Has anyone recently had a surge of hits from a website called Alpha Inventions?
If you have, or indeed if you are a reader from the site, and really understand what it’s all about please could you clarify it to me.
What I understand is that Cheru Jackson (the creative mind behind the site AlphaInventions.com) wanted a new service that connects bloggers to each other in real-time.
Cheru breaks it down this way “Alpha Inventions connects webmasters with each other in real-time by providing traffic to webmasters from other webmasters as soon as they publish a blog from Blogger, Word Press, Type pad, and Msn.”
So it appears that AlphaInventions introduces bloggers from all around the world to each other– free. There is an option to buy an AID# to increase your exposure.
But I haven’t had any comments from new readers. So I was wondering (sceptically) if anybody in fact reads these blogs or if they just sign in and wait to ‘increase’ their stats. Is it a wonderful thing or is it a scary thing?
If you know and have more knowledge than I do – please explain. Thank you!
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March 28, 2009 at 5:32 am
Jane
Don’t worry Paula I still don’t really understand Alpha Inventions. They have been visiting my site for quite a few months. It has boosted my stats… but doesn’t really seem to have brought any new readers – not ones that comment anyway. It also doesn’t seem to do any harm, just introduces people to your blog as you post new posts. If you go to the Alpha Inventions website you see new posts popping up as they are posted from around the world (it can be a bit addictive to click on a few)…
March 28, 2009 at 7:05 am
paula
Yes, they, alphainventions, have been visiting here too, as well as condron. Stats have gone through the roof, though it seems more computer generated than real.
That’s what I was really wondering – does anyone really bother to click on the blogs whizzing by or is it just a mechanical way of raising stat numbers? It would be good if people actually bothered to read them!
As you said they don’t seem to do any harm.
BTW are you and yours ok? I’ll email…
April 3, 2009 at 5:38 pm
throughstones
Hi – I came across Alpha Inventions and linked with it – thinking it basically was a very good idea. But like you, I don’t think I have had any new readers from it – just one, perhaps two ‘one-off’ comments, as far as I can see.
What has got me are the sudden high peaks. One day my stats shot right up to near 3000, which I am convinced are not proper readers, else why has not one of them commented on my irresistable prose
This peak is so high that it makes all my other stats look like a straightl line along the bottom of the graph – so i can no longer follow the slow but steady rise upwards and get a sense of where things are going.
I should get out more!
April 7, 2009 at 9:23 pm
paula
Exactly the same happened here – I now have this pathetic little worm crawling along the bottom of the page whereas before it looked quite healthy (you are right – we have to get out more!).
It would be good if just one of those ‘hits’ came back with a response.
May 28, 2009 at 5:53 pm
alphainventions
Do you not realized what just happened from mentioning alphainventions.com
You got comments from real people. Wake up guys!
I love you all.
June 3, 2009 at 10:31 pm
paula
…umm, not too sure I ever got comments from unreal people! I don’t think I’ve had any from Alphainventions though.
June 7, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Sassy Miss P
Hey. I had 40 new referrals to my blog from Alpha Inventions yesterday. Like you say, no comments, no actual sign anyone was actually there. I certainly did not list with Alpha, and in fact have no idea what it is as a service. Odd, indeed.
June 7, 2009 at 10:02 pm
rick davis
I get a few hits from them but it does seem computer generated. It did direct me here, so it cant be all bad. Maybe that is the point.
June 8, 2009 at 7:54 am
Agata
To me, all the hits are computer generated and of NO use whatsoever. Plus, it just spoiled my traffic stats!!
I’ll have to ask the guy to take me out of the pointless scheme. grrrrr!!
June 8, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Serial Insomniac
Experiencing the same as everyone else really. Quite a few hits from it but no tangible evidence anyone is actually reading the material, which is frankly not that useful :-/
But it’s how I happened upon this blog myself, so I suppose there are *some* real folk out there!
October 26, 2009 at 12:31 am
Shawn Mclean
I just made a post on my wordpressblog and got a surge from them. So i googled for what is alphainventions and got here. I still dont get what they do.