from 20 visits a day to 460 a day

I was checking my stats for the website in my signature. I usually get 20-25 visitors a day. But not today. Today I received 288 visits and 460 impressions. I looked at my refferals and I found out that autohits.dk sent me all this traffic. Now I know that I did not signed up with them. So it is really strange. Has someone else encountered something similar?

 

Perhaps thats their marketing technique? give webmasters hits so they sign up?

 

Or maybe to get you to visit their site.

 

Sounds like a great idea from them

 

It actually a form of spam.

 

Yes, but it does work, since I would definately visit their site.

What I would do, is tell this to any advertisers on your site, since this could display badly for them....

 

That happened to my site, and its not good if you have Adsense.
It goes against their TOS and can get you banned

 

I figured it out. Someone has stolen the code of my webpage and forgot to remove the counter script.

 

lol thats not good rippers!

 

I will like to know if someone register you site in autohits
you will be banned by adsense?

 

It happend a few times to me, not this same website but another one. I was accually pretty impressed becouse i also got a few extra clicks on my adsence

 

If you use any auto hits programs paid to click, paid to surf etc you will be banned by google without question and you will have no chance getting back your account google.

 

this happened to me and google sent me a warning, i explained the problem and they stated regardless of how it happened if it kept on id lose my account.

 

I agree, Google will cancel your account if you use any auto hit programs and there is no way to open the account ever again.

 

I've also had problems like this. I just blocked their IP in cpanel

 

stay away from auto hits not worth the trouble