol

When I see Kiez, Germany bot, I almost every time get a sale (a real one)..
My thank of the day to Kiez, Germany :)

Oh, and to add, without those lovely bots I wouldn't have more than a million view now!!


Cheers!
Irina
http://www.artirina.com/

Every time I see New York, New York I think of Frank Sinatra. My views are up over 400,000 as of yesterday.

Gotta love the bots - my views are at 364,000 give or take and I will be on this site for 2 years this month

I'm with yea Julie!

I've gotten more than 4,000 views the other day. Majority of them are lovely bots from Beverly Hills, CA. I feel I am watched by all those celebrities ;)

Cheers!
Irina
http://www.artirina.com/

Irina, I get lots from Beverly Hills, I thought the same way.

Have a Great Day!

Randy

Julie, thanks for the chuckle. I always wonder what the real count would be without the bots. I like your image on the post!

yvw Steve.

I know my count would be quite minimal....The Celebrity Bots of Beverly Hills make me feel very important :)

I'm a HUGE fan of the Beverly Hills bots:) But I'm still sticking to my fantasy that it's some celebrity that just can't decide on which prints to buy...;)

I posted a photograph the other day and the bots loved it...over 250 hits in an hour....But then I thought...well, one of the bots must have kept its finger on the like button and forgot to take it off.

What is the record for most views without a sale? In a previous membership (not the current one), I had over 50,000 views and just two sold....

I too thank the bots and everybody else . Cheers.

A bit of bot is always good for the soul :)

"I'm a HUGE fan of the Beverly Hills bots:) But I'm still sticking to my fantasy that it's some celebrity that just can't decide on which prints to buy...;)"

Kori - Love it!!!

Haha, Jennifer - had to give credit to by biggest fans, celebrity bots...but now I'm getting visits from "World". Apparently now I'm world-renowned? Again- going with the fantasy and I'm sticking with it:)

In the last few days, I've noticed that a group of bots strike within the first few hours of posting an image....I've had one image botted with over 200 hits in a few hours, and the other botted with over 100 hits in a few hours. Of course, I know how to suck the bots in but that's another story.

I've had an increase of bots lately, first Wilmington, DE, and now I guess I'm as famous as the rest of you with Beverly Hills checking out my art. However, I've gotten so many per day lately that they hide views that could actually be coming from potential buyers. Question: Does having so many views without sales affect the ranking of the image in FAA searches?

Cheers,
Suzanne

Even the bots aren't looking at mine, so what's your secret Robert?