[EvanL]

Motion Seconded. To the best of my knowledge this is not an economically viable traffic inflation technique in todays ecosystem.

Possible, but not much value for an arbitrage savvy publisher.

Not going to name names, but a good deal of fuckery is afoot in under article link exchange widgets. You know the ones, the boxes with link bait thumbnails that show up on a good deal of popular entertainment sites. Dealt with a lot of fake traffic coming through from the link exchange network. It appeared other publishers were sending tons of fake bot clicks to our site, in order to give themselves a higher amount of free reciprocal traffic from the link exchange.