Making anime sites is mainly a hobby, and maybe you can make a few dollars while your at it. But there are a lot of people who all they want is tons of hits and popularity. So what they do is cheat on their hits so they can get this. See all they want is attention and popularity so they have to cheat. Cheating isn't good. Here are 2 reasons they cheat.

1.) So bigger sites will affiliate with them because they think they get the required hits.
2.) So that they achieve more popularity and usually these people are power hungry and put others down because they think they're tough and cool (but their probably dorks in real life).

So, how do they cheat?
Well that easy. There are things called IFrames that are little frames that depending on what you set them to, will display a part of a site that you set it to. A lot who cheat put these setting to 0 so that the frames are invisible and no one can see them but really they are doubling and tripling their hits with these things. For every one person, they get 2 or 3 hits instead of 1. Overtime they get more and more hits, and so the cheating hits add on. There are also Auto-Refresh sites that put a refresh code so the site will refresh the page and get more hits on its own. Also, people use force voteing. This has become (sadly) more popular on tons of sites now.

Well, isn't there a way to get lots of hits without cheating?
There are ways, here are a few reasons. There are search engines, which some are stupid enough to overlook. Links pages, free for all links. And even the occasional spamming in a chat room (not recommended). If your e-mailing a friend you might wanna include your site address so that they can visit if they want. Affiliates can also give you a few hits, but DO NOT depend of them for all your hits! So many people depend on them for hits and have like 1000 affiliates. Use search engines and links pages, those should be over 50% of your hit source.

Why are there are new "Coming Soon" sites that are getting 5000+ hits?
One word, CHEATER. No brand new sites that are under construction will get more that 5000 hits a day, it's extremely rare, and only happens to sites that have been open for a while and are listed at the top of the search engines. Usually these are cheaters, and to find out if they truly are, follow this next step. Also, they just set up their counter to say 5,000.

How do I find out if a site is cheating on their hits?
View the source of their site. Look carefully at the code and if you see an iFrame set to height and width = 0 or 1, or an Auto Refresh script, if you so then you got yourself a cheater. Or if you find a page that says you have to vote before entering, this how you can beat the system. Just click them and close the pop ups or view the source for the page that the force voteing leads to. If you want we'll post the cheating site here so someone can do something about it.

List of Current Cheaters:
Dragonball Fusion - Uses force voteing