Since the loony votes was a hoax/joke I doubt there will be

Comment on General Election 2017 by David.

Since the loony votes was a hoax/joke I doubt there will be a lot of new comments from them, they have come and gone basically. Yes there’s an argument to remove them, but also an argument not to, now I know they are real visitors I can’t be sure all of them was a hoax (some might be real).

If I seriously thought it would matter long term (it’s the loony party and can be ignored) I might change my mind, but I see the main parties receiving 5,000 plus votes each before the election (assuming it’s not called early). Those 900 votes won’t mater then.

I own other websites and I’m very good at getting search engine traffic to them, I’ve a joke site which regularly breaks 10,000 visitors day for example.

AndyK the voting seems to come in waves, like Saturday about 300 BNP votes, if the BNP got that number of votes every day for just one week they’d be in the thousands by now, so it was a one off spike (there was a link from the BNP site).

I’ve not tracked daily votes, but other than the 900 loony votes, the 300 in one day for one party is the most I’ve seen in one day. I thought they might be fake, but I checked the logs etc… and everything added up (mostly UK IP’s for example and there was the link that brought in 400 visitors on Saturday/Sunday).

Also this is a relatively new site, I only started adding content regularly in mid-September, so about 10 weeks live really.

In October the site averaged around 500 visitors a day, now it’s about 2,000 with a peak of about 4,000 last Saturday. I’m seeing a fair number of visitors coming from Facebook and the BNP main website (I checked and people are linking to this poll in the comments). The site also got hits from the UKIP website, but I couldn’t track down where it was posted.

I’ve still got a lot of content to add, barely scratched the surface of the Green Party Policies for example, they have a policy on everything, I’m half expecting to find one on how to pick your nose without damaging the flora up there :-)

If it stays at 2,000 visitor a day (it won’t, it will keep going up) that’s about 400,000 visitors between now and the expected date of the next general election.

David