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Quote:Over the past month I’ve purchased around 70K of this crap and I’ve received not even one signup.
That’s EXACTLY what happens and it’s infuriating that when you complain these sellers come back with the same inane and insulting stories “Oh, you dont have a proper landing page” or “Oh gee, it must be YOUR site. We have plenty of repeat customers”.
I wanted to strangle them when they said this stuff!
I bet if you do a search at these other forums and look back far enough you will find me ranting and raving about these traffic scams about three or four years ago. What’s sad is its STILL going on, despite years of warnings and complaints :flush:
What the professor said.
Absolutely and totally junk and scams and no one should ever touch this stuff.
Professor wrote:That’s EXACTLY what happens and it’s infuriating that when you complain these sellers come back with the same inane and insulting stories “Oh, you dont have a proper landing page” or “Oh gee, it must be YOUR site. We have plenty of repeat customers”.I wanted to strangle them when they said this stuff!
Your 100% right :clapper:
Glad to see someone who agrees with me & understands where I’m coming from on this topic. Thanx Professor
This latest moron was the straw that broke the camels back! It’s not the money but the principle Professor, that really stick in my neck. I’m spending between $100 – $200US a day on advertising so his pissy little $60 is of no concern to me. But I’ll get it back one way or another.
What’s worse is the nerve of this guy told me to remove any posts I’d made in trashing his traffic sales, you got to be sh#tting me :madat:
Well…The traffic stopped for a few days but now he’s started it again. It’s still coming from Asia which I thought I’d bought premium USA. He tired to justify this by saying Asia gambles the most of any Country. Yeah that maybe but the jump page is in English numb nuts.
Anyway, I’ve decided to redirect the jump page Casino Glamour front end I have. It now lands on Korean…As these are probably just cgi/php generated hits it at least gives me some sanity if nothing else.
Thanx 4 letting me vent
They are all scams…maybe we should create a blacklist of these bulk traffic scams and PPC seach engine scams so other affiliates and newbies will not get taken. We can make this list readily available in the forums.
It makes me sick that these bulk traffic scammers and PPC fraud artists are still up-and-running and taking our hard earned money.
I can provide some input into some PPC engines to avoid.
Don’t start me on scam PPC’s…lol
I burnt close to $180 in three days thru a Network of what I can only assume from my stats are crap. I’m edging towards redirected affiliate generated clicks. Has the whole net gone to the dogs or is just industries like ours that gets hit by scammers? Beats me!
Here’s one to start things, stay away from xxxhttp://www.brainfox.com
Hi All,
Near the bottom of my links directory is a section called “Traffic Builders“.
They get me some additional sales and are free to join. The three that work best for me are Traffic Swarm, ShowMyLinks and Link Buddies for banners.
They may help newbies or those without a huge budget.
Cheers!
slotplayer wrote:Traffic Swarm, ShowMyLinks and Link Buddies for banners.95% of these are full of MLM links, FFA (free for all) Links and so on, which basically equate to pages being link farms, banner farms and spam traps. Someone on a lean budget imo would do better by swapping recips links, submitting to MSN (URL’s don’t take long to be indexed) and also submitting to secondary SE’s & directories.
This places lists all the SE in the world:
xxxhttp://www.searchenginecolossus.comCheers
Seach engine colossus is a useful instrument for new sites.
I remember sitting there by the hour submitting my site. The results may not show right away, but in the long run it will help you. The more seach engines and directories you can get listed in, the better. No matter how small.
MLM ans FFA can hurt you with the engines and is definitely not worth it.
95% of these are full of MLM links, FFA (free for all) Links and so on, which basically equate to pages being link farms, banner farms and spam traps
Actually none of the three I mentioned in my previous post are any of the fore-mentioned. Never received a bit of spam from any of them. They are pretty respected businesses. I wouldn’t post them if I didn’t track sales from them. An FFA is a site like multilinks.net
Any SEO will tell you that submitting sites to SE’s nowadays isn’t really neccessary, they’ll eventually crawl them provided some basic optimization is done. Many of the smaller SE’s pull the results from the big ones anyways.
slotplayer wrote:Many of the smaller SE’s pull the results from the big ones anyways.If you care to wait for that…getting ranked well in google etc so little engine xxx will index you too….
When you are brand new little engine xxx is who will send you quality traffic – for free.
slotplayer wrote:Actually none of the three I mentioned in my previous post are any of the fore-mentioned. Never received a bit of spam from any of them. They are pretty respected businesses. I wouldn’t post them if I didn’t track sales from them. An FFA is a site like multilinks.netMaybe they’ve cleaned up their act :clapper:
No offense intended, but I still wouldn’t use them. You may get results in the short term but imo your long term SE results may suffer.slotplayer wrote:Any SEO will tell you that submitting sites to SE’s nowadays isn’t really neccessary, they’ll eventually crawl them provided some basic optimization is done. Many of the smaller SE’s pull the results from the big ones anyways.I agree they eventually get crawled, but for someone on a tight budget; also considering the time it takes to get into the likes of google for instance, submitting to secondaries & or any SE’s or Directories that don’t cost anything is worth it imo if we’re talking low end limited budget.
Cheers
I have to vouch for TrafficSwarm too. It doesn’t cost a cent to use them and I have also received some decent traffic from them.
I agree with Dom as well, when you are new, submitting to the smaller engines is worthwhile. I also used to spend endless hours manually submitting to them.
Now I just blast out a press release to 4 or 5 sites. Mostly for my eBay store and retail web site. These get picked up by the RSS feeds and actually show up in Google rather quickly. They’re good for a spike in traffic, just got to make sure you have some decent keywords up front. I’m curious though, I wonder if Google crawls the links in them? Anyone know?
Cheers
I don’t know that either, but I can vouch for press releases getting indexed very nicely in google.
ewhitaker wrote:I have to vouch for TrafficSwarm too. It doesn’t cost a cent to use them and I have also received some decent traffic from them.These days it can take up to 12 months to really notice the affect of using something that doesn’t do your SE ranking justice. Unfortunately it can take another 12 months to fix these mistakes.
