the biggest thing to take from this is to be very, very cautious about who you buy traffic from: I imagine everybody and their Momma will be bombarding us with fantastic offers and unbelievable click-thru rates.
Only those with short sight and as they will soon enough find out, a short life on the net; would be stupid enough to buy into this as a source for cheating us in the PPCs. But I think it will be rampantly used to fraud us in email spam offers. I’ve got one right now that spammed me, (but claims he didn’t; like I wouldn’t know) that I think might be using this very program to generate the traffic he’s wanting to sell me. I guess time and my “first time small investment for trial” will be the judge of that.
Rest assured if it don’t produce, I will be letting everyone know the name of the company.
they (the PPCs), especially the smaller ones that already get massive ill-legit clicks, already have their ROI driven so far down by cheats, that I can’t imagine it being a smart business move to pad the books any further than already has been done by their partners (or by themselves).
Just look around at those that have proven to be bad traffic in the past and you can see from history that they might dance in the sun for a while but in the end will never survive the winter; so to speak.
Or they might survive but with very few of the same people in upper management being around to tell how they did it. I use Search7 as one example where when things started falling off they dumped (? somebody) and replaced him with Joe(? somebody) .. a guy that came over from FW. that was a year or two back.
A better example is the site (can’t remember the name) that became Xuppa, ( I hope I don’t have this mixed-up). That place sucked big time, …. but then again, so does the newer version …. or so I’ve heard. I don’t think I’ve went back to give them another chance. Once burned twice shy and all that…
another example-in-motion is Kanoodle. watch it sink into oblivion in the coming 18 – 24 months. I will be very surprised to see it still around without having gone thru some major changes in admin in the next 2 yrs.
you know when a PPC is doing bad, just watch for the bid prices to fall off and when that happens, its time to start asking yourself if maybe you shouldn’t leave too because something ain’t right? Personally, if I’m making money at some place, you’d have to chase me away with a stick before I’d not be pressing the bids every day. As it is for everyone. so if prices start dropping, its time to lift your head and survey the meadow, its likely a predator is about.