Comments on: Website Traffic Series Part 13: Faking a Hacker Attack

By: medyumon

medyumon — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:30:00 +0000

Hi Denial

By: gausartson

gausartson — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:31:00 +0000

No man, it’s a bad tip in the long run:)

By: Kok Choonon

Kok Choonon — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:02:00 +0000

Oh boy, this is nice trick!

By: instantShifton

instantShifton — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:58:00 +0000

Nice tip !!

By: sagar trapasiaon

sagar trapasiaon — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:02:00 +0000

its a fuc**** way to use these sort of startegies. This shows that you dont know how to bring traffic. You can create a scene and easily get attention. You would be more satisfied if you bring 100 visitors by ur strategy than doing these cheap stunts.

By: Hyderon

Hyderon — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:18:00 +0000

Ah yes, I remember this stunt.

By: SEO Geniuson

SEO Geniuson — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:53:00 +0000

Interesting article Daniel, something I never considered before not that I would every do it however still interesting.

By: Manoel Franklinon

Manoel Franklinon — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:25:00 +0000

Very interesting idea,… I will not try it, but the final result can be very good! Best regards!

By: Hendry Leeon

Hendry Leeon — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:15:00 +0000

Well, that was a clever trick the first time someone did it, but used too often, that sounds desperate. No?

By: Daniel Scoccoon

Daniel Scoccoon — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:54:00 +0000

@suresh, depending on your niche the visitors can stick and or even become loyal readers. There are many people out there who like to follow “pioneers” and blackhat guys.

By: Dilsonon

Dilsonon — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:20:00 +0000

i think that was the biggest mistakes if you do that. you can lost your many readers

By: Carguyon

Carguyon — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:51:00 +0000

I am one of those people that eres on the side of caution. I wouldn’t do it but it does build some buzz for those that do.

By: Ryan McLeanon

Ryan McLeanon — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:41:00 +0000

I am a pretty straight guy and all the techniques I use to drive traffic to my site are whitehat. I think this is completely stupid if someone does this and it could get a lot of negative attention.
Truthfully I like to do it the honest way. I would be pissed if someone lies to me and faked one of these because I build ym entrepreneurs blog on honesty, not the ‘fake it to make it’ strategy

By: Adam Pieniazekon

Adam Pieniazekon — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:04:00 +0000

In the past I faked an event or two (non-hacker related) on some of my older, now defunct blogs. Honestly, I did it to see what would happen, plus I wanted to wrap up those blogs and the faked events were a good way to do so. Sure, there was a traffic spike revolving around these events but in the long run (which I wasn’t concerned with as they were meant to be short term blogs) it’s not good.

By: Sunil Pathakon

Sunil Pathakon — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:48:00 +0000

Hi Denial

By: Franklin Bishopon

Franklin Bishopon — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:04:00 +0000

If this was me I would decide not to do it. I just think that the consequences are worse for you then anything good that could come from it. I mean I’m sure there are many people out there that are going to try to prove that you are really not being hacked. I’m pretty sure one of those people will be able to do so and then you’re stuck explaining why you pretended to be hacked.

By: sureshon

sureshon — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:34:00 +0000

As you rightly said this hacking not seems to be a good idea.

By: Alexandra Girouxon

Alexandra Girouxon — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:17:00 +0000

That’s why so many websites got hacked today!