Jerk-Off To Seek Jackpot Justice?

Another Scam
Another Hospital Stay

After being hospitalized on and off for the past few months with what some say was a severe case of herpes, Mark Vance Halburn is back on his back in the hospital, doing what he does best, laying around.

This time it's after a "slip and fall" in a South Carolina grocery store where he broke his leg.



Halburn has long dreamed of a big lawsuit settlement, total disability, or both. He 's been salivating for years over the thoughts of extorting a large sum out of a business and collecting a disability check.

It's going to be hard to do once a defense lawyer sees this admission:

"Surgery slippers"

That's right, Halburn went shopping in those socks with the rubber dots the hospital gave him during his last stay.

He was wearing socks. In a grocery store.
Not even his normal cheap Chinese flip flops. Not slippers. SOCKS.

Kiss your payout goodbye, shitbird. Their insurance company will be sure to point out your contributory negligence with this since those aren’t fucking SHOES.

He's keeping his eyes on the prize though.

The fucker breaks his leg and needs surgery but he's still complaining that they were out of what he wanted.

Always.

If this guy worked as hard at working as he did at getting permanent total disability and a jackpot justice claim, he would be a productive member of society.

The Readers' Voice

Overwhelming Response to Wanted Post

PutnamLIES posted the Mark Halburn wanted story on our Facebook page Thursday afternoon.
The response was tremendous.
In 24 hours, the post had almost 27,000 views and 250 shares.

The comments readers left are incredible.

But you know what the most amazing thing is though? Look at how wide the range is of people who have had terrible experiences with him.
No, Mark. It’s not just a few “evil politicians.”
It's from all walks of life. Every single person that he has contact with. And many point out his scams.
NOBODY had anything positive to say about him.

The comments all seem to fall under a few distinct categories.
Let's look at a selection of those, shall we?

WALMART:
"Mark is known at every Walmart in a 50 mile radius. He would find an item that was out of stock, use the Walmart app to buy it using pick up today. Less than a minute after placing the order he would go to the pick up area an demand someone get his item. When he was told we were out of stock, he would claim that the website was falsely advertising, then demand to get a more expensive item for the same price."

"Saw him about 3 weeks ago in Cary NC causing a problem at Walmart about price match."

"He’s tough at Walmart customer service until you start walking out from behind the counter. Fuck him and his busted 10 year old discontinued clothing iron."

"This guy is the worst. I had to deal with him so many times at Walmart. Not an intelligent man at all, but speaks to people like they're garbage. He actively acts out for attention. I try not to speak ill of people, but this dude is just all around no bueno."

"One night I had to stay over at Walmart because he wanted a particular color of clock then he called me an idiot for not being able to find him one. I clocked out and then passed him on way out. He said something smart and I called him a fucking jackass. I told on myself the next day to the store manager and was told... "Yea. He is."

"This guy is in the Nitro Walmart all the time. He's went to jail for phone harassment for a Walmart situation. He is strange."

"This dude is always causing trouble in the at Walmart lol"

CONSUMER:
"This guy’s name is Mark Halburn and he is the scum of the earth piece of shit. I have dealt with him for years working retail at Kmart and Walmart. Always is offended and wants something for free. Same thing at every restaurant he goes to. Is never satisfied and bitches until he gets his meals free. He’s truly a waste of oxygen."

"This guy is psycho! He came to my work and went nuts when his order wasn't ready and we had to call the police because he refused to leave!"

"I took a call from him when I worked Customer Service at CAMC. He is a major asshole, always talking down to people, and always threatening to sue."

"He called Best Buy (in Huntington) a while back and asked if he could come back into the store."

"Banned at all the banks. About damn time. No more dollar deposits for him."

"Our favorite customer from Portrait Innovations, good ol' Mark Halburn, Holy hell!!! His craziness finally caught up to him."

"He loves to call the utility companies and harass the CSRs...and I do mean HARASSS."

"I remember him being banned by Suddenlink."

"He is known at my work (phone company, Frontier) for all the drama he has caused."

"Lol that one time we saw him returning donated canned foods for cash."

"He was at Kroger in Dunbar, he told me to mind my own business, when I asked him a question!"

"Very rude- I’ve seen him in Kroger’s treating employees like shit"

FOOD:

"I deal with him at Gino's allll the time."

"He was no better at Tudors, trying to get a cheeseburger for a complimentary sausage biscuit."

"He used to come into Sheetz all the time when I worked there. He would steal donuts out of the trash and sit in the lobby all night lol. We had him banned because he would take receipts out of the trash, write a fake code in them and get $1 off his purchase."

JOBS:

"I gave that man an interview when I worked for DIRECTV."

"He used to work at the Comfort Inn when I was the manager."

He interviewed with me for a sales position before I started at the bank. A trained monkey could do the job but I didn't hire him!!!!!"

"He worked at Target and got fired for harassing guests and threatening a manager... he had a restraining order banning him from there for a while."

TEACHER:

"He was also a substitute teacher. Yes, I remember him in 2nd or 3rd grade. How lovely Kanawha County lets people like that teach children."

"He subbed a lot at Ben Franklin when I was there! OMG."

"He used to be my substitute teacher, this isn't his first time being in trouble with the law."

"That’s my old substitute teach from Hayes middle lol  he substituted at Hayes all the time."

"He subbed at DMS."

"Didn't he sub at South Point?"

"I can NOT believe SHS allowed this man to be our substitute teacher. He is always in jail...."

"I can’t believe he was one of our subs He use to dig in the trash all the time too & stepping on mice.
He’s also been arrested on stalking and harassment charges."

"He sexually harassed a girl who was in my freshman class in high school.  I think he was making remarks about her behind. I do know he was actually investigated by the school and parents and was barred from being a substitute, at the time he would substitute in a few week periods. He was a substitute for my history class and he would literally have a Sheetz fountain drink cup every single day, he would also talk about how much he loved Sheetz. Definitely a real creep. He would stand at the front of our classroom with his legs apart as if he was having a search performed on him and he'd move his hips. I'm not sure if he ever got in trouble at any other school but like I said he was a real piece of work.

BIZARRE:

"I've seen him at some political events I cater. He was sticking food in his camera bag ... he is crazy ."

NEIGHBORS:

"Mom the guy next door to you in the apartments."
"I haven’t seen him in awhile."
"He’s creepy as hell! I told Nana and Popie to get him out, but they are scared he’ll just turn on them. He’s a weirdo...I tell them to be on alert at all times around him."

CREEPY:

"He used to snap pics ALL THE TIME at the Wave Pool."

"I went out with him a few times."

"He was at a Gospel sing several years ago taking pictures of children! He got caught and was asked to leave!"

"He use to have a kid in daycare where I worked years ago and it was an odd relationship between the two he would say such creepy things to that child"

"I do not play with this mf'er. He is real life psycho. It took one encounter with him for me to be scarred for life. He's a whole other level of shit show that I never wanna deal with again."

As expected, it didn't take long for this dipshit to be a self-fulfilling version of himself. By Saturday, he posted this:

It looks like the crazy fucker is basically going through the comments and shares and is going to start harassing people/bosses. It won't be a surprise if he starts calling places. Maybe even showing up. Probably private messaging people as well.
It proves exactly what everyone is saying.
Just remember, in West Virginia you have no duty to retreat. If you feel your life is in danger, you can use lethal force.

Which takes us back to ... Who steals cans from a place?
You gotta be pretty fucked up to steal bags of aluminum cans right? Like just how broke could you be? A bag is probably only worth about $5.00. That's homeless bum territory. But that's a story for another day.

Letters. We Get Letters.

Halburn Impersonates Second Ex-Wife

Last Saturday we received an email from someone purporting to be Halburn's second ex-wife. We smelled a rat as soon as we read it. A big fat smelly rat named Mark Vance Halburn.

She has absolutely no reason to contact us. Why would she? She has nothing to say to us. And we have nothing to say to her.

 So Saturday's email came as a surprise. But we knew something was amiss as soon as we read it.

Why would she care why he left? We're sure she's just relieved that he's gone.

So we waited a couple of days and  then asked, "Who Are you? Mark who?"
And the answer came back:

Our reply: 

"He's undergoing gender reassignment surgery. 
 
Seriously. Fuck you Halburn, We know it's you."

Two hours later, his answer was: 

We answered back:
"Bullshit.

You realize this is going to get posted don't you?
And as soon as it is, Judge Keller is going to see it.
Enjoy your time back in jail, asshole.

That kid of yours is going to be shaving before you see him again."


"Not Halburn" never answered that email.

And now it's being posted. This is the kind of shit that got him sent to jail before Christmas. A stunt like this could put him back in there.

Why would Halburn do something like this? Easy.

He wants something to prove that she's communicating with us. To smoke us out. He's convinced that everyone is conspiring against him. He's a fucking nut.

He even used a picture of her holding the son he will never see again.

God only knows if he’s emailing anyone else with that address and what he’s saying. The court would be interested to know too.

But we can see the fake email now ... “I confess I cheated on my husband and I am an unfit mother. Therefore I ask for my parental rights to be immediately terminated and for my son to be placed with his father in a Beach house you order me to Buy. I also will pay $1 million per month for life for spousal and child support and will never contact my son or Mark Hallburn again”

He's notorious for using fake accounts. He even forged a letter from Judge Mike Kelly to the Supreme Court during his divorce case.

A practice like this is business at its absolute worst, practiced by an immoral charlatan masquerading as a journalist.  He will stoop to the lowest, most vulgar, vile and disgusting ploys to deceive the honest, hard-working citizen. He is the lowest form of scum on the face of the earth.

What's The News On The Street, Johnny?

Word on the street is that Halburn is getting donated can goods from a local food bank, and then taking them to the Nitro WalMart and throwing a fit until they give him a refund.

Guess that fake news blog isn't doing so well.

Samaritan Or Liar?

Halburn Claims To Be Lifesaver
PutnamLIES.com Exposes Hoax

Monday, PutnamLIES.com got this screen grab in the morning mail.

Here's the story.
Very early on the morning of August 19, PsychoPublisher Halburn posted this on his Facebook page.

Some say Halburn should be honored as a "hometown hero."

Who says that?

No one.

Not even Halburn.
He says, "I seek no recognition for helping people."
Except from the sycophants he's befriended on Facebook.

Then why post it? Especially at 2:10 AM?
What's his real motivation?

Simple.
Image crafting and narcissism.
Perhaps the real reason is that he did it was to gain sympathy because he could have gone to jail Monday. Maybe the judge would give a life saving samaritan a break.

Touching, isn't it? The problem? It's all bullshit!

The Sunday, August 18 America concert was part of the Parkersburg annual homecoming. Along the riverfront. Maybe 6 or so miles off I77.
America played at 8. Which means he was on the road home by no later than 11. Which means this wreck happened sometime between then and midnight or a little later.

Wood County knows nothing about a crash.
Jackson and Kanawha don't either.
Neither do any of the counties in Ohio.
It wasn't on the WV 77 twitter feed or the WV511 twitter feed.

Bottom line is, a rollover anywhere gets police and EMS. Someone would be able to tell you if a rollover happened anywhere between there and here.

Even if there were no fatalities, there absolutely would have been news coverage of a rollover accident involving 5 people.

No TV reports.
No radio reports.
No newspaper reports.

Nobody has a record of it even happening.

If any of our readers knows about this "accident," please send us the information.

"If mom makes it."
"Is my mommy going to die."
What a fucking sick bastard.

How sick you have to be to make something like that up?

So how about it fatboy?

Let's hear your brave story of heroism.

Let's hear how, equipped only with a first aid kit and a fire extinguisher, you disregarded your own personal safety and bravely led the rescue of 5 injured motorists, all the while struggling to remain in control of your delicate emotions.

You're a brave hero and we'd like to notify the local news stations to get them to do a story about your selfless bravery.

How about some detail, like when & where it actually happened or the names of the responding agencies or the other samaritans so we could honor everybody?

You can't do it because your story is bullshit. It never happened.
Or maybe it did. Prove us wrong. Provide some scintilla of proof.

We're sure he'll have some explanation.

Halburn's excuses? Maybe he'll say, "I never SAID it was along the interstate."
Maybe he'll pull out the old "Oh! But I went home the Ohio way! I went down to Gallipolis and picked up 35 home to go back to Dunbar" story out of his ass.
Even though it would take at least a half hour longer in the dark and fog and he'd have to drive the deadly Route 35. The same road he was avoiding when he had his "accident" on I64 on the way back from King's Island in May.

When those excuses fall through he'll claim he made a side trip to Delaware. He's running out of options. There are a million ways he will attempt to weasel out of this.

The only way that this story could be less believable would have been for him to say, "the the West Virginia State Police Superintendent called me at home to personally thank me for saving that family's life, and shared with me the little girl's name-Sarah Nicole."

Every time you think he couldn't possibly be more batshit crazy, he goes and does something that proves you wrong.

Halburn has been caught yet again in another blatant self serving lie to try and make himself look good.
Shame.

9/2 UPDATE:
True to form, it takes Halburn two weeks to think up an excuse. And as predicted it's a variation on the "I went home a different way" story.

On 9/1 he posted this on his Facebook page:

"Here's what the trash bloggers missed: After the America concert I took some friends home far away from Parkersburg. That accounts for the time difference... And the location difference... Happy hunting!!!"

 

9/11 UPDATE:

And AS PREDICTED he has now trotted out the side trip lie.
It took him an additional week after his previous lie didn't work..

On 9/11 he posted another attempt at an explanation on his Facebook page.

"The trash blogger is still talking about the accident after the America concert. He needs a life... And he needs to stop assuming that I was on my way HOME after the concert! First, I took some friends home to another part of West Virginia... On my way to... drumroll please... to another state for a day trip... Happy hunting!!!"

Every time he brings this back up, after almost a month, it makes the story look less and less truthful.
Why the constant need to justify it happened? Because someone, somewhere, challenged him on it in real life. He ignored his Facebook friends' questions the last time. He not going to answer anyone this time, either.

I guess he left off the part where he was going to say,
"What these trash bloggers don't know is I am personal friends with Joe Biden and we had lunch in Delaware the next day."
Probably for security reasons.

9/12 UPDATE:
Halburn called in to the Tyler Hollywood Show tonight and claimed that the "accident" happened "on the interstate" in Washington County, Pennsylvania. Which means either I-70 or I-79.

Once this lie is proven wrong, the next thing the Hog With A Blog™ will say is he gave Tyler a fake location to, quote, MAKE HIM LOOK LIKE A FOOL ON HIS OWN SHOW!!!

9/18 UPDATE: 

Exactly one month to the day after the imaginary accident, a Washington County, Pennsylvania  911 spokesperson confirmed what we already knew:
"We checked our CAD records and have no record of an accident (on I-70 or I-79) during that time frame." 

So there you have it.
Game. Set. Match.

We continue to call bullshit. You're STILL a liar, Halburn. and we just proved it.
The fact remains that there were no accidents like the one you described on that Sunday night in West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia or Delaware, regardless of how far away your imaginary friends live from Parkersburg.
Like many of his FB friends, we'd also like to know why he's trying to claim credit for something that never happened? 
Maybe the reason he believes this is because it was a vivid dream or some kind of fucked up fugue state. Maybe he got a hold of some bad acid or had a few too many Bartles and Jaymes at the America concert.
Whatever it was, it's still a lie.

Keep digging that hole, shithead.

Happy Birthday To Us!

It's been exactly two years now since we decided we'd had enough of Halburn's shit. He can no longer abuse with impunity Putnam County's citizens, government officials or anyone else that disagrees with him. Our mission when we started PutnamLIES.com was to expose the lies, hypocrisy and unethical behavior of PutnumLive and its "publisher" Mark Hallburn.

And that we have done.

We are now THE outlet for people to answer the scurrilous charges that he makes.

He has discovered that it's not so fun when the sandal is on the other foot.

It was a big year for PutnamLIES.com and Hallburn continued his long slow slide into oblivion.

So with that said, let's look at the last year.


Pool Whining Continues

Halburn continued his yearly whining about the pools closing the last week in August due to the lifeguards all going back to school.

Then in the spring, we proved him wrong on the cost of holding the end of season Dog Swim.

And it's coming again, so get ready.


Halburn Strokes Out

In October, the news the world was waiting for was released. Halburn had stroked out.

Unfortunately for everyone it was only Bell's Palsy and he is expected to recover.

But he does have diabetes, high blood pressure and sleep apnea, so there is still hope.


Rezoning Maps

Hallburn's investigative reporting uncovered the double secret zoning change to his second wife's property. Except it wasn't her property.PutnamLIES.com proved his allegations wrong. Again.

Anyone that could read a deed and a map could see that.

Except the dummy.

Calls Karen Haynes "A Bitch"

Last fall Hallburn started douching up the trailer park of the internet, Topix, with his presence. In October he called the tireless Karen Haynes "a bitch" because she is married to Hallburn's imagined nemesis Joe Haynes and because of her tireless work raising funds for a new Putnam County Animal Shelter.

Hallburn, you're not fit to scrape the dogshit off this lady's shoes. 
Fired Again

Shortly thereafter, he lost his insurance job with Woodmen of The World, after an incident where he harassed several people at Buffalo's Octoberfest, while he was there representing the insurance company.

Election Warning
Just before the general election in November, the West Virginia Secretary of State sent a warning to Putnam County officials that Halburn might attempt to create a scene and try to disrupt the electoral process. Due to the proactive efforts of the prosecutor and sheriff's office a potential problem was averted.

Desperation Redesign
Late in the year, in a desperate attempt to attract advertisers and bolster his shrinking readership, Hallburn had his news blog redesigned. Now he has a hit counter so he can falsify the number of imaginary readers that he thinks his site gets. He even let the genius that did the redesign to change his URL from a .com to a far less desirable .net.

MySpace 1994 has become MySpace 2010. The same old shit with a barely new look. Proving once again that you can't polish a turd.

Which led to: 

Hit Counter Proven To Be A Fraud

PutnamLIES.com's IT expert showed how Hallburn inflates his hit counter by loading almost 100 different links on every pageload, thereby artificially inflating the actual visitors by a factor of 100. We proved his actual daily readership was about 29 readers.

Form Letters From Politicians

After being exposed multiple times by PutnamLIES.com for stealing letters to the editor from other sources, Halburn was reduced to running press releases from politicians as letters promoting their agendas and Facebook comments masquerading as letters.

Started Running Coupons

Proving that his blog is truly nothing more than a cluttered advertising shopper, Hallburn started running coupons.

Continues Running "News" Stories About "Advertisers"

He continues his unethical practice of running fawning stories about his so-called advertisers under the guise of news.

We're putting you, your "advertisers" and anyone else you promote on notice, fatboy. We are going to parody and belittle all of you. If you're a business and you don't want it done, don't associate with Hallburn. He is a boil on the ass of civilized society and we're here to lance it.

Election Ad Fiasco

We exposed the fact that ads for both Betty Ireland and Natalie Tennant that Hallburn placed on his blog before the Gubernatorial primary were not authorized and were not paid for by either campaign, despite containing the "Paid For By" disclaimer at the bottom, a clear violation of WV election law.

Both the candidates and their supporters wanted NOTHING to do with Hallburn or his blog. Hallburn was never able to provide any proof that the ads were paid for, a fact which both candidates' financial reports confirmed.

Narrowly Avoids Arrest in Charlotte 
While sponging off his second wife when she was in North Carolina for a Mary Kay pyramid seminar this March, Halburn was involved in pool incidents at at least 2 different hotels. The police were called in the second incident and Hallburn was escorted out of the hotel along with an unnamed minor boy. Shortly after they returned home, his second wife was fired from a teaching job she had held for a number of years, allegedly over her husband's behavior.

Falsifies Own Poll Results

As part of the pathetic "redesign" of his blog, Hallburn added a poll on a sidebar which he loads up with slanted questions. But, Hallburn being Hallburn can't leave anything alone that goes against his preconceived ideas, so he alters the results to make them give the answer he wants. When we called him on it, he went so far as to accuse HIS readers of stacking the poll.

And we end our year with Halburn's latest escapade.

Thrown Out Of Strayer University

In May Halburn was thrown out of Strayer University in Teays Valley where he was attending grad school for a degree in, are you ready for this, Human Relations. Yeah, we got a good laugh out of that too.

But seriously, he went in, caused a big stink, threatened the Dean and was thrown out.

The best part? The Dean is a 4th Degree Black Belt in Taekwondo. She could have kicked his ass all the way back to California.

PutnamLIES.com was started to do one thing: Expose the lies that Mark Halburn was printing every day on his blog. The LIES we're talking about are his. We've been doing it now for two years, and he still doesn't seem to like it very much.

His advertisers have left and his readership numbers, which were greatly exaggerated in the first place, are WAY down. His endless whining about Walmart declined somewhat, but his Walmart blog is long gone.

He's slipped into utter irrelevance because of us and it kills him.

Now people are asking him about us.

But our job's still not over..
Here at PutnamLIES.com, we promise to continue to report the truth even if some loudmouth douchebag whines and cries about it. He was used to being able to do whatever he wanted without question. PutnamLIES.com will continue to call him on his unethical behavior and illegal practices, even as he continues to stalk Girl of Words and continues to embarrass himself with his bogus vendettas and accusations.

Readership and support for PutnamLIES.com continues to rise. Halburn and PutnumLive continues to embarass themselves.

Anytime a future employer Googles his name, they'll be able to find this site and see the truth about him. In fact the number one Google result for the word Halburn is a page that contains his mental evaluation.

Someday in the not too distant future, a little boy will be able to see just what kind of asshole his daddy really is.

The internet is forever. This site and the information on it will follow Hallburn around until the day he dies. Which can't come soon enough for us.

We'd also like to thank all our loyal readers, our correspondents Harry Stamper and Dolemite and the other members of the Trash Bloggers Alliance: Girl of Words, Tyler Hollywood, Lee, Lenny, Tybois and all the rest. We couldn't do what we do without the help and input of our readers.

Our work here is not done. Our output may have slowed but that's only because we have forced the other publisher to alter the way he does business.

We are not going away.

We'll be all around in the dark. We'll be everywhere.

Wherever you can look; wherever he's smeared someone because they won't submit to his demands - we'll be there. Wherever Hallburn's pickin' on a woman - we'll be there. When he harasses people at their workplace - we'll be there.

And when people laugh and clap their hands when they hear he's leaving, we'll be there, too.



We're watching you, Hallburn. The all seeing eye never blinks.



PutnamLIES.com will be here one day longer than Hallburn and his cluttered opinion blog.

What's in store for the next year? Only Halburn's behavior can determine that.

But, keep watching PutnamLIES.com for a revealing new series of articles.

Hallburn Continues To Prevaricate In Election Ad Controversy

Where's The Proof?

The second set of primary
election financial statements are in, and as expected, neither PutnumLive nor Halburn's names appear on Natalie Tennant's or Betty Ireland's reports.

PutnamLIES.com exposed the fact that their political ads run by Halburn on his opinion blog appeared without the consent and without payment by their respective campaigns.
And that it appears to be a long standing practice of his, running over several election cycles.

And as always Halburn has a convoluted excuse why.

He claims to have PLENTY of documentation to cover himself. PLENTY! Signed agreements, income statements, EVERY penny is listed. EVERY penny!
He says.
He claims that if a candidate and/or supporter fails to declare a contribution to the SOS, that is on them.

He claims that some local candidates failed to report their purchase of ads.
His explanation is that supporters bought the ads and did not report the buy to a candidate. That's why the buy wasn't reported.

This, however, does not explain the fact that the Tennant ad specifically stated: "Paid For by the Elect Natalie Tennant Committee".
Now, in order for an ad to carry that disclaimer, it had to be placed by that committee, not a random supporter.

It also does not explain the fact that MULTIPLE campaigns did not report any expenditures at PutnumLive over the course of SEVERAL election cycles.

We can see if one candidate forgets to list such an insignificant ad buy like PutnumLive, but 2 in just 1 primary this year? And at least 3 other candidates in past elections? We were born at night, but not last night.
He then tried blaming unnamed out-of-state organizations for running the ads, saying because of that, the candidates can't possibly be aware of all of the advertisements run.

Hallburn says the Secretary of State knows that he WILL PROVE EVERYTHING that he says!
We say prove it to the reading public.
Show us the proof, fatboy. Either on your blog or send it to us and we'll print it, without alteration.

Provide the names of those who paid for the ads.

Then he claims that he has provided a document to the WVSOS office proving that they were paid for by supporters.

That's not good enough.
The public that you claim to serve has the right to know. The public that you claim to serve has the right to see whatever documents that you claim to have supplied to the secretary of state's office.
Show us the documents.

But we all know why you don't provide any proof. It doesn't exist. There's nothing to show.

You claim you did nothing wrong. Now prove it.

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The Facts Don't Lie

Hallburn's Readership Stats Disproven!

Numbers Add Up To Deception

PutnamLIES.com has long accused Halburn of exaggerating his hit numbers and now we have proof and we'll tell you how he does it.

Our IT Engineer has laid out how the underhanded scheme works.

First, a couple of technical internet facts.

The technical definition of a hit is:
Each file sent to a browser by a web server is an individual hit.
The technical definition of a pageview is:
A pageview is each time a visitor views a page on your website, regardless of how many hits are generated. Pages are comprised of files. Every image in a page is a separate file. When a visitor looks at a page (a pageview), they may see numerous images, graphics, pictures etc. and generate multiple hits.

For example, if you have a page with 10 pictures, then a request to a server to view that page generates 11 hits (10 for the pictures, and one for the html file). A page view can contain hundreds of hits. This is the reason that we measure page views and not hits.

The conclusion here is that hits are not a reliable way to measure website traffic.

Our expert suspected that he was flooding each visitor with a ton of files to generate hits. It is in fact what he is doing!

Each visit to his site downloads at least 98 separate files to your computer, just on the start page!

The 98 Files that get loaded for every page

More simple math shows that the 80,000 readers that he claims in February actually means that you have to divide that 80,000 by 98. By doing that, you get 816 hits in February, divide that by 28 days and what he is really getting is more like 29 visitors a day. If the unsuspecting visitor happens to click into another section or area, there's another 98 or more hits which further reduces the actual count.

Now it's really easy to see where his numbers come from.

3/3 UPDATE:

After additional testing of Halburn's counter, it was determined that it DOES NOT register unique visitors. As we suspected, each page click and/or refresh is counting as a visitor, so a simple refresh script or bot can drive that number up like crazy. Plus, just like was showed with the hits, the way that his page is designed, with the counter on each and every page, every link that he posts that someone clicks on registers as a "visitor".

For instance, let's say Joe Blow goes to his site. His counter counts that as one visitor, each and every link to a story that gets clicked counts as an additional "visitor", each page refresh counts as a "visitor". It also means that each time he edits it or looks at it himself, it registers as a "visitor".

So as Halburn crows about his numbers, PutnamLIES.com reveals the actual truth.
They're fraudulent. He knows it, but uses the inflated numbers to dupe unsuspecting advertisers, most of which pay nothing anyway. They also help him stroke his overblown ego.

So to his 29 readers, please pass the word about PutnumLIVE.com, Putnam County's Fraudulent News Loser!!!

He shouldn't mess with the computer geeks.