Paid Traffic Is Garbage
Posted by Wade | Posted in Internet Marketing And SEO | Posted on 27-01-2010
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Rarely do I bust my balls in an internet argument. Mostly because its hard to portray my weird sense of sarcasm in ASCII text. But unfortunately, I feel compelled to. Not because I’m being ripped off, but I feel so sorry for so many people being ripped off by “traffic sellers”.
Now lets get one thing straight, if a someone is selling you traffic. It is always shit traffic. I don’t care how many reviews the seller has, or how well other people say the service is. Its shit traffic. If it was good, buying traffic, or even traffic that would enter their email into something. The seller would be directing this traffic to his own sites, or a CPA email submit. Not selling it to you for half a cent a visit.
Some people have taking their BS’ing to another level. Telling me its “Expired Domain” traffic. For one, they are passing out hundreds of thousands of visits from these “Expired Domains”. If i had a domain, that was getting thousands of hits as soon as i registered it. I would have thought i hit a goldmine. And i sure as hell wouldn’t be selling those hits for peanuts! What’s worse is that this “Expired Domain” traffic comes with some catches :
- Url(s) may not contain any popup ads of any type.
- Url(s) may not play any sounds upon page load.
- Url(s) may not contain adult content, Hate, Warez
- Url(s) may not break out of frames.
- Url(s) may not use site rotation, redirection, or forwarding.
- Url(s) may not load virus or force any downloads.
- Url(s) may not take more than 5 seconds to load.
- Url(s) may not disrupt the traffic delivery process.
Without even going through them individually, there is something wrong here. The last one pretty much sums up the lot, “Url(s) may not disrupt the traffic delivery process”. This to me seems extremely strange. What is the traffic delivery process? Shouldn’t the traffic just be forward to our domains? Or is it iframed to us? In either case what should it matter what the content, forwarding or redirecting are on the site. Because if the traffic is pure expired domain traffic, the traffic that went to that domain are probably completely lost. And don’t know what they are looking for.
“Url(s) may not break out of frames”. Heh, well isn’t that a surprise. Doesnt every Pay To Click/Traffic Exchange website in existance have this rule? *hint hint*




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