What exactly does Hit-Booster do?

[TSZ SEO]

My director aproached me this morning with a peice of software that he has seen advertised and asked wether we should trile it out on our websites.

The software is called Hit-Booster http://mgstyle.110mb.com/hitbooster.html
I cant find a single review of this software or any clue to how it achieves its results and therefore I'm reluctant to put it to on our sites. I also cant find a single indipendant review can any one help with this

Cheers
Mike

[rtheodorow]

What exactly does Hit-Booster do?

Waste your money....

[dzine]

How do you know? Have you tried it?

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[rtheodorow]

How do you know? Have you tried it?

Getting a 404 when clicking the link tells me it wasn't a very successful product!

[dzine]

Maybe it was SO successful that they decided to pull it, in order not to get too much competition (from people using the same stuff).

I dunno.

The name of the page suggests to me that there is similar software about that will do more or less the same thing....

[rtheodorow]

Dzine, you are cracking me up today! Nice

[debi56]

I purchased the product and I use it. I do get hits to my site, I can't say they are a lot of hits but anything helps. I use other programs also. I am fairly new to this whole web business and so my opinion of the product may come from being ignorant but there you have it. By the way does anyone have any knowledge of any really good programs that can send traffic to my sites?

[FinditHere.info]

Hi

I have been using Hit Booster Software for a little while now and I am getting thousands of hits to my site every day.

You can set the software to "hit" your website every 2 seconds or even every 1 second. I just keep this software running in the background when Im working.

The only concern I have is that Im wondering if it is okay with the search engines to use software to get hits to your site or if it will be going against your rankings?? If anyone has an idea on this??

Regards,

Rinus

[ClickyB]

Hi

I have been using Hit Booster Software for a little while now and I am getting thousands of hits to my site every day.

You can set the software to "hit" your website every 2 seconds or even every 1 second. I just keep this software running in the background when Im working.

The only concern I have is that Im wondering if it is okay with the search engines to use software to get hits to your site or if it will be going against your rankings?? If anyone has an idea on this??

Regards,

Rinus

So - are you actually getting surfers hitting your site or is the software script sending "hits"?
If you have the software, presumably there's some explanation about how it works?

Have you any analytical information to back up whether this "traffic" is productive/targetted in any way? (eg: Assuming the hits are actually visitors - do they ever get past your home page / buy your products etc)?

[dzine]

PPM ads, I bet

[jackcjackson]

Why would anyone want to get "hits" to a site. DOn't you want actual visitors, sales, $$$...

[rtheodorow]

Why would anyone want to get "hits" to a site. DOn't you want actual visitors, sales, $$$...

Nah, hits are much better...

[FinditHere.info]

this Hitbooster software does not actually send targeted traffic to your site, although on their website they say they do? It just sents hits from your own computer to your website.

The more hits the more it will increase your rankings right?

[ClickyB]

...It just sents hits from your own computer to your website.
The more hits the more it will increase your rankings right?

... ummmm No! (God how I wish it was that easy)

[dzine]

If a hit generator is any good, it will generate "impressions" on any pay-per-impression ads you have on your page(s). It has nothing to do with ranking.

There is more software about that can do the same. There is a risk involved; I wouldn't use a well-known one like Hitbooster if I were you....