threads views are weirdly high

[navidmoj]

Hi

I have a weird problem with some of my threads
they have very high view count

for example
one thread with 350 replies has 4500 views and one thread with only 170 replies has 32,000 views

I know for some forums these numbers are normal but not mine

what could be the cause?

please help me

thanks in advance

[DreadsUK]

It could just be the google search has bumped your result higher for some reason. Resulting in loads of new traffic to your site but not necessarily registered members.

[navidmoj]

thanks dreadsuk
is there any ways i can fix it?
reducing those numbers and stop it to happen again

[ForceHSS]

It could be you are getting a lot of bad bots visiting your site this is not good. install this plugin to stop them

[Zachery]

I wouldn't worry about your view count, at least not enough to go out of your way to try to fix it.

[Lynne]

Do you have any modifications? Usually these types of problems are the result of a modification.

[navidmoj]

Originally Posted by ForceHSS

It could be you are getting a lot of bad bots visiting your site this is not good. install this plugin to stop them

Originally Posted by Zachery

I wouldn't worry about your view count, at least not enough to go out of your way to try to fix it.

thanks guys
how much more views should i get to start worrying about it?
I mean I really need good bots from big search engines right now

Originally Posted by Lynne

Do you have any modifications? Usually these types of problems are the result of a modification.

thanks Lynne
honestly I'm not sure
it's just one week I'm the admin of this forum and I'm not sure about the mods before
I checked and didn't see anything unusual
is there any specific place i should check?

[Lynne]

Any modification that deals with posting or threads would be worth looking at. But honestly, you'd spend a lot of time trying to understand the code just to change some thread views which most people won't notice in the first place.

[navidmoj]

thanks again

I'm disabling mods one by one

[BBbuilder]

I wouldn't necessarily worry about view counts, either, but some of us (like me) have certain clients who freak out about not-real views. I installed the ban spiders mod (thanks for the suggestion!), but I would still like to "fix" the view count for my client, but can't figure out how. Anyone?