Anyone using Traffic-Bug?

BrightLife · 09-21-2009, 06:40 AM

I let Traffic Bug run for 4 sites since about 30 days. No measurable traffic increase, nearly no new backlinks. What ever it does, it doesn´t do it effectively. I had much more success with a backlink supplier who built 100 backlinks for me at a ridiculous price. 30 of them survived over time. I another case it was less, but in the end it was much more than TB does.

Stuckster · 09-21-2009, 07:01 AM

I've just purchased Traffic Bug on the recommendation of the 30DC crew.

I haven't trialed it yet so I'm not speaking from experience...but it's hard to imagine the creators implementing a monthly pricing model if the software doesn't work. Most people with the skills to use the software will pretty quickly know if it's not.

If it really doesn't work then everyone would simply unsubscribe after 2 months leaving them with no viable business model. I think these guys seem a little more committed than that.

If they were charging a $297 upfront fee, then I'd be a tad skeptical, but otherwise I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt. But would still be very keen to hear the ongoing results from others testing though.

I also noticed that no Traffic bug representative has responded to any of the criticisms. I hope they find time to do so.

cheers
Stuckster

curtroese · 09-21-2009, 07:59 AM

I agree that it would be nice to hear from the owner of the product to address some of the concerns from "actual users", of which I am one. Obviously the directory submissions might take months and may never be that relevant, RSS feed submission seems pretty cut and dry, it seems like the real question is revolving around the effectiveness of their social bookmarking module.

tdpubs · 09-21-2009, 09:28 AM

I was introduced to traffic -- bug or another program that I love to use old mansion in here. But I was also given the advice to use it for about two months before making a decision on whether I founded very useful or just useful. It's been a couple of weeks and I check in on it every few days to see how it's going. It was easy to set up and I find it extremely profitable in terms of time management. Thank you very much for this program and I hope to make my evaluation at the end of two months.

Dennis Francis

KelvinLee · 09-21-2009, 10:25 AM

I also got into traffic bug with the introduction by 30 dc. I personally is a market samurai user and find it an extremely good product.

Therefore I trust the recommendation by those guys in market samurai as they have actually make market samurai with built in traffic bug program. I bet those market samurai creator will not want to jeopardize their reputation for a 19.95 monthly product commission.

I have signed up for traffic bug and have been submitted to it daily. If I got any good news from the linking, I will let you guys know.

Lou Macdonald · 09-21-2009, 12:18 PM

Oh dear this thread has confirmed my suspicions, like others before me I haven't seen a single link. I hope they get it fixed as I would be wonderful if it worked, but I won't be carrying on after the trial.
Good luck Traffic Bug, and anyone who pays for the service.

Abdul Aziz · 09-21-2009, 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Abdul Aziz

I've also used it and have yet to see any backlinks show up. It's been about two weeks and I still see no evidence that all of the bookmarking the program claims to have done has been done. Hopefully something changes in the next week or two, because so far I'm not impressed.

Well, as of today, which is about three weeks since I sumbitted my information into Traffic Bug, nothing has changed. I have yet to see a single backlink show up in the search engines after the hundreds of directory submissions and bookmarks the Traffic Bug software says it did for me. Strange. And apparantly, I'm not the only one having this problem. I certainly won't be paying any money for this.

LilBlackDress · 09-21-2009, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by mpruben

I recently ran an extensive SEO test where I developed six sites with similar but unique content. I used different techniques to promote each site. For example, on one site I only used blog commenting, on another site I only used social bookmarks etc. On one site I exclusively used Traffic Bug with their 30-day trial. It reported numerous bookmarks and directory submissions.

I kept a careful check on when each site was indexed, when it received the first visitor, keyword rankings etc. The experiment started about 6 weeks ago so is still in its early stages.

Out of the six sites, five have been indexed and are receiving visitors in varying quantities.

The only site not yet indexed is the one exclusively using Traffic bug.

Your results may vary, but I'm not paying for this one.

This is really interesting. Do you think it is because of the sites ie low quality or because Google knows its automated? or what?

Also do you feel there is any penalty with Google doing only one type of backlinking?

anteck · 09-22-2009, 12:47 AM

Wow...

It's Reassuring to read that i'm not the only person who's had ZERO results with this product. I thought i might cop some flack for saying it, but turns out i was right on the money...

My trial just ended. I didn't upgrade. Whatever they are doing, it aint working.

Pity the creator hasn't piped up at all since all these reports. He's a member on here and all.

Michael, whats the go with your product?

anteck · 09-22-2009, 12:55 AM

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Originally Posted by dou9las

I did the free trial for 30 day challenge. My experience was essentially the same as chrisqw, Abdul Aziz, HollandsFinest, etc.

Sure, the software "reports" that it's doing all this work, saving you tons of time. However, I have also yet to see ONE backlink - ONE social bookmark, or ONE actual live directory listings.

Yes, my email account was spammed with a bunch of "thanks for submitting, we'll let you know if it gets approved.." nonsense emails from these alleged directories they submit to. Again, have not seen one actually go live.

Meanwhile, when I do a simple blog post, and run it through SocialMarker, with just the 5 or so top bkmrking platforms, I can go to google within hours and confirm the bkmrk is in place (i.e. that it got done ) at the very least, just by doing simple searchs either at digg, mixx, or even in GGL. Could never confirm any of the bkmrks done by TB.

I tried to raise my hand and speak up about this on the 30DC forum - only to be hissed and booed at by Caro and others over there for being a big ol meanie head party pooper negative thinker.

I used to have a LOT of respect for the whole 30DC concept, and I still will not argue about how much valuable info they do provide in the training, knowing full well it is a pre-sell lead generating exercise (and a fairly brilliant one.)

So when I heard about Traffic Bug from the 30DC, I was excited by the concept, and I *believed* they were actually providing a tangible, real service. However, I did not receive that by any measure.

Had I become a paid member after the trial, I would have raised hell until my money was refunded, essentially on the grounds of feeling "defrauded" in the sense that none of the actual services promised were ever delivered, despite the elaborate mechanism they have developed to generate "proof" that all this work is being done (i.e. all the fancy back office reports etc.)

And it brought me no new traffic. The traffic I do get is from my own articles, maunual backlinks, and SocialMarker efforts.

Big disappointment, don't bother.

Hey,

I was reading that thread and actually commented on it as well, before Caro closed it and ED told everyone to stop worrying about Traffic bug.

I really lost a lot of respect for them after that. ED explained that traffic bug is about getting indexed. But traffic bug explain it's about getting backlinks!

I've NEVER needed any kind of program to get indexed most of my sites now take around 3 hours for new articles to get indexed.

I have an assistant who does manual bookmarking for new articles, she does about 12-14 for each article. Around 1/3 of these are showing up for articles written 2 weeks ago. However, Traffic bug tried to convince me it's done like 50 bookmarks, but none of them cannot be found?

Total waste of time... i recommend to everyone to do manual bookmarking, it's the only way to go.

anwar001 · 09-22-2009, 04:14 AM

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Originally Posted by CaseWhitney

Yes, I'm doing the challenge(3rd year now).

Here's the day for Traffic Bug. It has the special 30dc sign up for traffic bug on the sidebar and some intro videos on how to use for the challenge.

Thirty Day Challenge 2009 - Day 08

Thanks for the useful share.

FifthDimension5 · 09-22-2009, 06:49 AM

I have five sites of my own. I have used Traffic Bug for three of them and they have been indexed and ranked well with many backlinks. Granted, Google may not count some of the links that traffic bug makes as social bookmark backlinks but in due course of time they would be recognized and count as backlinks. If somebody thinks site not indexed just because of using Traffic Bug, I think it is probably due to some other cause. A site cant get penalized for building links at any rate (if it were so, a competitor can buy lots of links to your website thus causing your rankings to fall).

Gentleman Hypnotist · 09-27-2009, 12:41 PM

I'm trying traffic bug as part of the thirty day challenge and although I am getting some submissions and link backs, my site is not being listed properly and I'll have to go back and re-list in every directory and search engine again so that it is listed properly.

I've gotten several twitter followers but they are all spam marketers that post only quotes and links to their products (some with over 30k followers that are all spammers just like them)

Right now I really don't see the use for it. I see people trying to take the easy road and have an automated bot that isn't quite right.

I'm going back to doing this manually. Many of the directories are small and don't help with traffic for my site.

The best way to build traffic is not to spam on facebook and twitter and just build good content for your site. Then submit to those sites and directories that are legit.

I think many of the people loving this software are from the thirty day challenge and I don't think they are really giving you the full facts.

Or they may just have different products that do well with twitter and facebook spamming. I think many of these folks are just marketing - marketing and are trying to get you to try/but the software to get a linkback and affilate commision.

If it sounds too good to be true then it usually is.

Content is king and all that other stuff will just piss people off and the worst part is you will probably never know it and think you are doing great until someone finally speaks up.

I'm that someone. I tried all the 30dc products and didn't buy a one. I'm doing fine using web CEO, wordpress with Godaddy and these items are free.

Have a great product, provide great service and do lead generation just like any good business plan and you will do well. And have a referral plan for satisfied customers. It's Sales 101 and it still works wonders. I've made over 10k with my site in a competitive marketplace this year so far.

I do think that the 30dc is a good free instruction starting ground. Some people just get caught up in the hype and buy into everything they sell and the marketing offers are great lessons to be copied but not to buy into. I'm glad they had the free trials and I do think they honestly want people to do well with their projects. Copy what they do and how they do it becausae they obviously have a following delivering good content.

pearsonbrown · 09-28-2009, 09:18 AM

My traffic-bug free trial has just finished and I'm definitely not moving onto the free version. I've seen no sign that it has achieved anything of note. All I've got are a few emails from some fairly dodgy-looking 'directories'.

if you're starting out from scratch, you'd be much better advised to build sites on Squidoo, Wordpress.com etc and link these into your money site rather than wasting your time on this.

Pearson

Pufferf1sh · 09-28-2009, 03:20 PM

Hi, I have been using Traffic Bug on the free trial from 30DC now for about 2 weeks now, and my experience so far has been similar to the other posters on this thread. Whilst it has a great interface, quick support and impressive numbers reported, I have to say it is a disappointment so far.

My site's apparently been bookmarked a healthy 919 times, but what is not so healthy is that I cannot find much trace of this activity. New posts and 2.0 sites have not been indexed and no backlinks show up on yahoo siteexplorer plus a couple of other trackers. The only indication that something was going on was the odd confirmation email sent from directories (4 or 5 emails from around 49 that my site was submitted to).

Wanting something a bit more substantial, I visited a number of their bookmarking sites and searched for the tags I had entered using the site's software. Only one or two showed any links (Delicious and Indian Pad for example). Most of the bookmarks I thought I'd found were ones that I submitted manually months back.

So, I have another 3 weeks of free trial to go and I will give it a little bit more of a chance. Having said that, I know that if I had spent the time making manual submissions to Digg, StumbleUpon, Furl etc. instead of writing dozens of descriptions for TB, then I would have seen more result.

Definitely a bit of a disappointment so far for me, and I'm not ready to pay the monthly fee after the trial (about $20 through 30DC). I think they rushed it out in time for the 30DC and hadn't quite got all the sites they wanted unlocked, plus had a few bugs. The 30DC has several products associated with it and by far the best by an absolute mile is Market Samurai. I was hoping Traffic Bug would fall into the same category but so far it falls way short. Now if they had gone the route of adding a social bookmarking function to Market Samurai itself, now that would have been something.

(As an aside, I've just gone back to Traffic Bug to logout and its added another bookmark - whoo hoo!)

Also it would be interesting if Michael Roberts could revisit this thread to give TB a bit of a talking up and an update. In the meantime I am wondering what other products are out there as an alternative if Traffic Bug doesn't shape up?

Bookmarking Demon?
using Socialmarker.com?

Any suggestions would be great...

PS
For anyone interested, here are the bookmarking sites Traffic Bug say they submit to:

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A1Webmarks, Bookmark Tracker, Fark, Google Bookmarks, Indian Pad, MyLinkVault, Searchles, Cloudy Tags, White Links, Bookmax, EasyBM, Spurl, DZone, Delicious, Weblinkr, Suptoronto, Backflip, Damnsexy, Kredyty, Mpog, Scuttle, Kredyty, Tagza, Dizzed, Blurpalicious, Bukmark, Simpy, URL Bookmarks, Quadriot, Propeller.

robkat · 09-29-2009, 05:09 AM

Hmmm. Reading all these posts encouraged me to look at my indexing and see just where my 23 ylinks came from. Many were from a friend in facebook/friend feed, quite a few were from comments I'd made on blogs such as Andy Jenkin's new blog, a couple were from facebook media center and propeller, one was from little web directory dot com and one came from romania index dot com. My satellite sites such as hubpages, weebly, squidoo and ezine articles made up most of the rest of the links.

Guess I've just saved myself $20/month. Thanks as always to everyone in here for their unbiased views of the program.

Kathy

schnisz · 09-29-2009, 09:16 AM

I think its quite telling that this Michael Roberts has all but vanished from this thread since everybody has been exposing Traffic Bug as ineffective. Maybe he's working hard in his lab trying to fix his program! So what are some alternatives so some of these tasks? I love SeNuke, but too pricey for me at this point.

weegie · 10-01-2009, 02:23 AM

I have a few FREE days left and after reading the comments here I am not sure about extending it at $20 per month.

I did get an email about a $97 seminar which is free IF you sign up to a paid subscription in the next couple of days.

Still on the fence

W

Chris Warburton · 10-01-2009, 06:56 PM

Glad I found this thread before I jumped in and signed up for there monthly subscription...

I guess it a bit of wait an see.

Chris

digitalpimps · 10-02-2009, 02:22 AM

I got a 40day trial from 30DC for traffic-bug.com, so I tried it on one of my sites that sat on page 1 spot #7 in an attempt to get a higher page 1 position..much to my dismay a few days later my site had disappeared from page 1 to page 4 and I'm getting hell trying to move it back up the serps.
I was doing no other promotion to the site at the time besides traffic-bug.
Thank you Traffic-BUG

Pufferf1sh · 10-02-2009, 07:34 AM

Well - the negative feedback is steadily building up and still no return to the thread from Michael Roberts. Although having said that, mostly people are reporting a minimal return rather than something bad actually happening using the Traffic Bug service. I don't think using traffic bug is going to negatively affect any of your sites, only that the numbers they report are not necessarily accurate.

I hope Michael can report the improvements that are being made to rectify this. I for one want to know what it actually means when it says it has made, say, 900 bookmarks. Does that mean 900 bookmarks submitted? attempted? successful? If this number is just automatically generated and doesn't relate to any bookmarks then that is a BIG kick in the mouth for the product as it is deliberately misleading. Not a very good way to attract and keep paying customers! Still, a free trial is a free trial: everything free and no obligations.

Carm · 10-02-2009, 04:56 PM

I didn't take up my offer for Traffic Bug either.

After searching for bookmarks back to my sites, the only ones I found were the ones I had done myself.

Sure there have been a couple of directories accepting the sites and several emails saying the sites would be reviewed but nothing from the other linking options.

The tool offered much more than directory submissions, so, sorry Traffic Bug, you did look and sound like a wonderful tool, maybe next year....

MissEvonne · 10-02-2009, 05:39 PM

Today is the last day of my free trial so I was hoping to find info here at WF. I suspected as much, I submitted 5 sites, numerous articles and 1 blog and nothing???
Thanks again everyone for your input.

macknox · 10-02-2009, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by GreggT

I rarely post but read a lot and will reveal the best content syndication system I know of because I use it for some of my SEO clients and I KNOW it works, and works so very well. See results in a matter of a day or two.

It utilizes Digg, Reddit, Twitter, soon-to-be 50+ social bookmarking and video syndication sites to be added.

Use tokens to make bookmarks unique, auto and semi-auto credits.

Just wonderful.. if anyone disagrees with me please let me know!

You get a ton of info with this monthly membership, a little on the high side but not in terms of what you get in return.

You may of heard of it, if not GO HERE, I believe they have a $1 trial!!

Wait a minute let me add my aff link for bmd4

hmmm..
Just signed in for free trail of Traffic Bug.
Looks nice but... another feeling of deja vu.
We really should know better by now... free trials... indeed.

It's the "give them tons of free training bait and sell them a recurring offer " routine. I don't mind if it really works.
In terms of marketing the product nicely done... but not enough proof
We would all love to have a push button solution.
I think the reality of web marketing is just hard graft.
It still boils down to quality content.
Problem with TB is that you don't know which sites they are using.

I might as well as stick with Bookmarking Demon- at least that's a one off cost... and you have some control of sites submitted to. Requires more work as you can set up multiple accounts and usernames... but what do you expect you lazy dolts

I'll test out a few sites and see what happens.

KaylaB · 10-02-2009, 10:04 PM

Well, I am glad I am not alone. I keep getting reports that my sites have been submitted to x number of directories and y social bookmarks, but to date none of them them have showed up on Yahoo site explorer - so where are they?

To be fair, I have received emails from directories saying that my site has been submitted, but to be honest they do not look like directories that would carry any weight.

So, I paid for one month, but I am not sure I am going to waste any more money. Yes, I am very disappointed with Traffic Bug - and I sounded so promising.

mistyone · 10-02-2009, 10:50 PM

I too used Traffic Bug which I joined on August the 25th but after my trial period ended I couldn't feel confident enough to pay $24.95 a month (which it was then) when I couldn't see anything showing up in the way of back links.

I understand that these things can take time and that they were wanting our links to be propagated over a period of time, to look natural, but I still can't see anything that resembles the list given here

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A1Webmarks, Bookmark Tracker, Fark, Google Bookmarks, Indian Pad, MyLinkVault, Searchles, Cloudy Tags, White Links, Bookmax, EasyBM, Spurl, DZone, Delicious, Weblinkr, Suptoronto, Backflip, Damnsexy, Kredyty, Mpog, Scuttle, Kredyty, Tagza, Dizzed, Blurpalicious, Bukmark, Simpy, URL Bookmarks, Quadriot, Propeller.

so I am pleased I never became a paid member.

I did however join another program a couple of weeks ago for back links and I am already seeing these back links in yahoo explore, so I am over the moon with the results I am seeing from this other program.

If at any point in the future I see the links that should be coming from what Traffic Bug did, in the time I was in the free trial, I will certainly look at it again, as once you are set up, the principal is a really good idea, but only if it works

gcintermed · 10-02-2009, 11:00 PM

Well, I was on the verge of signing up to Traffic Bug which is offering a special promotion and looked really good. But reading through this whole thread has convinced me to hold off.

And I think there is a lesson here... It's not so important what a program DOES but rather what RESULTS it produces. T-B has been brilliant in its marketing by focusing our attention on all that it is doing and all the time it is saving. Many of us just assumed that the results would follow automatically. But they don't...

Especially when you are using some type of program designed to "game" the system. These types of "shortcuts" are almost always discovered and then rendered ineffective. It reminds me of a program I once bought which auto-posted ads to Craigslist. Whereas previously I could only manually post 5-10 ads per day, with the new program, I could post hundreds. Just one problem though- none of those ads ever showed up.

Let's not forget, it's the results that matter most.

LostSteak · 10-03-2009, 04:06 AM

Thanks for your reviews. I was going to buy the product just on the sales letter, I'm really glad I did some research and found this forum post first.

-LS

howdab2 · 10-03-2009, 09:34 AM

Not impressed here... It didnt do much for my 30DC site, I ended up selling my 30dc site, and about a month later, I get all these emails saying the site has been bookmarled etc LoL... a little late for having selected high aggression on the bookmarking...

Ive chosen to save $24 a month and use onlywire, or just do the stuff myself...

Howard

lanta99 · 10-03-2009, 10:48 AM

I have used Traffic Bug too, and honestly I don't see any actual improvements for my websites rankings. Although I get tons of confirmation emails from various directories I haven't seen any actual solid back links coming to my website. In fact I could not find my website on any of the major social bookmarking sites?

A suggestion? I really wished that they actually gave you a report of all the backlinks that they got you rather than displaying "You have saved x amount of hours, and your website has been submitted to x amount of directories and x amount of social bookmarking website".

Anyways, since this product was recommended to me by Ed whom I have great respect for, I'll give it another month to see if I start getting some results.

ASCW · 10-04-2009, 04:38 AM

I've been using Traffic Bug. The fellows at 30dc say that you need to let Traffic Bug do its thing for 2 or so months before any real results are seen. I'm not advocating the software, but I figure I'm willing to pay 1-2 months subscription and give it a fair try.

sannyboy · 10-05-2009, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by mistyone

I did however join another program a couple of weeks ago for back links and I am already seeing these back links in yahoo explore, so I am over the moon with the results I am seeing from this other program.

If at any point in the future I see the links that should be coming from what Traffic Bug did, in the time I was in the free trial, I will certainly look at it again, as once you are set up, the principal is a really good idea, but only if it works

Hi Misty - would you mind letting us newer guys in on the name of the service you joined please?!

Thanks!

GaryHarvey · 10-05-2009, 07:21 PM

Yes please Misty. I was going to post the same request.

I checked your sig... hoping a link was there, but it doesnt seem to be.

Gary

mistyone · 10-05-2009, 08:38 PM

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Yes please Misty. I was going to post the same request.

I checked your sig... hoping a link was there, but it doesnt seem to be.

Gary

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Hi Misty - would you mind letting us newer guys in on the name of the service you joined please?!

Thanks!
sannyboy

Of course. I am not affiliated to this product as they have no affiliate program running for it and it is free to join. The program will only get better with more people joining.

It is called Automatic Backlinks and the link is to the FAQ page as it is important you understand how it works. It does have a paid subscription starting at $10 but to start off with you can gain 100 free link credits, to use for your backlinks which is what I am using.

There is another useful tool I know of as well and it is a wordpress plugin which at the moment is only working for wordpress versions 2.0.2 up to 2.8.0 as I found it won't show up in your plugin admin area, in versions 2.8.2 and 2.8.4, even though it is showing in the folder on your server, you just can't use it. I have contacted the owner of the plugin and he said he will be referring it to his programmer, so hopefully they will do an update for it. It is available from wordpress and this is the link: WordPress › Contextual Partnership Link Advertising Plugin WordPress Plugins

I hope this is useful to you

Cheers
Viv

GaryHarvey · 10-05-2009, 09:02 PM

Thanks Viv.

I didnt know about Automatic Backlinks - Frequently Asked Questions so thanks for that one.

Am already using Duncan's FREE Contextual Link Exchange Plugin For WordPress ? Contextual Partnership
A little tip. If your site gets rejected first time round, de-activate the plugin
for 24 hours and then activate it again. After you fix whatever
might have caused your rejection. It's other users who accept/
reject your WP blog so just try again.

Gary

mistyone · 10-05-2009, 09:36 PM

Hi Gary

There is a lot of user control with automatic backlinks as well. You may not want to link to a site that the system placed a link on or you may not want to have as many backlinks coming from a particular site, like I didn't and have deleted some

You do have quite a lot of control within your account. I am finding it really good so far.

Cheers
Viv

pavionjsl · 10-05-2009, 09:45 PM

After checking all my submissions to TB 1 backlink. Pretty Idea, useless results.

Got 543 links to other blogs from other methods last week but not from TB.

Daniel McGonagle · 10-07-2009, 10:07 AM

You have to give Traffic bug, and any other link building service for that matter...TIME!

It will take you 2 months minimum to see results with TB, and you also need to realize that you can't just stop with adding your main site urls.

Use their Related URLs feature to develop deep links to your site.
Put every single site you have in TB to get your RSS and site submissions done for you, then in another week, start building links to your money pages.

After 3 months you'll definitely see results if you use the related URLs feature more and more

The Link Juicer & Traffic Bug reviews - Link Building Tips + Link building Services

I'm doing some case studies if you're still on the fence about this, or getting discouraged...

It's definitely a time saver, but saving you time from doing what? That's the real question.. what effective SEO techniques are really being done for you here?

melanied · 10-08-2009, 07:33 PM

WOW! I'm glad I read through this thread before purchasing!

sanjid112 · 10-08-2009, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Daniel McGonagle

You have to give Traffic bug, and any other link building service for that matter...TIME!

It will take you 2 months minimum to see results with TB, and you also need to realize that you can't just stop with adding your main site urls.

Use their Related URLs feature to develop deep links to your site.
Put every single site you have in TB to get your RSS and site submissions done for you, then in another week, start building links to your money pages.

After 3 months you'll definitely see results if you use the related URLs feature more and more

I'm doing some case studies if you're still on the fence about this, or getting discouraged...

It's definitely a time saver, but saving you time from doing what? That's the real question.. what effective SEO techniques are really being done for you here?

Well, thanks. that give me insight. I wandering why it not work effectively like I expected. I just adding my main site URL on it. so that why it is not effective enough.

dou9las · 10-09-2009, 01:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Daniel McGonagle

You have to give Traffic bug, and any other link building service for that matter...TIME!

It will take you 2 months minimum to see results with TB, and you also need to realize that you can't just stop with adding your main site urls.

Use their Related URLs feature to develop deep links to your site.
Put every single site you have in TB to get your RSS and site submissions done for you, then in another week, start building links to your money pages.

After 3 months you'll definitely see results if you use the related URLs feature more and more

The Link Juicer & Traffic Bug reviews - Link Building Tips + Link building Services

I'm doing some case studies if you're still on the fence about this, or getting discouraged...

It's definitely a time saver, but saving you time from doing what? That's the real question.. what effective SEO techniques are really being done for you here?

All due respect...many of us that have posted on this thread have made it fairly clear that "lack of patience" is hardly responsible for TB's effectiveness being called into question.

I for one, and many others on this thread, actually do understand that backlinking and social bookmarking do in fact take time to yield results. That's SEO 101, in essence.

However, many of us actually know how to find out if anything has actually been done by TB, much less measuring results. We are finding no verifiable links or submissions being created with Traffic Bug.

This recent post by pavionjsl does a great job of illustrating the point:

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Originally Posted by pavionjsl

After checking all my submissions to TB 1 backlink. Pretty Idea, useless results.

Got 543 links to other blogs from other methods last week but not from TB.

Daniel McGonagle · 10-11-2009, 08:24 AM

Hey Doug, I went to the effort of writing for you and others a lengthy response, but it got deleted, so good luck to those of you using TB.

Good luck with your tests

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Originally Posted by dou9las

All due respect...many of us that have posted on this thread have made it fairly clear that "lack of patience" is hardly responsible for TB's effectiveness being called into question.

I for one, and many others on this thread, actually do understand that backlinking and social bookmarking do in fact take time to yield results. That's SEO 101, in essence.

However, many of us actually know how to find out if anything has actually been done by TB, much less measuring results. We are finding no verifiable links or submissions being created with Traffic Bug.

This recent post by pavionjsl does a great job of illustrating the point:

EZ20Now · 10-11-2009, 04:26 PM

Hello All!

I don't know why some of the previous threads got deleted, so I'm not sure if this one will be as well. Hopefully not, as it's my first one here!

The summary of what I see above is this:

1. Most Traffic Bug users here have seen little, if any, measurable results from the program, in terms of traffic or verifiable backlinks.
2. The CEO of the company hasn't seen fit to follow up on any of the concerns expressed in this thread, even though it's in his best interest to do so, because we all want it to work!
3. The support department for Traffic Bug is completely useless, except when it comes to helping you give them your money!
4. In spite of all of this, the 30DC gang still stands behind Traffic Bug.
5. No matter what program you use, or if you use any program at all, backlinks from bookmarks take a while to be recognized.

If I may, I'd like to make the following observation based on the above summary:

Here is where I think those of us who know what we're doing get stuck:

Yes, we know it takes a while to see backlinks from bookmarks. However, if you look at all of the comments in this thread, invariably, without one exception, it's the case that the only backlinks that can be verified by any of us are the bookmarks that either we create ourselves, manually, or that other tools we are using create. One person on here said that they could verify one backlink. Only one!

Are you kidding? Am I the only one who sees something wrong with this?

This whole thing could be resolved if Traffic Bug simply produced a more detailed report that included the URL's to all of the work they claim their software has performed. That would solve the entire problem, and everyone here would be extremely delighted to sing Traffic Bug's praises from rooftops all over the world.

I have personally been promised an email from Michael Roberts twice from their "support" department. Nothing. Their support submission system says that they respond to support requests within 24 hours. They don't, and I can prove it. I asked their "support" department a very basic question just to see if they would know the answer (specifically, I asked them if it was a good idea to have keyword-rich anchor text in a backlink. Their answer? "We forwarded your email to our CEO so that he can answer this question personally." That was two weeks ago, and I still have heard nothing!!!

Are you kidding me? How can they not know the answer to something so basic?

The only saving grace in this whole mess is Ed Dale. I have great respect for this man, and believe him to be a man of honor (even though he recently kind of "dissed" me on another unrelated matter of great importance). I believe him to be a man of his word and not just someone giving away free classes to promote a bunch of affiliate stuff. So in spite of all of this, I'm going to hang in there for a while, but I'm going to document everything online for the whole world to see, good or bad. My feeling is that if this turns out to be a failure, Ed will be more disappointed than anyone in this forum, or anywhere else, and he'll be man enough to say so in front of the whole world. However, if this Traffic-Bug proves to be just a drain on my already overly-strained budget, and Ed remains silent, I will have lost a lot of the respect for him that he's earned from me over the years. I truly hope this will not be the case.

By the way, I thought everyone here might find this interesting, to say the least!

I just did analysis on the Traffic Bug website for backlinks. Here are the results:

They have 3890 backlinks to their domain:

PR 5: 1 page: Someone's twitter account, who doesn't appear to be related to them.
PR 4: 1 page: A page about twitter theme backgrounds
PR 3: 3 pages: 2 people's blogs and Traffic Bug's own friend feed
PR 2: 2 pages: 2 blogs, one in a language that is not English
PR 1: 3 pages: one forum, the 30DC friendfeed, and another guy's blog

If you haven't noticed yet, none of these appear to be from their own software!!!

Everything else is Page Rank '0'. And the vast majority of those are from a whole lot of people's friendfeed accounts, the seochat forum, the v7n forum,and digitalpoint's forum! Again, NOTHING verifiable from Traffic Bug! I didn't see even one bookmark!

My gosh! If it's not working even on their own site, what are the chances it will work for we poor slobs!

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After reading back over all that I've written here, I want everyone here to know (including Michael Roberts and Ed Dale, if they are reading this) that I am going to put up a whole site devoted to this subject. I don't have a name for it yet, but I am tired of seeing good people get kicked around by people who want to make a quick buck. So, to Michael, be prepared. I am about to document everything your program is doing vs. what you and your pseudo-support department claim it's doing - for better or worse! I sure hope it proves out to be everything it says it is, and that Ed says it is. However, as I sit here today, I've gotta tell ya, it's not looking good so far!

Actually, I already wrote a really long post about this detailing my experience, and I was going to put it into the 30DC forum in hopes of at least warning the 30DC guys of my findings, but it was too long to insert into a post there, and it's probably too long for here as well. So as soon as I get that site up, I will put my content there, and post the link here. I'll also do the SEO on it so that it can be found on Google. (I don't think I'll be using Traffic-Bug for that particular project though!

I have a complete list of the links they have, which I will also have available on the site I set up. (Man, this is bad!)

However, once again, Ed Dale says Traffic Bug works, so we'll see! If Ed says it works in spite of all of this overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that's good enough for me...... for now.

pearsonbrown · 10-11-2009, 04:40 PM

I checked back through this thread. No post by Daniel McGonagle has been deleted from this thread by a moderator.

Posts by dou9las were eliminated because he broke the rules about "bashing". I sent him a PM explaining why.

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dou9las · 10-11-2009, 04:46 PM

Couldn't agree more with your post more EZ20Now.

And I applaud your willingness to document this in what I think is fair to call an unbiased fashion.

I too, despite what I have said on previous posts, some deleted and others not, very much have a lot of respect for Ed Dale as a teacher and an expert at IM.

I am just puzzled by this particular TB phenomenon (i.e. why Mike wouldn't just either fix or clarify the issues) and yet the intervening, undying 30DC support for TB in its present state.

4thstreet · 10-11-2009, 05:00 PM

Am I the only one who totally loves Traffic Bug?
I've taken brand new sites that had no other promotion than that from Traffic Bug and these are receiving visitors (targeted visitors).

When I add a url for a new page to a site and hit the submit button within 24 hours my visitor count goes up.

Can I see these links if I check for backlinks? No. However there have been many times that I can see a direct correlation between submitting a page and seeing visitors on that exact page.

I recently submitted a new Squidoo page that had several different products on it, but my titles and keywords only focused on 1 product and I am seeing sales for that 1 product.

I've been a member of Traffic Bug for a few months (and no I am not an affiliate) and I love it.

I do other back linking and social bookmarking however, with each method I take a few different pages or sites and only use 1 method so that I can see if it really is working and how well it works.

I'm highly satisfied with Traffic Bug

EZ20Now · 10-11-2009, 05:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dou9las

Couldn't agree more with your post more EZ20Now.

And I applaud your willingness to document this in what I think is fair to call an unbiased fashion.

I too, despite what I have said on previous posts, some deleted and others not, very much have a lot of respect for Ed Dale as a teacher and an expert at IM.

I am just puzzled by this particular TB phenomenon (i.e. why Mike wouldn't just either fix or clarify the issues) and yet the intervening, undying 30DC support for TB in its present state.

Yes. This is very puzzling to me as well. And yes, my intent is to be as un-biased as possible. As I said above, I want this to work! I think we all do! However, there's an old saying that certainly applies here:

Quote:

"Documentation beats representation every time!"

Their reports are simple excel spreadsheets with some numbers thrown on them. Well....anyone can do that! I'll tell you what... everyone here send me $20 right now, and I'll send each one of you a spread sheet that says I posted 500 bookmarks for you! How about 1,000? I'll do any amount you want, and I'll do it all for only $20! (WOW! That would give "EZ20Now" a whole new meaning, now wouldn't it? LOL

) Any takers??? Anyone???

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cypherslock · 10-11-2009, 05:14 PM

EZ20Now I absolutely want to see this site when it is live. I think it is a great idea. Let us know!

dou9las · 10-11-2009, 05:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 4thstreet

Am I the only one who totally loves Traffic Bug?
I've taken brand new sites that had no other promotion than that from Traffic Bug and these are receiving visitors (targeted visitors).

When I add a url for a new page to a site and hit the submit button within 24 hours my visitor count goes up....

...I recently submitted a new Squidoo page that had several different products on it, but my titles and keywords only focused on 1 product and I am seeing sales for that 1 product.

I honestly wish I could say the same. Back during the 30DC, I submitted a main site along with several other urls, one of which is hub page. I just did a link:domain.com over at yahoo, and found that indeed, TB did create 2 directory links for that hub. They are here:

superpromo.com
Web Directory | just for You

If you take a look at these..."directories" I think you will agree that they are almost not legible - as in, complete sentences can be seen with no spaces between words, etc.

They look like very quickly slapped together robot generated link farms, frankly.

I too was using TB almost exclusively for generating traffic, when I first launched the project, because I wanted to see how it performed.

The only particular spike in traffic I ever got was when I started running PPC.

EZ20Now · 10-11-2009, 05:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 4thstreet

Am I the only one who totally loves Traffic Bug?
I've taken brand new sites that had no other promotion than that from Traffic Bug and these are receiving visitors (targeted visitors).

When I add a url for a new page to a site and hit the submit button within 24 hours my visitor count goes up.

Can I see these links if I check for backlinks? No. However there have been many times that I can see a direct correlation between submitting a page and seeing visitors on that exact page.

I recently submitted a new Squidoo page that had several different products on it, but my titles and keywords only focused on 1 product and I am seeing sales for that 1 product.

I've been a member of Traffic Bug for a few months (and no I am not an affiliate) and I love it.

I do other back linking and social bookmarking however, with each method I take a few different pages or sites and only use 1 method so that I can see if it really is working and how well it works.

I'm highly satisfied with Traffic Bug

Hi 4thstreet,

Thanks for taking the time to reply to this thread. Your comments make for interesting and (I think) educational discussion on the Traffic Bug question.

The short answer to your question is yes, so far on this thread, other than the Traffic Bug people themselves, you are the only one who loves it. However, in fairness, that statement should probably be clarified a little.

First, you are wise to point out that although it would be great to get some link love as a result of using Traffic Bug, the real metric that matters as it relates to Traffic Bug's performance is not the number of backlinks we can find, but whether or not it is producing traffic. After all, it's not called "Backlink Bug" (patent pending LOL). It's called Traffic Bug. So you're certainly right in pointing out that if it's generating traffic, who cares how many backlinks you can find using backlink tools or Yahoo site explorer?

To be clear, I don't think anyone here wants to bash this thing, myself included! As I've said more than once in this thread, I think we all want it to work. We just want something more than a spread sheet with some numbers on it as proof! I don't want to hear, "Aww... just trust us. It's working", nor do I appreciate a support department who can only support a sales transaction. Our SEO clients demand proof that we are doing what we say we are doing. I myself provide my clients weekly reports, which includes every single backlink and bookmark we create. So if Traffic Bug can prove what it says it's doing, then you'll see this thread turn from a "Traffic Bug questions" thread into a "Traffic Bug cheerleading" thread, and any negativity on Traffic Bug seen here will disappear faster than a pizza at a weight-watchers convention!

There is no way the people at Traffic Bug aren't seeing this or hearing about it. They have to know this to be the case, The CEO is a young 'un, to be certain, but he strikes me as being extremely intelligent. I refuse to believe he doesn't know about this thread, especially since he and his staff have commented here, if for no other reason than to build backlinks for themselves!

This is why I suggested that I may do a real unbiased, non-affiliate review of this thing. People need to know if it works. They need real experiences... the good, the bad and the ugly. No one hopes more than I that Traffic Bug starts generating more and more traffic. I would love to be able to post the same experience here as you have. So would anyone else reading this or responding on this thread. We'll just see.

Meanwhile, as we sit here today, you are the only one on this thread who has experienced any traffic increase. I have seen none. I know where every visitor comes from, and not one visitor has come from a link created by Traffic Bug..... yet.

Again, we'll see.

09-21-2009, 06:40 AM	#51
BrightLife HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 118 Thanks: 7 Thanked 12 Times in 12 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? I let Traffic Bug run for 4 sites since about 30 days. No measurable traffic increase, nearly no new backlinks. What ever it does, it doesn´t do it effectively. I had much more success with a backlink supplier who built 100 backlinks for me at a ridiculous price. 30 of them survived over time. I another case it was less, but in the end it was much more than TB does.

09-21-2009, 07:01 AM	#52
Stuckster Warrior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 3 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? I've just purchased Traffic Bug on the recommendation of the 30DC crew. I haven't trialed it yet so I'm not speaking from experience...but it's hard to imagine the creators implementing a monthly pricing model if the software doesn't work. Most people with the skills to use the software will pretty quickly know if it's not. If it really doesn't work then everyone would simply unsubscribe after 2 months leaving them with no viable business model. I think these guys seem a little more committed than that. If they were charging a $297 upfront fee, then I'd be a tad skeptical, but otherwise I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt. But would still be very keen to hear the ongoing results from others testing though. I also noticed that no Traffic bug representative has responded to any of the criticisms. I hope they find time to do so. cheers Stuckster

09-21-2009, 07:59 AM	#53
curtroese Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Florida Posts: 64 Thanks: 11 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts Social Networking	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? I agree that it would be nice to hear from the owner of the product to address some of the concerns from "actual users", of which I am one. Obviously the directory submissions might take months and may never be that relevant, RSS feed submission seems pretty cut and dry, it seems like the real question is revolving around the effectiveness of their social bookmarking module.
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09-21-2009, 09:28 AM	#54
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09-21-2009, 10:25 AM	#55
KelvinLee Active Warrior Join Date: May 2008 Location: , , Singapore. Posts: 49 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? I also got into traffic bug with the introduction by 30 dc. I personally is a market samurai user and find it an extremely good product. Therefore I trust the recommendation by those guys in market samurai as they have actually make market samurai with built in traffic bug program. I bet those market samurai creator will not want to jeopardize their reputation for a 19.95 monthly product commission. I have signed up for traffic bug and have been submitted to it daily. If I got any good news from the linking, I will let you guys know.
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09-21-2009, 12:18 PM	#56
Lou Macdonald Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Somerset, U.K. Posts: 15 Thanks: 9 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts Social Networking	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Oh dear this thread has confirmed my suspicions, like others before me I haven't seen a single link. I hope they get it fixed as I would be wonderful if it worked, but I won't be carrying on after the trial. Good luck Traffic Bug, and anyone who pays for the service.
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09-22-2009, 12:47 AM	#59
anteck Active Warrior Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 32 Thanks: 4 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts Social Networking	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Wow... It's Reassuring to read that i'm not the only person who's had ZERO results with this product. I thought i might cop some flack for saying it, but turns out i was right on the money... My trial just ended. I didn't upgrade. Whatever they are doing, it aint working. Pity the creator hasn't piped up at all since all these reports. He's a member on here and all. Michael, whats the go with your product?

09-22-2009, 06:49 AM	#62
FifthDimension5 HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 187 Thanks: 4 Thanked 22 Times in 19 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? I have five sites of my own. I have used Traffic Bug for three of them and they have been indexed and ranked well with many backlinks. Granted, Google may not count some of the links that traffic bug makes as social bookmark backlinks but in due course of time they would be recognized and count as backlinks. If somebody thinks site not indexed just because of using Traffic Bug, I think it is probably due to some other cause. A site cant get penalized for building links at any rate (if it were so, a competitor can buy lots of links to your website thus causing your rankings to fall).

09-27-2009, 12:41 PM	#63
Gentleman Hypnotist Warrior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 1 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? I'm trying traffic bug as part of the thirty day challenge and although I am getting some submissions and link backs, my site is not being listed properly and I'll have to go back and re-list in every directory and search engine again so that it is listed properly. I've gotten several twitter followers but they are all spam marketers that post only quotes and links to their products (some with over 30k followers that are all spammers just like them) Right now I really don't see the use for it. I see people trying to take the easy road and have an automated bot that isn't quite right. I'm going back to doing this manually. Many of the directories are small and don't help with traffic for my site. The best way to build traffic is not to spam on facebook and twitter and just build good content for your site. Then submit to those sites and directories that are legit. I think many of the people loving this software are from the thirty day challenge and I don't think they are really giving you the full facts. Or they may just have different products that do well with twitter and facebook spamming. I think many of these folks are just marketing - marketing and are trying to get you to try/but the software to get a linkback and affilate commision. If it sounds too good to be true then it usually is. Content is king and all that other stuff will just piss people off and the worst part is you will probably never know it and think you are doing great until someone finally speaks up. I'm that someone. I tried all the 30dc products and didn't buy a one. I'm doing fine using web CEO, wordpress with Godaddy and these items are free. Have a great product, provide great service and do lead generation just like any good business plan and you will do well. And have a referral plan for satisfied customers. It's Sales 101 and it still works wonders. I've made over 10k with my site in a competitive marketplace this year so far. I do think that the 30dc is a good free instruction starting ground. Some people just get caught up in the hype and buy into everything they sell and the marketing offers are great lessons to be copied but not to buy into. I'm glad they had the free trials and I do think they honestly want people to do well with their projects. Copy what they do and how they do it becausae they obviously have a following delivering good content.

09-28-2009, 09:18 AM	#64
pearsonbrown Grumpy Old Man War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Beautiful Redditch, United Kingdom. Posts: 595 Thanks: 212 Thanked 75 Times in 40 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? My traffic-bug free trial has just finished and I'm definitely not moving onto the free version. I've seen no sign that it has achieved anything of note. All I've got are a few emails from some fairly dodgy-looking 'directories'. if you're starting out from scratch, you'd be much better advised to build sites on Squidoo, Wordpress.com etc and link these into your money site rather than wasting your time on this. Pearson
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09-29-2009, 05:09 AM	#66
robkat Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: , , Australia. Posts: 9 Thanks: 2 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Contact Info	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Hmmm. Reading all these posts encouraged me to look at my indexing and see just where my 23 ylinks came from. Many were from a friend in facebook/friend feed, quite a few were from comments I'd made on blogs such as Andy Jenkin's new blog, a couple were from facebook media center and propeller, one was from little web directory dot com and one came from romania index dot com. My satellite sites such as hubpages, weebly, squidoo and ezine articles made up most of the rest of the links. Guess I've just saved myself $20/month. Thanks as always to everyone in here for their unbiased views of the program. Kathy
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09-29-2009, 09:16 AM	#67
schnisz Active Warrior Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 80 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? I think its quite telling that this Michael Roberts has all but vanished from this thread since everybody has been exposing Traffic Bug as ineffective. Maybe he's working hard in his lab trying to fix his program! So what are some alternatives so some of these tasks? I love SeNuke, but too pricey for me at this point.
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10-01-2009, 02:23 AM	#68
weegie Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: , , . Posts: 43 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? I have a few FREE days left and after reading the comments here I am not sure about extending it at $20 per month. I did get an email about a $97 seminar which is free IF you sign up to a paid subscription in the next couple of days. Still on the fence W

10-01-2009, 06:56 PM	#69
Chris Warburton Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 2 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Social Networking	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Glad I found this thread before I jumped in and signed up for there monthly subscription... I guess it a bit of wait an see. Chris
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10-02-2009, 02:22 AM	#70
digitalpimps Warrior Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 22 Thanks: 2 Thanked 3 Times in 1 Post	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? I got a 40day trial from 30DC for traffic-bug.com, so I tried it on one of my sites that sat on page 1 spot #7 in an attempt to get a higher page 1 position..much to my dismay a few days later my site had disappeared from page 1 to page 4 and I'm getting hell trying to move it back up the serps. I was doing no other promotion to the site at the time besides traffic-bug. Thank you Traffic-BUG

10-02-2009, 07:34 AM	#71
Pufferf1sh Active Warrior Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 64 Thanks: 6 Thanked 5 Times in 5 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Well - the negative feedback is steadily building up and still no return to the thread from Michael Roberts. Although having said that, mostly people are reporting a minimal return rather than something bad actually happening using the Traffic Bug service. I don't think using traffic bug is going to negatively affect any of your sites, only that the numbers they report are not necessarily accurate. I hope Michael can report the improvements that are being made to rectify this. I for one want to know what it actually means when it says it has made, say, 900 bookmarks. Does that mean 900 bookmarks submitted? attempted? successful? If this number is just automatically generated and doesn't relate to any bookmarks then that is a BIG kick in the mouth for the product as it is deliberately misleading. Not a very good way to attract and keep paying customers! Still, a free trial is a free trial: everything free and no obligations.

10-02-2009, 04:56 PM	#72
Carm Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: , , Australia. Posts: 73 Thanks: 15 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? I didn't take up my offer for Traffic Bug either. After searching for bookmarks back to my sites, the only ones I found were the ones I had done myself. Sure there have been a couple of directories accepting the sites and several emails saying the sites would be reviewed but nothing from the other linking options. The tool offered much more than directory submissions, so, sorry Traffic Bug, you did look and sound like a wonderful tool, maybe next year....
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10-02-2009, 05:39 PM	#73
MissEvonne Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Chicago Posts: 26 Thanks: 4 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Today is the last day of my free trial so I was hoping to find info here at WF. I suspected as much, I submitted 5 sites, numerous articles and 1 blog and nothing??? Thanks again everyone for your input.
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10-02-2009, 10:04 PM	#75
KaylaB Active Warrior Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Canada Posts: 38 Thanks: 1 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Well, I am glad I am not alone. I keep getting reports that my sites have been submitted to x number of directories and y social bookmarks, but to date none of them them have showed up on Yahoo site explorer - so where are they? To be fair, I have received emails from directories saying that my site has been submitted, but to be honest they do not look like directories that would carry any weight. So, I paid for one month, but I am not sure I am going to waste any more money. Yes, I am very disappointed with Traffic Bug - and I sounded so promising.
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10-02-2009, 11:00 PM	#77
gcintermed Active Warrior Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Oakland, CA USA. Posts: 90 Thanks: 8 Thanked 12 Times in 6 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Well, I was on the verge of signing up to Traffic Bug which is offering a special promotion and looked really good. But reading through this whole thread has convinced me to hold off. And I think there is a lesson here... It's not so important what a program DOES but rather what RESULTS it produces. T-B has been brilliant in its marketing by focusing our attention on all that it is doing and all the time it is saving. Many of us just assumed that the results would follow automatically. But they don't... Especially when you are using some type of program designed to "game" the system. These types of "shortcuts" are almost always discovered and then rendered ineffective. It reminds me of a program I once bought which auto-posted ads to Craigslist. Whereas previously I could only manually post 5-10 ads per day, with the new program, I could post hundreds. Just one problem though- none of those ads ever showed up. Let's not forget, it's the results that matter most.

10-03-2009, 04:06 AM	#78
LostSteak Warrior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: , , . Posts: 1 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Thanks for your reviews. I was going to buy the product just on the sales letter, I'm really glad I did some research and found this forum post first. -LS

10-03-2009, 09:34 AM	#79
howdab2 Warrior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 19 Thanks: 2 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Not impressed here... It didnt do much for my 30DC site, I ended up selling my 30dc site, and about a month later, I get all these emails saying the site has been bookmarled etc LoL... a little late for having selected high aggression on the bookmarking... Ive chosen to save $24 a month and use onlywire, or just do the stuff myself... Howard
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10-03-2009, 10:48 AM	#80
lanta99 ~~Warrior~~ War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: United States Posts: 171 Blog Entries: 9 Thanks: 34 Thanked 60 Times in 9 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? I have used Traffic Bug too, and honestly I don't see any actual improvements for my websites rankings. Although I get tons of confirmation emails from various directories I haven't seen any actual solid back links coming to my website. In fact I could not find my website on any of the major social bookmarking sites? A suggestion? I really wished that they actually gave you a report of all the backlinks that they got you rather than displaying "You have saved x amount of hours, and your website has been submitted to x amount of directories and x amount of social bookmarking website". Anyways, since this product was recommended to me by Ed whom I have great respect for, I'll give it another month to see if I start getting some results.
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10-04-2009, 04:38 AM	#81
ASCW Warrior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 3 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? I've been using Traffic Bug. The fellows at 30dc say that you need to let Traffic Bug do its thing for 2 or so months before any real results are seen. I'm not advocating the software, but I figure I'm willing to pay 1-2 months subscription and give it a fair try.

10-05-2009, 07:21 PM	#83
GaryHarvey HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 424 Thanks: 14 Thanked 25 Times in 19 Posts Social Networking	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Yes please Misty. I was going to post the same request. I checked your sig... hoping a link was there, but it doesnt seem to be. Gary
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10-05-2009, 09:02 PM	#85
GaryHarvey HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 424 Thanks: 14 Thanked 25 Times in 19 Posts Social Networking	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Thanks Viv. I didnt know about Automatic Backlinks - Frequently Asked Questions so thanks for that one. Am already using Duncan's FREE Contextual Link Exchange Plugin For WordPress ? Contextual Partnership A little tip. If your site gets rejected first time round, de-activate the plugin for 24 hours and then activate it again. After you fix whatever might have caused your rejection. It's other users who accept/ reject your WP blog so just try again. Gary
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10-05-2009, 09:36 PM	#86
mistyone mylink2.com - link direc War Room Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Wellington, New Zealand. Posts: 366 Thanks: 131 Thanked 27 Times in 21 Posts Contact Info	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Hi Gary There is a lot of user control with automatic backlinks as well. You may not want to link to a site that the system placed a link on or you may not want to have as many backlinks coming from a particular site, like I didn't and have deleted some You do have quite a lot of control within your account. I am finding it really good so far. Cheers Viv
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10-05-2009, 09:45 PM	#87
pavionjsl HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Gettysburg PA Posts: 128 Thanks: 31 Thanked 6 Times in 6 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? After checking all my submissions to TB 1 backlink. Pretty Idea, useless results. Got 543 links to other blogs from other methods last week but not from TB.

10-07-2009, 10:07 AM	#88
Daniel McGonagle Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: , , USA. Posts: 1,053 Blog Entries: 12 Thanks: 0 Thanked 13 Times in 8 Posts Contact Info	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? You have to give Traffic bug, and any other link building service for that matter...TIME! It will take you 2 months minimum to see results with TB, and you also need to realize that you can't just stop with adding your main site urls. Use their Related URLs feature to develop deep links to your site. Put every single site you have in TB to get your RSS and site submissions done for you, then in another week, start building links to your money pages. After 3 months you'll definitely see results if you use the related URLs feature more and more The Link Juicer & Traffic Bug reviews - Link Building Tips + Link building Services I'm doing some case studies if you're still on the fence about this, or getting discouraged... It's definitely a time saver, but saving you time from doing what? That's the real question.. what effective SEO techniques are really being done for you here?
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10-08-2009, 07:33 PM	#89
melanied NicheChick.com War Room Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 960 Thanks: 38 Thanked 88 Times in 45 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? WOW! I'm glad I read through this thread before purchasing!
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10-11-2009, 04:26 PM	#93
EZ20Now EZ20Now Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: International Posts: 9 Thanks: 10 Thanked 7 Times in 2 Posts Social Networking	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Hello All! I don't know why some of the previous threads got deleted, so I'm not sure if this one will be as well. Hopefully not, as it's my first one here! The summary of what I see above is this: 1. Most Traffic Bug users here have seen little, if any, measurable results from the program, in terms of traffic or verifiable backlinks. 2. The CEO of the company hasn't seen fit to follow up on any of the concerns expressed in this thread, even though it's in his best interest to do so, because we all want it to work! 3. The support department for Traffic Bug is completely useless, except when it comes to helping you give them your money! 4. In spite of all of this, the 30DC gang still stands behind Traffic Bug. 5. No matter what program you use, or if you use any program at all, backlinks from bookmarks take a while to be recognized. If I may, I'd like to make the following observation based on the above summary: Here is where I think those of us who know what we're doing get stuck: Yes, we know it takes a while to see backlinks from bookmarks. However, if you look at all of the comments in this thread, invariably, without one exception, it's the case that the only backlinks that can be verified by any of us are the bookmarks that either we create ourselves, manually, or that other tools we are using create. One person on here said that they could verify one backlink. Only one! Are you kidding? Am I the only one who sees something wrong with this? This whole thing could be resolved if Traffic Bug simply produced a more detailed report that included the URL's to all of the work they claim their software has performed. That would solve the entire problem, and everyone here would be extremely delighted to sing Traffic Bug's praises from rooftops all over the world. I have personally been promised an email from Michael Roberts twice from their "support" department. Nothing. Their support submission system says that they respond to support requests within 24 hours. They don't, and I can prove it. I asked their "support" department a very basic question just to see if they would know the answer (specifically, I asked them if it was a good idea to have keyword-rich anchor text in a backlink. Their answer? "We forwarded your email to our CEO so that he can answer this question personally." That was two weeks ago, and I still have heard nothing!!! Are you kidding me? How can they not know the answer to something so basic? The only saving grace in this whole mess is Ed Dale. I have great respect for this man, and believe him to be a man of honor (even though he recently kind of "dissed" me on another unrelated matter of great importance). I believe him to be a man of his word and not just someone giving away free classes to promote a bunch of affiliate stuff. So in spite of all of this, I'm going to hang in there for a while, but I'm going to document everything online for the whole world to see, *good or bad. My feeling is that if this turns out to be a failure, Ed will be more disappointed than anyone in this forum, or anywhere else, and he'll be man enough to say so in front of the whole world. However, if this Traffic-Bug proves to be just a drain on my already overly-strained budget, and Ed remains silent, I will have lost a lot of the respect for him that he's earned from me over the years. I truly hope this will not be the case. By the way, I thought everyone here might find this interesting, to say the least! I just did analysis on the Traffic Bug website for backlinks. Here are the results: They have 3890 backlinks to their domain: PR 5: 1 page: Someone's twitter account, who doesn't appear to be related to them. PR 4: 1 page: A page about twitter theme backgrounds PR 3: 3 pages: 2 people's blogs and Traffic Bug's own friend feed PR 2: 2 pages: 2 blogs, one in a language that is not English PR 1: 3 pages: one forum, the 30DC friendfeed, and another guy's blog If you haven't noticed yet, none of these appear to be from their own software!!!* Everything else is Page Rank '0'. And the vast majority of those are from a whole lot of people's friendfeed accounts, the seochat forum, the v7n forum,and digitalpoint's forum! *Again, NOTHING verifiable from Traffic Bug! I didn't see even one bookmark!* My gosh! If it's not working even on their own site, what are the chances it will work for we poor slobs! *************** After reading back over all that I've written here, I want everyone here to know (including Michael Roberts and Ed Dale, if they are reading this) that I am going to put up a whole site devoted to this subject. I don't have a name for it yet, but I am tired of seeing good people get kicked around by people who want to make a quick buck. So, to Michael, be prepared. I am about to document everything your program is doing vs. what you and your pseudo-support department claim it's doing - for better or worse! I sure hope it proves out to be everything it says it is, and that Ed says it is. However, as I sit here today, I've gotta tell ya, it's not looking good so far! Actually, I already wrote a really long post about this detailing my experience, and I was going to put it into the 30DC forum in hopes of at least warning the 30DC guys of my findings, but it was too long to insert into a post there, and it's probably too long for here as well. So as soon as I get that site up, I will put my content there, and post the link here. I'll also do the SEO on it so that it can be found on Google. (I don't think I'll be using Traffic-Bug for that particular project though! I have a complete list of the links they have, which I will also have available on the site I set up. (Man, this is bad!) However, once again, Ed Dale says Traffic Bug works, so we'll see! If Ed says it works in spite of all of this overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that's good enough for me...... for now.
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10-11-2009, 04:40 PM	#94
pearsonbrown Grumpy Old Man War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Beautiful Redditch, United Kingdom. Posts: 595 Thanks: 212 Thanked 75 Times in 40 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? I checked back through this thread. No post by Daniel McGonagle has been deleted from this thread by a moderator. Posts by dou9las were eliminated because he broke the rules about "bashing". I sent him a PM explaining why. Pearson
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10-11-2009, 04:46 PM	#95
dou9las HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 144 Thanks: 72 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Couldn't agree more with your post more EZ20Now. And I applaud your willingness to document this in what I think is fair to call an unbiased fashion. I too, despite what I have said on previous posts, some deleted and others not, very much have a lot of respect for Ed Dale as a teacher and an expert at IM. I am just puzzled by this particular TB phenomenon (i.e. why Mike wouldn't just either fix or clarify the issues) and yet the intervening, undying 30DC support for TB in its present state.
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10-11-2009, 05:00 PM	#96
4thstreet Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: , , . Posts: 818 Thanks: 24 Thanked 13 Times in 13 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Am I the only one who totally loves Traffic Bug? I've taken brand new sites that had no other promotion than that from Traffic Bug and these are receiving visitors (targeted visitors). When I add a url for a new page to a site and hit the submit button within 24 hours my visitor count goes up. Can I see these links if I check for backlinks? No. However there have been many times that I can see a direct correlation between submitting a page and seeing visitors on that exact page. I recently submitted a new Squidoo page that had several different products on it, but my titles and keywords only focused on 1 product and I am seeing sales for that 1 product. I've been a member of Traffic Bug for a few months (and no I am not an affiliate) and I love it. I do other back linking and social bookmarking however, with each method I take a few different pages or sites and only use 1 method so that I can see if it really is working and how well it works. I'm highly satisfied with Traffic Bug
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10-11-2009, 05:14 PM	#98
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