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Increase your Sina blog hitcount for pennies a day!

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There are reports circulating about a new piece of software that promises to increase your blog's hit-count, and hence your exposure and popularity.

The "Sina Blog Hitcount Killer" (新浪博客计数器杀手, pictured), produced by a company called DreamWorks, includes this promotional text:

What rank do you want to be - King, Marquis, General, or Minister? Why do Xu Jinglei, Guo Jingming, and Han Han's blogs have such high hitcounts? Starting today, you can, too! Fill in your blog ID, click start, and your blog hit count can be up there with theirs!

The motivation behind this seems to be the idea that Sina will hand out to high-performing blogs a meaningful ID, rather than the random series of characters that average users are issued.

There's a free version that will work for users with fewer than 10,000 hits; rates on the paid version give 10,000 hits for 1 yuan, up to a maximum of 1 million - beyond that, says the company, you don't really need their services. The same company also advertises a "Baidu relevant keywords cheat" that is currently unavailable, as well as services for online poll stuffing and other automated number tricks. And while the hitcount software is looking for advertisers, one wonders what kind of client would place an ad with a company whose stated mission is manipulating impression numbers.

The software itself doesn't seem downloadable from the company's website at present, but it can be found linked off of various blogs and forums. No, we didn't test it, for reasons which should be obvious.

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There are currently 3 Comments for Increase your Sina blog hitcount for pennies a day!.

Comments on Increase your Sina blog hitcount for pennies a day!

it is stupid to increase blog's hit-count by using such software.

People visit a blog because it has something to offer, whatever it is. Some "high-performing" blogs on Sina are not necessarily interesting in terms of contents. It amuses me to see that some people stay up late in order to post the first reply to a star-blogger's new entry. Such interest is sparked by the star status of the blogger.

What's the point of getting more hit-counts through a software without generating some real interest?

Hello,I am the author of this software.
I make this software is just for fun,it was founded accidnetal that it is easy to get one sina blog counter be high out of your image,so I do this.
I am not satisfy of what sina has done so I just want to tell sina...I don't agree with the way of stars blogs...

Just for fun...:)
P.S.2 users had emailed me to buy this

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