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please advise guys
thanks
Every tuesday I write myself a check for $1000 and cash it.
I'm guessing your thinking that generating fake traffic to your site will somehow increase your search engine ranking - but it won't.
Why do you want to increase "hits" to your website?
> any software?
Ya, there are alot of browsers out there - start clicking?
All sarcasm aside, what would this accomplish? Rich is right: it would be roughly like writing yourself checks to make yourself rich. It just doesn't work that way. These would be completely useless hits that would only create a drag on your server. Most webmasters try to *avoid* getting hits like this. You really only want three types of visits that I can think of (I'm sure people can think of others, but that's not the point):
1. Visits by search engine bots and indexers that will get you into the search engine listings.
2. visits by real people genuinely looking to use your site (make a purchase, view content, etc).
3. page requests from some sort of monitoring program that would ping your site every few minutes and ring your pager if the site went down (and this only if you're running your own server). This will automatically raise your hit count, but it would be an undesirable side effect, not the point of the exercise.
If you want to put a hit counter on your site (which generally looks amateurish, but it's your choice) and you want a high hit count, it's easy. Set the counter to start at 1,308,357. No need to go serving up a million pages for no reason.
Tom
