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[Plugin: Popularity Contest] Problem with overstating blog post hits (3 posts)

  1. edbertha
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Running version 2.0b2. Set all popularity values to a count of 1. I am interested in only seeing the activity on the posts. SEO consultant states the reported counts are way beyond actual traffic on the site. Category views are extremely, extremely high (Consistently the highest by a wide margin).

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/popularity-contest/

  2. edbertha
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Is the plug-in recording bot GETs as hits?

  3. edbertha
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Monitored posts. At 7:46pm popularity counters increased on the top 3 posts. Reviewed the server log this am. There was no activity on those posts during that time frame. 2 of the 3 that incremented had no activity at all during the day. The 3rd was picked up by a bot later in the day outside of the time slot monitored. Why/how did the counts increment?

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