Recently I went through an interesting article on Information Week, which was related to the use of spyware driven-traffic increasing the traffic counts of sites. Through the article, it is claimed that video sites are increasingly inclined to do this due to the 1.65 B buy out of YouTube.
A study by spyware researcher Ben Edelman finds that spyware-driven traffic inflation is common, particularly at video sites. Besides, he said that spyware is also being utilized to manipulate the fame of YouTube videos. The study identifies Bolt.com, GrindTV.com, Broadcaster.com, Away.com, RooTV.com, and Diet.com as the beneficiaries of spyware-driven traffic.
Here is the direct link to Ben Edelman’s result. While you get through them it looks that what he detected is a quite old game, where pop up and pop under advertising that calls a page or process on the web site that after that blows up the statistics of that web site.
Given that this is not a new-fangled game, and rather old in aspects of how long this has been carried out to drive up web statistics, if you memorize the omnipresent ads for the X10 Camera that eventually turned that web site into one of all the rage web sites on the globe, all by virtue of pop up/under advertising.
