Anyone using Traffic-Bug?

dou9las · 10-11-2009, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by EZ20Now

Hey Dou9las,

Just thought you'd like to know, when I clicked on the link to that second directory you listed above, it crashed my Quadcore computer with 4 GB of RAM.

What does that say about the "quality" of the sites Traffic Bug is working with?

Oh, Brother!

Exactly...I noticed early on that the quality of the directories that would send those submission confirmation emails was really poor, and sorry to hear poor enough to crash your system.

And hopefully that wasn't because of some kind of malware attack...

TheGodfather · 10-11-2009, 07:40 PM

Here is my 2 cents on this whole thing.... been using TB for a few days. It shows a lot of things being done but i don't see no backlinks to my site.

Also I noticed it submits to the directories in the wrong categories which is really suspicious, and in my personal opinion, and i'm not pointing any fingers here, but I feel like some of the warriors have been paid to write some good stuff about TB here on this topic.

I think I'll rather bother with the social marker site, which works great, then with this... thank god i'm still on the trial and didn't pay a dime to find out about all of this once i started paying...

edited to remove bashing

Stuckster · 10-11-2009, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by EZ20Now

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...

Michael definitely knows about this forum because right after I purchased TB I emailed him the link telling him that it was destroying his rep and that if TB really worked well that he should stand up and say something. He did however reply to me in person saying that I could expect his reply to the forum by the end of that week. After another followup email a week later, several weeks have now gone by and still nothing.

Like you, I want the software to work!! But if I can't believe in the integrity of its creator then how can I possibly believe in the product?

This thread currently ranks number two for the keyphrase "traffic bug". You can only imagine the negative impact it would be having on sales. Michael's absence here only casts more doubt about TB's effectiveness.

I don't get it! There are potentially 100's of new customers here, all chomping at the bit for an effective solution. Not to mentoin the 1000's of passive participants all reading this thread. Yet Michael can't seem to find to time to challenge even a single criticism.

I also realise that TB is still in Beta. Maybe it was pushed to market prematurely in order to launch with this years 30DC... whatever the reason... if the software wasn't ready for release it shouldn't have been released.

Now I fear that because of the rush to get the program to market that they are going to lose far more credibility (and hence sales) through poor performance, bugs and lack of support than they can ever hope to recover from.

BTW...I no longer have a TB membership.
You gotta respect your market.

pearsonbrown · 10-12-2009, 12:44 AM

Let me remind you all of the 'sticky' above.

This place is for "intelligent" reviews of products. NOT personal Bashing.

Talk about the product, not the people behind the product. If you have a problem with 30DC, take it up in the 30DC forum, not here.

Pearson

Stuckster · 10-12-2009, 03:51 AM

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Originally Posted by pearsonbrown

This place is for "intelligent" reviews of products. NOT personal Bashing.

Talk about the product, not the people behind the product. If you have a problem with 30DC, take it up in the 30DC forum, not here.
Pearson

@ Pearson Brown

Not sure whether this is in reference to my last post.
I don't know Michael, so I'm not "bashing" anyone. I felt I kept my comments fairly objective. I was merely stating that his absence from this thread is not doing Traffic Bug any favours.

Besides any "intelligent" review of SAAS software (software As A Service), which Traffic Bug is, should also review the people providing the service, not simply the code.

I've also got no problem with the 30DC. I think they provide great training and really have a lot of respect for Ed and the team. I was simply pointing out the connection between the two and how that may have contributed to TB having some support and other issues.

cheers
Stuckster

pearsonbrown · 10-12-2009, 05:03 AM

Stuckster,

No, it's a reference to posts that are no longer there. If your post is still there, it was fine.

'Reviewing the people' is not acceptable here. We have a zero-tolerance policy to negative personal comments. The rule is "if you have a problem with another Warrior, take it up with that person directly, not via the Warrior Forum". It's Allan's forum, he makes up the rules and it's not subject to debate.

Pearson

TheGodfather · 10-12-2009, 03:54 PM

Ok guys here is what i got today: as soon as i closed down traffic bug within 7 hours my site got visited by google bot and yahoo bot... so much for that...

I also contacted them and they said that they are having some "technical difficulties" etc,

EDITED Please do not make wild accusations that you couldn't prove in a court of law.

l23bc · 10-12-2009, 04:04 PM

whats the difference between traffic bug and only wire. just curious of getting traffic bug for my site but want to know exactly what it is

thanks
andy

4thstreet · 10-12-2009, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by TheGodfather

....and in my personal opinion, and i'm not pointing any fingers here, but I feel like some of the warriors have been paid to write some good stuff about TB here on this topic.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I have not been paid, reimbursed or anyway compensated for having posted a positive review of TB.
I like TB and so far I have been impressed and that is my personal point of view.

EDIT I shouldn't have let the above ridiculous comment through. I missed it. It's not acceptable to knock other Warriors and question their motives, just because they disagree with you. Pearson

TheGodfather · 10-13-2009, 12:16 AM

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Originally Posted by 4thstreet

I can't speak for anyone else, but I have not been paid, reimbursed or anyway compensated for having posted a positive review of TB.
I like TB and so far I have been impressed and that is my personal point of view.

How many verifiable backlinks has it created for you so far?

vyperr · 10-13-2009, 04:08 AM

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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.....e.

Interesting post mpruben. Keep us updated on your trial.

On my end I have used traffic bug for 9 days for this trial website I am working on but I haven't got any back-link yet. Yes, it may be too not even one?? To me this looks like a bad sign given that if it takes so long to get back links it means that the quality of back links you get is very poor (in line with other posts).

I will start now working on manual link building (supported by tools of course!) and tell you about the difference in another 9 days.

So far my rating for traffic bug is poor, let's see.

4thstreet · 10-13-2009, 11:02 AM

TheGodfather,

I am not concerned about how many backlinks I get - I am more interested in how many visitors I get and if they buy or take me up on my offers.

When I put up a brand new site, blog or social page and do absolutely no promoting (including no pinging) and only use TB and see visitors using the same keyword phrases that I listed in TB, I know where the traffic is coming.

I do many different types of backlinking and social bookmarking on my sites but when I saw this thread started I wanted to see if I was wasting my time and money on TB so I created new properties and isolated them from everything else that I had. This way I could see exactly what was going on.

Will I drop my other backlinking or social bookmarking methods and only use TB? Of coarse not. I'll continue those and will try new ones but I will still keep up my monthly membership to TB.
If I see my results fading, like anything else, I'd drop it, but for now it's working for me and that's all that matters.

absolutelee · 10-13-2009, 07:45 PM

Just thought I would throw in my 2 cents about TB.

I've built 4 sites that I've promoted using TB. Two of these sites have done very well. The other two have had problems, which I'll discuss in a moment.

According to TB, I should have over 1k to 2k backlinks to three of these sites. (I deleted the file for the other one a few weeks after I sold it.)

When I actually started poking around to see what links I could actually find, I found 2! Out of all of this, there were only two inbound links to my sites that I could not recognize as promotion I did, or as stemming from promotion I did (such as an article reprint).

Here's another thing.

Indexing!

The first two sites I built took several days before Google indexed them. Well, at the time I thought I was just having bad luck. I started building the third site two weeks ago. It has yet to be indexed. The fourth site is only four days old, but still hasn't been indexed.

As I thought through all of this the only thing I've done differently with these four sites is Traffic Bug! So, although I don't have "proof", I'm feeling pretty skeptical about TB, and I'm actually going to be emailing Michael and asking for my one month subscription payment back.

So, I guess the bottom line is if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Oh well! Back to the basics that actually work!

Lee

AD Ammann · 10-13-2009, 11:19 PM

Well, I would have liked my first post on this forum to be on a happy topic . . . but after lurking more than an year (and enjoying a wealth of awesome material) I feel compelled to chime in regarding my experience. In a nutshell: I've been using traffic bug for several days (free trial period) and while the site reports that I have umpteen back links, I haven't seen them in my cpanel or Wordpress dashboard. The three link confirmations I've received via email seem iffy at best. I mean romaniaindex.com?

Also, I'm normally quite handy at getting my sites indexed on Google. I've never had to wait beyond 48 hours for a site to show up after having done savvy social bookmarking. I've even had completely empty Wordpress sites ranked in that time. Now, several days into having started the site in question, it's still not ranked and the only variable I can discern is my having promoted it with traffic bug set to the "aggressive" level as recommended for new sites. To be honest I'm a little worried about having been slapped.

Also, I must say, one aspect of the sales copy for traffic bug is . . . how to put it . . . confusing. Several times in the sales pitch traffic bug is referred to as "software" that you can purchase -- along the lines, it would seem, of Market Samurai (which rocks btw) -- but clearly, it isn't. It's a monthly subscription service.

Finally, with respect to Traffic Bug, my email question about whether the service would purge a subscriber's backlinks from the social networking accounts through which it operates in the event he or she cancels the subscription has not yet been answered after several days.

Sorry to be a naysayer . . . but I've cancelled my Traffic Bug experiment.

AD Ammann · 10-13-2009, 11:54 PM

Update: Ok, boy is my face red, but I guess it's better to be on the level and face the music for a possible error: After reading a breaking Warrior forum thread about trouble getting WP sites indexed I discovered that for some reason my traffic-bug-promoted site in question was set to noindex, nofollow. I suspect that the latest update to WP has this as the default for some reason as I have never encountered that before. So . . . I've fixed that and we'll see how fast I get indexed. My other issues with traffic bug still stand, however.

simpleadsense · 10-14-2009, 12:45 AM

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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.

Thanks for this post, I have used the free trial through the 30 day challenge and like many on here have not seen any results from it. However I was not entirely sure as I of course use many other methods for backlinks so hard to say what is coming from where sometimes. Your test sort of proves what I already believed.

absolutelee · 10-14-2009, 05:18 AM

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Originally Posted by adammann33

After reading a breaking Warrior forum thread about trouble getting WP sites indexed I discovered that for some reason my traffic-bug-promoted site in question was set to noindex, nofollow.

Are you talking about Settings => Privacy at the top where it says: "I would like to block search engines?" Or is this something else?

Thanks!

Lee

AD Ammann · 10-14-2009, 10:19 AM

Hi Lee,

Yes -- you have to toggle on the "let everybody see it" option in the privacy settings. The issue of new wp 2.8.4 installs being default no follow/no index has been brought up in the Wordpress.org forum where there's a theory that it might be fantastico installs in which it happens. Now that I think about it, this might be important enough to enough warriors to merit its own thread on here.

Alan

Flierboy · 10-14-2009, 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by adammann33

Update: Ok, boy is my face red...
...I discovered that for some reason my traffic-bug-promoted site in question was set to noindex, nofollow...

By jove, For some reason this made me check my own blog. And to my horror, I found the same issue. Changed the settings---> Privacy options right away.

No wonder all my promotion efforts were going to waste. The blog is just a week old, but still I thought it was taking way longer than usual to get ranked!

BTW, could you post the link to the breaking WP thread you mentioned?

And yes, I did use Fantastico for my WP install. What moron thought that the default option should be set to noindex/nofollow?

Thanks a bunch for highlighting this issue!

-Ritesh

MoneyPlus · 10-15-2009, 08:05 AM

Traffic Bug has been doing a great job for me.
In less than a month they have made over 334 social bookmarks for one of my sites.

Everyday I get a couple emails saying my link has been submitted to some directory.
Fantastic program. Well worth it.

pearsonbrown · 10-15-2009, 08:33 AM

"In less than a month they have made over 334 social bookmarks for one of my sites."

Hi there, MoneyPlus. Do you mean by that that they have told you that they have made 334 bookmarks for you or that you have independently verified the existence of these bookmarks?

Thanks,

Pearson

absolutelee · 10-15-2009, 09:17 AM

Hi Alan!

That's what I thought you meant. I actually struggled with a blog for about a week before I figured that out. I felt like a real idiot!

Lee

schnisz · 10-15-2009, 12:16 PM

thats the thing. I am doing the 30dc free trial of Traffic Bug and using it for only one website. Sure it tells you it is doing alot. I have also been told (not by them) that backlink checkers don't and never will tell the whole story. I would like to hear from people who have actually noticed movement in google attritubed to traffic bug. I think thats really the only way to tell.

mpruben · 10-15-2009, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by schnisz

thats the thing. I am doing the 30dc free trial of Traffic Bug and using it for only one website. Sure it tells you it is doing alot. I have also been told (not by them) that backlink checkers don't and never will tell the whole story. I would like to hear from people who have actually noticed movement in google attritubed to traffic bug. I think thats really the only way to tell.

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. 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 8 weeks ago.

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.

I would have though that even with unreported links, the site would have been indexed. I suspect that Traffic Bug is reporting a lot but not doing so much or, if it is doing something, is doing it in the wrong places.

ChrisMoon · 10-18-2009, 04:58 AM

Thanks EZ20Now couldn’t agree more with your post. I too would love to see Traffic-Bug performing and am only commenting because it doesn't.

Thought I’d give it a fair chance and tried it for 2 months on 2 sites however T-B produced nothing not a single backlink, absolutely no results at all.

In my opinion Traffic-bugs own stats are bull **** when the data doesn’t show elsewhere and cannot be confirmed.

My respect for 30DC has also taken a dent on this one.

Look forward to seeing your site.

SEOGuruboy · 10-19-2009, 06:27 AM

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Originally Posted by mistyone

It is called Automatic Backlinks and the link is to the FAQ page as it is important you understand how it works. ...

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

Our experience of these is far from great.

We have yet to find an automatic program that does what it says and automatic backlinks is IMO no better than anything else. We actually found automaticbacklinks to be no use whatsoever.

We have three old sites that we use for experiments, installing programs etc.They all rank well amd have PR3 PR4 & PR4 respectively. Loads of pages have pr 2-4 thorughout each of the sites.

We installed the ABL code on each of these but after a week all we got was emails saying "No pages with Google Page rank on your site has been discovered yet. Consider buying some Link Credit to get started instead." Really?

As for the Wordpress contextual links plugin - we've had very little success with this. The developers even admit it has more than a few bugs. In the blogs we tried it couldn't even verify the domain names of the blogs we installed it on. To be fair we only tried this on 3 or 4 blogs. We're not convinced of this one yet but we're giving it some more time.

EDIT: Forgot to say. Traffic Bug gave zero yield on the site we tried it on.

IM-MONSTER · 10-23-2009, 02:22 PM

My Detailed Experience with Traffic-Bug:

My Story:

I am very new to internet marketing and after reading reviews from this forum and others. I decided to join this year's 30DC. I took every advice from that program and followed religiously from day one. Therefore, when they introduced Traffic Bug for the first time, I was really excited. As anyone in the IM business should know, automation is very critical and since I have never made any money online, TB seemed to be a good way to start at for a low budget. (1000s of backlinks per month for 20 bucks and all on automation? why NOT?) So I spend about 1/2 a day creating my blog and writing articles and submitted them ALL to traffic bug wishing to see some results soon. I was REALLY excited!

My Experiences:

After 2 weeks I quickly realized that there is something "iffy" about this program because there were:

1) No Evidence of ANY social bookmarks that has been made

Like many other warriors here, I cannot find any social bookmarks made and was not able to verify any of them.

2) Cannot Find any RSS submissions

No details about this anywhere in the program. I cannot see where the RSS submissions have been submitted to.

3) Wrong Category for Directory submissions

I selected the health category in TB and my submission was submitted to music and other random categories. Sometimes even in the sports categories.

4) "Iffy" Seach Engine Submissions

When I submit my site, it immediately tells me that it has submitted to 139 search engines. (under the search engines column it says 139). However, I had made an error in the URL of the website and I was a bit nervous beause i thought it's too late since TB already submitted to 139 search engines but just to not make things worst, I quickly went back and unchecked the "submit to search engines". When I returned to the status page, TB now has a 0 listed in the seach engines column. This makes me think that TB posts numbers on the status page even before they are submitted. =(

5) Very poor submission report

I was excited to get my report in the email inbox wanting to see where my bookmarks have been submitted to. However, I was disappointed when I see a big number telling me how much time i have saved and the number of submissions made. It does not tell me the very important details about where the bookmarks are made so that i can go find them and verify.

Conclusion

I have given this program a lot of time and patience. As a matter of fact, the owner of the program said the true power of TB comes after 60 days. So after the 40 day demo period, I paid for the first month of service and I was recently billed for this month. However after 70+ days of no actual improvement in my ranks or submission details. I am sorry to say that I must discontinue service. I have come to the conclusion that if I can't even find any backlinks to my site, neither will Google. If the submissions are there, but my site is not ranking, that is not TBs problem, but if i cannot see any submissions and TB continues to tell me that it's doing it's job for me without giving me any evidence... then it becomes TB's problem. the 30DC crew did a great job this year.. However, this is simply a bad recommandation.

I do have evidence of everything I say to back me up. and since I read most of the warriors here are having the same problem. My point stands strong and vaild.

Hope this post helps those who are looking into this program

pavionjsl · 10-23-2009, 05:01 PM

No links from traffic bug, 548 from pyro genuis wso. Winner!

realoptions · 10-23-2009, 05:08 PM

Thanks for the warning phantom701. I hate to waste my time and money just to find out that the product is over-hyped and fails to deliver as promised.

Shaleniie Devi · 10-24-2009, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by IM-MONSTER

3) Wrong Category for Directory submissions

I selected the health category in TB and my submission was submitted to music and other random categories. Sometimes even in the sports categories.

I too had the same problem. I selected the beauty category and I get so-called "directories" sending me emails saying that they have accepted my site but it's all the wrong categories.

Just earlier today, I got an email saying that my site has been accepted by a "directory" and it will be filed under Cricket.

I mean Beauty and Cricket???

Where's the link??????

Thankfully it's just the free trial from 30DC. No more Traffic Bug for me

nofearman · 10-24-2009, 05:43 PM

Well, I just spent two hours adding my first site. Then when I hit the Add new Website button, it asked me to LOGIN AGAIN! And guess what? It LOST ALL MY WORK!! It wold be nice to get it to workjk before any results cna be evaluated. But, I also notice the developer has NOT chimed in this thread in a long time, not a good sign.

So, what is a good alternative to TB? I already tried SE Nuke and wasn't too impressed, particularly for $99 as the $49 doesn;t give you really anything.

IM-MONSTER · 10-25-2009, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by anteck

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.

I just cancelled the service though paypal (thank god for paypal with an easy to unsubscribe method which allows me to cancel without going though the creator - who knows how much trouble that's gonna be..)

I added my first site to TB the first day it was introduced in the beginning of August. Now it's almost the end of October and to date, I cannot find a single backlink back to my site with this program. Nothing from directories, nothing from bookmarks. No traffic increase, no SERPs rankings increase.

Only a lot of time wasted

affmanager · 10-27-2009, 08:16 PM

Anyone here ever heard of Synnd? Sounds very similar to TrafficBug. It's headed up by Charles Heflin among a few others. Monthly service for automating bookmarking starts at $67/month last time I looked. Looks really fantastic and I have read this whole thread never to hear mention of it as an alternative to TB.

pf343537 · 10-31-2009, 01:04 AM

Hey folks,

Here from someone who already used Traffic "DUD" for about 2 1/2 months with ZERO results: don't waste your time and money. That thing is a piece of garbage (and that's to avoid using a more appropriate word ....). It's just worthless. A scam.

Meanwhile, all the bookmars I did manually showed up in a couple of weeks in most cases. Funny, huh?

I'm saving to buy Bookmarking Demon, about which I heard already a couple of good reports from real users who have had real good results from it.

P.S.: Quick edit: Zombofi, It happenned to me too ! My niche is the Health area and they gave me "Cricket" also !!! Then I thought to myself: "What the hell! I didn't know cricket is such a health hazard .... :>) "

absolutelee · 10-31-2009, 07:53 AM

Just to put the final nail in the Traffic Bug coffin (that's a Halloween joke

). I started two sites almost as identical as two sites could be, same niche, virtually the same SEOT and SEOC. Used WordPress on both, same theme, same plugins, same everything. Same length posts all written by me in the same way.

I think you get the point.

The only difference is I used TB on one and not the other. The one that I used TB on took almost 3 weeks to just get indexed. The one I didn't use TB on only took a couple of days.

Also, even after getting indexed the one I used TB on just floundered! (It's only now coming back to life after about a month and a half or two months.) The one I didn't use TB on started getting natural search traffic in about a week, and the traffic's been slowly building since as I add backlinks.

Now, this is not a scientific study, but it's the final word for me.

weegie · 10-31-2009, 11:07 AM

Just cancelled Traffic Bug.

W

Best Affiliate · 10-31-2009, 02:59 PM

Ive been paying for TB since august and im pretty disappointed. I added over a half dozen sites to this program and didnt see any results at all. a couple times when I added a new site - blogger blogs and then checking to see if it was indexed neither time it was. Both were blogger blogs. You would think after two weeks submitting bookmarks and rss it would get at least indexed. I then went to social marker picked 10 bookmarking sites and submitted the same sites to several rss feeds and both got indexed in hours. I just cancelled the account. even though I could not find a link on their site to do so I just sent an email to support. Also did one last check in site explorer on one of those blogger blogs. I did zero backlinking for it other than 2 or 3 bookmarks I did on my own. TB showed 80 plus bookmarks, site explorer showed 6 links, zero from TB. Nice work for 2 months of being in their system. im pissed I paid for this crap.

Gabby12 · 10-31-2009, 06:35 PM

Similar results here. Used for almost three months with 0 backlincks! Saved me 4500 minutes but for what? The disappointing thing is that I have followed with the 30dc for a few years and Ed Dale has usually recommended very good products, This one is a total waist, hope they retract their promotion so that no one else gets burned on this.
Mark

mjbaker · 10-31-2009, 11:48 PM

I will post on Ed Dale's forum about this as well.

I'm a real newbie, but not so much as I see what a total ripoff Traffic Bug has been. I've been using it, both the trail and paid version for 2 1/2 month or more.

I've directly written to Michael, the designer with no direct response. And I've seen no direct response here on the Warrrior Forum. I'm quite sure that their progam was down for about a month when the current year's 'Ed Dale 30 day Challenge' was run, but I don' know that for sure. Only basing that on what I've seen.

However, I can report that I used the program to 'bookmark' multiple links. I did not see one direct result from this. I canceled today.

Mike

Pufferf1sh · 11-01-2009, 08:14 AM

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Originally Posted by mjbaker

I've directly written to Michael, the designer with no direct response. And I've seen no direct response here on the Warrrior Forum.

In all fairness, Michael was active in this thread in the beginning, and making direct responses. However, 'long time no see' as the saying goes. Certainly disappointing that no explanation has been offered in response to the the many negative experiences building up and being described here, or responses to direct emails as you mentioned.

Nevertheless, Traffic Bug on paper seems to have potential and after a bit of tweaking and repackaging may even have a bit of a renaissance. Perhaps it will turn out to be one of those urban-myth cockroaches that can survive a nuclear holocaust (of the fiery feedback form bulding up on this thread!). Maybe that's a good product; 'Traffic Roach'.

For me though, I have read around a little and have settled for Bookmarking Demon 5. Very happy so far and am seeing concrete results and efficient support. It's a one-off payment of $147 dollars which is equivalent to around six months of traffic bug.

gsport11 · 11-01-2009, 08:38 AM

I started in 30 day challenge on Aug. 1. Kept on schedule throughout, so whenever it was that the group started using Traffic Bug in August is the day I started with it.

I added a number of new and old sites, internal pages, articles in ezinearticles and others.

At this point traffic bug reports 1383 directory submissions and 4442 social bookmarks for my entries.

I have not seen a single social bookmark appear in any of my checked link searches for any of the pages I entered into traffic-bug. All my links to the newer sites are direct result of my article marketing efforts as are the links to my article directory submissions.

I am not taking the valuable time to add anything else to traffic bug until I start seeing results. If that doesn't happen within the next month, I'm quitting the subscription.

I've lost a bit of respect for Ed Dale after this experience, although I'm grateful for his endorsement of Market Samurai.

egenius · 11-01-2009, 07:44 PM

Hey Guys,

Social Bookmarking sites don't really count as backlinks anymore. All they do is get your site indexed faster. Traffic Bug gets my site indexed fast and that is worth the $20 a month. It will help with rankings slightly as most of the those directories will count as low quality backlinks. This software is not a miracle solution but it will get your pages indexed quicker. That is all.

Cheers,

Mason

ekaram · 11-02-2009, 12:28 AM

To me, it has SLOWED the indexing process.

I tried it with two brand new wordpress blogs and with the amount of bookmarks and submissions that trafficbug shows, you would believe it would be indexed fast.

No, 3 weeks later and none of them were indexed.

Stopped traffic bug, manually bookmarked the blogs with onlywire, and 2 and 3 days later they were indexed.

Also, I've been running it for about 3 weeks on an established site and although it reports about 1700 bookmarks, amazingly there is NO TRACE or result of any of them.

Too bad the author only jumped on this thread to pitch his product, and after the "results" started pouring in he just disappeared. Would have been great to AT LEAST read an explanation instead of "pay me for 2 months and you will see results then".

I'm glad to see this thread and confirm that traffic bug is a complete scam.

Don't waste your 20 bucks, and most importantly, your TIME with traffic bug.

Cheers,
Emilio

jsanderz · 11-02-2009, 09:52 AM

After reading through all the posts I have decided not to go ahead and use Traffic Bug.

Regards.

pf343537 · 11-02-2009, 05:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by egenius

Hey Guys,

Social Bookmarking sites don't really count as backlinks anymore. All they do is get your site indexed faster.

Egenius, someone sold you a wrong story, buddy.

Yes, social bookmarking sites still do count as backlinks. I continue to do it and they keep showing up in both Google's and Yahoo's lists of incoming links to my sites (as recently as a few days ago) -- sites like Mixx, Delicious, Propeller, Mister Wong and so on.

ekaram · 11-02-2009, 08:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jsanderz

After reading through all the posts I have decided not to go ahead and use Traffic Bug. However I came across this post in the 30 day forum. What are your thoughts?
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2 good reviews from partners vs 50+ bad reviews from customers

jsanderz · 11-03-2009, 06:28 AM

Ekaram,
Yes you're right, I was hoping this would work great on a new blog of mine, never mind.
Regards.

EZ20Now · 11-03-2009, 09:21 AM

Fellow Warriors,

I've just been watching the posts here since my last posting on this thread about 3 weeks ago. It's good to know that I'm not alone in my Traffic Bug Scam Saga.

I have to say that what I feel at this point more than anything is simply a lack of faith in humanity. This guy has such a great presentation that it's hard not to believe. Unfortunately, like so many of you, the net effect of this saga has been like having a giant carrot hung out in front of me only to have it jerked away from me - not once, but many times over the last 3 months or so by this Michael character. I can't think of anything more cruel than to get someone's hopes up only to have them crushed in such a calloused way. It would be one thing if this guy was really trying and doing his best, and when complaints like ours come in, he jumps on it, deals with it, or even has a humble customer-service-oriented attitude in saying something like, "Yes, we're definitely having some problems, but please stick with me. I'll do whatever it takes to make it right." However, from the lack-luster response I've received from his pitiful excuse for a support department and the lack of response at all from him, I can only conclude that all they are interested in is getting whatever money they can out of us poor suckers that were dumb enough to believe in his presentation and then moving on when the whole thing crashes. Very sad.

Anyway, as bad as my experience was at the time of my last post, in the last three weeks I've experienced nothing but more frustration, more dismay and more dismal failure with 12 of the 14 sites on which I used Traffic Bug:

- 8 sites are now banned from Google
- 4 are not banned from Google, but are also not in the top 1000, even though TB reports thousands of backlinks

The remaining 2 are now in the top 10, but only got there after I canceled my TB subscription and moved the sites to a new IP address!

On all 14 sites, I can't verify one single backlink, and TB won't respond to my requests to such verification. TB mentions somewhere in the 30DC forum that "it takes a while for the bookmarking backlinks to be seen." While I have verified on this forum and elsewhere that this is true to some degree, my own SEO testing shows that while NONE of the backlinks TB alledges have been created show up, after 2 weeks of manual bookmarking on sites TB was used on as well as TB wasn't used on, 39% of the backlinks we manually created were indexed and showing as backlinks. After 60 days, 86% of what we submitted shows, while still not one single backlink from TB shows.

The net result of this service is that for roughly $20 per month, these people will get your hopes up about being able to save all of this time, and on a weekly or monthly basis, they will send you a very basic spreadsheet which my little girl could have created in all of 5 minutes with a bunch of numbers on it that no one can verify, and for all we know, are just pulled out of thin air. The truth is that there are NO backlinks, and no one is going to convince me otherwise. I have come to the same conclusion as another poster above. If I can't find it, then neither can Google (or Yahoo, or anyone else). More to the point, if TB refuses to give a URL to even a single backlink they claim TB has created, then I have no use for them. Period.

So the formula here is:

NO verifiable backlinks + NO traffic = Traffic Bug Scam

I agree with some of the other Warriors here that manual submission is the best way to go, but like so many of you, I've wasted hundreds of dollars proving this to be the case, so, Fellow Warriors, allow me to spare you the same fate! I'm hoping to see this fact change someday, when something like what TB was supposed to be actually proves itself to work. TB would have been great if it wasn't such a scam! I guess the old saying still holds true that if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!

In closing, if after reading these three pages of posts, anyone is still tempted to try this service, here is my suggestion. For $10 per month (half of the cost of Traffic Bug), I'll provide you the same service that Traffic Bug is really providing. I'll be more than happy to have my little girl throw some numbers into a spreadsheet and send them to you. I'll even do one better; I'll actually put some effort into making the spreadsheet look good with a cool logo and everything, and I'll even include a message in the email telling you about how wise you are to buy something so worthless from me!

Any takers?

Daniel McGonagle · 11-03-2009, 11:10 AM

I have been in TB for a while now and it's not impressive at all, however it's not a SCAM!

How can people saw the following 2 things at the same time?

1- I'm not getting CREDITED backlinks
2- The backlinks I got made my sites get banned

How hypocritical and nonsensical is that?

Do bad backlinks get your site banned? You might want to read this

Link building myth, getting bad backlinks - Link Building Tips + Link building Services

Does Traffic bug suck for link building and traffic generation?

For the most part yes, but I have seen immediate surges in Adsense impressions on the sites that I use TB to get social bookmarking links for, but only on the first day.

Is it a scam? NO

Does it overpromise and under-deliver? YES

Is it good for anything at all?

Possibly, pay the first month's fees and get a lot of low-end SEO Stuff done for you then cancel since most of the work gets done in first few days any ways.
Anyone reading this should start a new thread in the SEO section asking if bad backlinks get your site banned, maybe the more knowledgeable SEO folks will set you straight on that myth.

EZ20Now · 11-04-2009, 09:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Daniel McGonagle

I have been in TB for a while now and it's not impressive at all, however it's not a SCAM!

How can people saw the following 2 things at the same time?

1- I'm not getting CREDITED backlinks
2- The backlinks I got made my sites get banned

How hypocritical and nonsensical is that?

Daniel,

Thanks for posting this. You make a good point.

To be clear, I wasn't being hypocritical. I simply hadn't thought of that fact until after I'd made the post. That's all.

That being said, you're absolutely right; those two points are in direct conflict with one another - well, at least they certainly seem to be. If the links truly don't exist at all, then there is no issue over which a site could be banned. Your logic makes perfect sense to me, which is why I'm confused about what has happened. You see, although your point makes perfect logical sense, these two facts remain:

1. Many of my sites were banned, when TB was the only tool being used on them.
2. I was not able to verify one single link using Market Samurai or Yahoo Explorer or 2 or 3 other tools I found on the net.

I don't get it, either, but that's what happened.

Regarding the "scam" point, like you, my tendency in this situation would normally be to simply write off TB as simply a failed loser of a product (or service)... that is, I'd do so if it weren't for the three weeks of email I have with their idiot support department and the kid CEO himself documenting my own experience with this nightmare. The owner knows it's not working, and he admits to cutting corners, yet he continues to show a face to the public that suggests otherwise. In my book, that's a scam. Believing something might be possible if only it could be fixed is not the same thing as something actually doing what the CEO claims it can do. At least, that's the way I look at it. As I said above, if the guy had the honesty and integrity to say...

"Yep, I'm having problems, not only with the software itself, but with my clearly sub-standard support department as well. I ask that you bear with me while I make it right, and I'll do whatever you want me to do to keep you as a happy customer."

... then I would go to the ends of the earth for someone with that level of integrity - the level of integrity such as that which I have found exists in the hearts and minds of the vast majority of people here on this forum. But when someone knows good and well that they don't do what they say they can do, but continue to advertise it to others as though it does, that's a scam in my book. Hopefully you agree. If you don't, then I will respectfully agree to disagree with you.

Meanwhile, the points in your post are certainly valid, and I'd like to thank you for them. I will also be checking out the link you provided, and look forward to continuing to learn more from you and others here on the Warrior Forum.

Either way, at least the truth of the matter regarding Traffic Bug - scam or not - is now out there for all to see, so that people who are trying to make a decision on Traffic Bug can now do so with all of the facts in front of them. That's good enough for me.

The truth is out there...

10-11-2009, 07:40 PM	#102
TheGodfather HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 371 Thanks: 52 Thanked 21 Times in 13 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Here is my 2 cents on this whole thing.... been using TB for a few days. It shows a lot of things being done but i don't see no backlinks to my site. Also I noticed it submits to the directories in the wrong categories which is really suspicious, and in my personal opinion, and i'm not pointing any fingers here, but I feel like some of the warriors have been paid to write some good stuff about TB here on this topic. I think I'll rather bother with the social marker site, which works great, then with this... thank god i'm still on the trial and didn't pay a dime to find out about all of this once i started paying... edited to remove bashing
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10-12-2009, 12:44 AM	#104
pearsonbrown Grumpy Old Moderator War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Spending the winter in France Posts: 1,092 Thanks: 720 Thanked 351 Times in 156 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Let me remind you all of the 'sticky' above. This place is for "intelligent" reviews of products. NOT personal Bashing. Talk about the product, not the people behind the product. If you have a problem with 30DC, take it up in the 30DC forum, not here. Pearson
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10-12-2009, 05:03 AM	#106
pearsonbrown Grumpy Old Moderator War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Spending the winter in France Posts: 1,092 Thanks: 720 Thanked 351 Times in 156 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Stuckster, No, it's a reference to posts that are no longer there. If your post is still there, it was fine. 'Reviewing the people' is not acceptable here. We have a zero-tolerance policy to negative personal comments. The rule is "if you have a problem with another Warrior, take it up with that person directly, not via the Warrior Forum". It's Allan's forum, he makes up the rules and it's not subject to debate. Pearson
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10-12-2009, 03:54 PM	#107
TheGodfather HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 371 Thanks: 52 Thanked 21 Times in 13 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Ok guys here is what i got today: as soon as i closed down traffic bug within 7 hours my site got visited by google bot and yahoo bot... so much for that... I also contacted them and they said that they are having some "technical difficulties" etc, EDITED Please do not make wild accusations that you couldn't prove in a court of law.
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10-12-2009, 04:04 PM	#108
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10-13-2009, 11:02 AM	#112
4thstreet Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: , , . Posts: 982 Thanks: 55 Thanked 64 Times in 61 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? TheGodfather, I am not concerned about how many backlinks I get - I am more interested in how many visitors I get and if they buy or take me up on my offers. When I put up a brand new site, blog or social page and do absolutely no promoting (including no pinging) and only use TB and see visitors using the same keyword phrases that I listed in TB, I know where the traffic is coming. I do many different types of backlinking and social bookmarking on my sites but when I saw this thread started I wanted to see if I was wasting my time and money on TB so I created new properties and isolated them from everything else that I had. This way I could see exactly what was going on. Will I drop my other backlinking or social bookmarking methods and only use TB? Of coarse not. I'll continue those and will try new ones but I will still keep up my monthly membership to TB. If I see my results fading, like anything else, I'd drop it, but for now it's working for me and that's all that matters.

10-13-2009, 07:45 PM	#113
absolutelee Lee Cole War Room Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Atlanta Posts: 591 Thanks: 24 Thanked 168 Times in 132 Posts Social Networking	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Just thought I would throw in my 2 cents about TB. I've built 4 sites that I've promoted using TB. Two of these sites have done very well. The other two have had problems, which I'll discuss in a moment. According to TB, I should have over 1k to 2k backlinks to three of these sites. (I deleted the file for the other one a few weeks after I sold it.) When I actually started poking around to see what links I could actually find, I found 2! Out of all of this, there were only two inbound links to my sites that I could not recognize as promotion I did, or as stemming from promotion I did (such as an article reprint). Here's another thing. Indexing! The first two sites I built took several days before Google indexed them. Well, at the time I thought I was just having bad luck. I started building the third site two weeks ago. It has yet to be indexed. The fourth site is only four days old, but still hasn't been indexed. As I thought through all of this the only thing I've done differently with these four sites is Traffic Bug! So, although I don't have "proof", I'm feeling pretty skeptical about TB, and I'm actually going to be emailing Michael and asking for my one month subscription payment back. So, I guess the bottom line is if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Oh well! Back to the basics that actually work! Lee
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10-13-2009, 11:19 PM	#114
AD Ammann Add value every day. War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Seacoast, New Hampshire, USA Posts: 9 Thanks: 0 Thanked 10 Times in 4 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Well, I would have liked my first post on this forum to be on a happy topic . . . but after lurking more than an year (and enjoying a wealth of awesome material) I feel compelled to chime in regarding my experience. In a nutshell: I've been using traffic bug for several days (free trial period) and while the site reports that I have umpteen back links, I haven't seen them in my cpanel or Wordpress dashboard. The three link confirmations I've received via email seem iffy at best. I mean romaniaindex.com? Also, I'm normally quite handy at getting my sites indexed on Google. I've never had to wait beyond 48 hours for a site to show up after having done savvy social bookmarking. I've even had completely empty Wordpress sites ranked in that time. Now, several days into having started the site in question, it's still not ranked and the only variable I can discern is my having promoted it with traffic bug set to the "aggressive" level as recommended for new sites. To be honest I'm a little worried about having been slapped. Also, I must say, one aspect of the sales copy for traffic bug is . . . how to put it . . . confusing. Several times in the sales pitch traffic bug is referred to as "software" that you can purchase -- along the lines, it would seem, of Market Samurai (which rocks btw) -- but clearly, it isn't. It's a monthly subscription service. Finally, with respect to Traffic Bug, my email question about whether the service would purge a subscriber's backlinks from the social networking accounts through which it operates in the event he or she cancels the subscription has not yet been answered after several days. Sorry to be a naysayer . . . but I've cancelled my Traffic Bug experiment.

10-13-2009, 11:54 PM	#115
AD Ammann Add value every day. War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Seacoast, New Hampshire, USA Posts: 9 Thanks: 0 Thanked 10 Times in 4 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Update: Ok, boy is my face red, but I guess it's better to be on the level and face the music for a possible error: After reading a breaking Warrior forum thread about trouble getting WP sites indexed I discovered that for some reason my traffic-bug-promoted site in question was set to noindex, nofollow. I suspect that the latest update to WP has this as the default for some reason as I have never encountered that before. So . . . I've fixed that and we'll see how fast I get indexed. My other issues with traffic bug still stand, however.

10-14-2009, 10:19 AM	#118
AD Ammann Add value every day. War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Seacoast, New Hampshire, USA Posts: 9 Thanks: 0 Thanked 10 Times in 4 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Hi Lee, Yes -- you have to toggle on the "let everybody see it" option in the privacy settings. The issue of new wp 2.8.4 installs being default no follow/no index has been brought up in the Wordpress.org forum where there's a theory that it might be fantastico installs in which it happens. Now that I think about it, this might be important enough to enough warriors to merit its own thread on here. Alan

10-15-2009, 08:05 AM	#120
MoneyPlus Active Warrior Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: New York City Posts: 79 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Traffic Bug has been doing a great job for me. In less than a month they have made over 334 social bookmarks for one of my sites. Everyday I get a couple emails saying my link has been submitted to some directory. Fantastic program. Well worth it.
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10-15-2009, 08:33 AM	#121
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10-15-2009, 09:17 AM	#122
absolutelee Lee Cole War Room Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Atlanta Posts: 591 Thanks: 24 Thanked 168 Times in 132 Posts Social Networking	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Hi Alan! That's what I thought you meant. I actually struggled with a blog for about a week before I figured that out. I felt like a real idiot! Lee
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10-15-2009, 12:16 PM	#123
schnisz HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 214 Thanks: 12 Thanked 15 Times in 14 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? thats the thing. I am doing the 30dc free trial of Traffic Bug and using it for only one website. Sure it tells you it is doing alot. I have also been told (not by them) that backlink checkers don't and never will tell the whole story. I would like to hear from people who have actually noticed movement in google attritubed to traffic bug. I think thats really the only way to tell.
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10-18-2009, 04:58 AM	#125
ChrisMoon HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Europe, Planet Earth Posts: 112 Thanks: 12 Thanked 25 Times in 23 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Thanks EZ20Now couldn’t agree more with your post. I too would love to see Traffic-Bug performing and am only commenting because it doesn't. Thought I’d give it a fair chance and tried it for 2 months on 2 sites however T-B produced nothing not a single backlink, absolutely no results at all. In my opinion Traffic-bugs own stats are bull **** when the data doesn’t show elsewhere and cannot be confirmed. My respect for 30DC has also taken a dent on this one. Look forward to seeing your site.
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10-23-2009, 02:22 PM	#127
IM-MONSTER Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 18 Thanks: 3 Thanked 3 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? My Detailed Experience with Traffic-Bug: My Story: I am very new to internet marketing and after reading reviews from this forum and others. I decided to join this year's 30DC. I took every advice from that program and followed religiously from day one. Therefore, when they introduced Traffic Bug for the first time, I was really excited. As anyone in the IM business should know, automation is very critical and since I have never made any money online, TB seemed to be a good way to start at for a low budget. (1000s of backlinks per month for 20 bucks and all on automation? why NOT?) So I spend about 1/2 a day creating my blog and writing articles and submitted them ALL to traffic bug wishing to see some results soon. I was REALLY excited! My Experiences: After 2 weeks I quickly realized that there is something "iffy" about this program because there were: 1) No Evidence of ANY social bookmarks that has been made Like many other warriors here, I cannot find any social bookmarks made and was not able to verify any of them. 2) Cannot Find any RSS submissions No details about this anywhere in the program. I cannot see where the RSS submissions have been submitted to. 3) Wrong Category for Directory submissions I selected the health category in TB and my submission was submitted to music and other random categories. Sometimes even in the sports categories. 4) "Iffy" Seach Engine Submissions When I submit my site, it immediately tells me that it has submitted to 139 search engines. (under the search engines column it says 139). However, I had made an error in the URL of the website and I was a bit nervous beause i thought it's too late since TB already submitted to 139 search engines but just to not make things worst, I quickly went back and unchecked the "submit to search engines". When I returned to the status page, TB now has a 0 listed in the seach engines column. This makes me think that TB posts numbers on the status page even before they are submitted. =( 5) Very poor submission report I was excited to get my report in the email inbox wanting to see where my bookmarks have been submitted to. However, I was disappointed when I see a big number telling me how much time i have saved and the number of submissions made. It does not tell me the very important details about where the bookmarks are made so that i can go find them and verify. Conclusion I have given this program a lot of time and patience. As a matter of fact, the owner of the program said the true power of TB comes after 60 days. So after the 40 day demo period, I paid for the first month of service and I was recently billed for this month. However after 70+ days of no actual improvement in my ranks or submission details. I am sorry to say that I must discontinue service. I have come to the conclusion that if I can't even find any backlinks to my site, neither will Google. If the submissions are there, but my site is not ranking, that is not TBs problem, but if i cannot see any submissions and TB continues to tell me that it's doing it's job for me without giving me any evidence... then it becomes TB's problem. the 30DC crew did a great job this year.. However, this is simply a bad recommandation. I do have evidence of everything I say to back me up. and since I read most of the warriors here are having the same problem. My point stands strong and vaild. Hope this post helps those who are looking into this program

10-23-2009, 05:01 PM	#128
pavionjsl Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Mechanicsburg Pa. Posts: 804 Thanks: 118 Thanked 97 Times in 81 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? No links from traffic bug, 548 from pyro genuis wso. Winner!

10-23-2009, 05:08 PM	#129
realoptions Active Warrior Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 75 Thanks: 1 Thanked 4 Times in 3 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Thanks for the warning phantom701. I hate to waste my time and money just to find out that the product is over-hyped and fails to deliver as promised.

10-24-2009, 05:43 PM	#131
nofearman Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 670 Thanks: 25 Thanked 33 Times in 26 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Well, I just spent two hours adding my first site. Then when I hit the Add new Website button, it asked me to LOGIN AGAIN! And guess what? It LOST ALL MY WORK!! It wold be nice to get it to workjk before any results cna be evaluated. But, I also notice the developer has NOT chimed in this thread in a long time, not a good sign. So, what is a good alternative to TB? I already tried SE Nuke and wasn't too impressed, particularly for $99 as the $49 doesn;t give you really anything.
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10-27-2009, 08:16 PM	#133
affmanager Active Warrior Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: , , USA. Posts: 39 Thanks: 5 Thanked 5 Times in 5 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Anyone here ever heard of Synnd? Sounds very similar to TrafficBug. It's headed up by Charles Heflin among a few others. Monthly service for automating bookmarking starts at $67/month last time I looked. Looks really fantastic and I have read this whole thread never to hear mention of it as an alternative to TB.

10-31-2009, 01:04 AM	#134
pf343537 Warrior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 4 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Hey folks, Here from someone who already used Traffic "DUD" for about 2 1/2 months with ZERO results: don't waste your time and money. That thing is a piece of garbage (and that's to avoid using a more appropriate word ....). It's just worthless. A scam. Meanwhile, all the bookmars I did manually showed up in a couple of weeks in most cases. Funny, huh? I'm saving to buy Bookmarking Demon, about which I heard already a couple of good reports from real users who have had real good results from it. P.S.: Quick edit: Zombofi, It happenned to me too ! My niche is the Health area and they gave me "Cricket" also !!! Then I thought to myself: "What the hell! I didn't know cricket is such a health hazard .... :>) "

10-31-2009, 07:53 AM	#135
absolutelee Lee Cole War Room Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Atlanta Posts: 591 Thanks: 24 Thanked 168 Times in 132 Posts Social Networking	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Just to put the final nail in the Traffic Bug coffin (that's a Halloween joke ). I started two sites almost as identical as two sites could be, same niche, virtually the same SEOT and SEOC. Used WordPress on both, same theme, same plugins, same everything. Same length posts all written by me in the same way. I think you get the point. The only difference is I used TB on one and not the other. The one that I used TB on took almost 3 weeks to just get indexed. The one I didn't use TB on only took a couple of days. Also, even after getting indexed the one I used TB on just floundered! (It's only now coming back to life after about a month and a half or two months.) The one I didn't use TB on started getting natural search traffic in about a week, and the traffic's been slowly building since as I add backlinks. Now, this is not a scientific study, but it's the final word for me.
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10-31-2009, 11:07 AM	#136
weegie Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: , , . Posts: 45 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Just cancelled Traffic Bug. W

10-31-2009, 02:59 PM	#137
Best Affiliate HyperActive Warrior Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 103 Thanks: 0 Thanked 11 Times in 10 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Ive been paying for TB since august and im pretty disappointed. I added over a half dozen sites to this program and didnt see any results at all. a couple times when I added a new site - blogger blogs and then checking to see if it was indexed neither time it was. Both were blogger blogs. You would think after two weeks submitting bookmarks and rss it would get at least indexed. I then went to social marker picked 10 bookmarking sites and submitted the same sites to several rss feeds and both got indexed in hours. I just cancelled the account. even though I could not find a link on their site to do so I just sent an email to support. Also did one last check in site explorer on one of those blogger blogs. I did zero backlinking for it other than 2 or 3 bookmarks I did on my own. TB showed 80 plus bookmarks, site explorer showed 6 links, zero from TB. Nice work for 2 months of being in their system. im pissed I paid for this crap.
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10-31-2009, 06:35 PM	#138
Gabby12 HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 127 Thanks: 35 Thanked 23 Times in 21 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Similar results here. Used for almost three months with 0 backlincks! Saved me 4500 minutes but for what? The disappointing thing is that I have followed with the 30dc for a few years and Ed Dale has usually recommended very good products, This one is a total waist, hope they retract their promotion so that no one else gets burned on this. Mark

10-31-2009, 11:48 PM	#139
mjbaker Warrior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 28 Thanks: 1 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? I will post on Ed Dale's forum about this as well. I'm a real newbie, but not so much as I see what a total ripoff Traffic Bug has been. I've been using it, both the trail and paid version for 2 1/2 month or more. I've directly written to Michael, the designer with no direct response. And I've seen no direct response here on the Warrrior Forum. I'm quite sure that their progam was down for about a month when the current year's 'Ed Dale 30 day Challenge' was run, but I don' know that for sure. Only basing that on what I've seen. However, I can report that I used the program to 'bookmark' multiple links. I did not see one direct result from this. I canceled today. Mike

11-01-2009, 08:38 AM	#141
gsport11 HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. Posts: 123 Thanks: 17 Thanked 18 Times in 16 Posts Social Networking	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? I started in 30 day challenge on Aug. 1. Kept on schedule throughout, so whenever it was that the group started using Traffic Bug in August is the day I started with it. I added a number of new and old sites, internal pages, articles in ezinearticles and others. At this point traffic bug reports 1383 directory submissions and 4442 social bookmarks for my entries. I have not seen a single social bookmark appear in any of my checked link searches for any of the pages I entered into traffic-bug. All my links to the newer sites are direct result of my article marketing efforts as are the links to my article directory submissions. I am not taking the valuable time to add anything else to traffic bug until I start seeing results. If that doesn't happen within the next month, I'm quitting the subscription. I've lost a bit of respect for Ed Dale after this experience, although I'm grateful for his endorsement of Market Samurai.
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11-01-2009, 07:44 PM	#142
egenius Warrior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 7 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Hey Guys, Social Bookmarking sites don't really count as backlinks anymore. All they do is get your site indexed faster. Traffic Bug gets my site indexed fast and that is worth the $20 a month. It will help with rankings slightly as most of the those directories will count as low quality backlinks. This software is not a miracle solution but it will get your pages indexed quicker. That is all. Cheers, Mason

11-02-2009, 12:28 AM	#143
ekaram Warrior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 9 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? To me, it has SLOWED the indexing process. I tried it with two brand new wordpress blogs and with the amount of bookmarks and submissions that trafficbug shows, you would believe it would be indexed fast. No, 3 weeks later and none of them were indexed. Stopped traffic bug, manually bookmarked the blogs with onlywire, and 2 and 3 days later they were indexed. Also, I've been running it for about 3 weeks on an established site and although it reports about 1700 bookmarks, amazingly there is NO TRACE or result of any of them. Too bad the author only jumped on this thread to pitch his product, and after the "results" started pouring in he just disappeared. Would have been great to AT LEAST read an explanation instead of "pay me for 2 months and you will see results then". I'm glad to see this thread and confirm that traffic bug is a complete scam. Don't waste your 20 bucks, and most importantly, your TIME with traffic bug. Cheers, Emilio

11-02-2009, 09:52 AM	#144
jsanderz HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 178 Thanks: 62 Thanked 7 Times in 6 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? After reading through all the posts I have decided not to go ahead and use Traffic Bug. Regards.
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11-03-2009, 06:28 AM	#147
jsanderz HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 178 Thanks: 62 Thanked 7 Times in 6 Posts	Re: Anyone using Traffic-Bug? Ekaram, Yes you're right, I was hoping this would work great on a new blog of mine, never mind. Regards.

11-03-2009, 09:21 AM	#148
EZ20Now EZ20Now Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: International Posts: 12 Thanks: 16 Thanked 12 Times in 3 Posts Social Networking	Traffic Bug Scam? Fellow Warriors, I've just been watching the posts here since my last posting on this thread about 3 weeks ago. It's good to know that I'm not alone in my Traffic Bug Scam Saga. I have to say that what I feel at this point more than anything is simply a lack of faith in humanity. This guy has such a great presentation that it's hard not to believe. Unfortunately, like so many of you, the net effect of this saga has been like having a giant carrot hung out in front of me only to have it jerked away from me - not once, but many times over the last 3 months or so by this Michael character. I can't think of anything more cruel than to get someone's hopes up only to have them crushed in such a calloused way. It would be one thing if this guy was really trying and doing his best, and when complaints like ours come in, he jumps on it, deals with it, or even has a humble customer-service-oriented attitude in saying something like, "Yes, we're definitely having some problems, but please stick with me. I'll do whatever it takes to make it right." However, from the lack-luster response I've received from his pitiful excuse for a support department and the lack of response at all from him, I can only conclude that all they are interested in is getting whatever money they can out of us poor suckers that were dumb enough to believe in his presentation and then moving on when the whole thing crashes. Very sad. Anyway, as bad as my experience was at the time of my last post, in the last three weeks I've experienced nothing but more frustration, more dismay and more dismal failure with 12 of the 14 sites on which I used Traffic Bug: - 8 sites are now banned from Google - 4 are not banned from Google, but are also not in the top 1000, even though TB reports thousands of backlinks The remaining 2 are now in the top 10, but only got there after I canceled my TB subscription and moved the sites to a new IP address! On all 14 sites, I can't verify one single backlink, and TB won't respond to my requests to such verification. TB mentions somewhere in the 30DC forum that "it takes a while for the bookmarking backlinks to be seen." While I have verified on this forum and elsewhere that this is true to some degree, my own SEO testing shows that while NONE of the backlinks TB alledges have been created show up, after 2 weeks of manual bookmarking on sites TB was used on as well as TB wasn't used on, 39% of the backlinks we manually created were indexed and showing as backlinks. After 60 days, 86% of what we submitted shows, while still not one single backlink from TB shows. The net result of this service is that for roughly $20 per month, these people will get your hopes up about being able to save all of this time, and on a weekly or monthly basis, they will send you a very basic spreadsheet which my little girl could have created in all of 5 minutes with a bunch of numbers on it that no one can verify, and for all we know, are just pulled out of thin air. The truth is that there are NO backlinks, and no one is going to convince me otherwise. I have come to the same conclusion as another poster above. If I can't find it, then neither can Google (or Yahoo, or anyone else). More to the point, if TB refuses to give a URL to even a single backlink they claim TB has created, then I have no use for them. Period. So the formula here is: NO verifiable backlinks + NO traffic = Traffic Bug Scam I agree with some of the other Warriors here that manual submission is the best way to go, but like so many of you, I've wasted hundreds of dollars proving this to be the case, so, Fellow Warriors, allow me to spare you the same fate! I'm hoping to see this fact change someday, when something like what TB was supposed to be actually proves itself to work. TB would have been great if it wasn't such a scam! I guess the old saying still holds true that if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is! In closing, if after reading these three pages of posts, anyone is still tempted to try this service, here is my suggestion. For $10 per month (half of the cost of Traffic Bug), I'll provide you the same service that Traffic Bug is *really* providing. I'll be more than happy to have my little girl throw some numbers into a spreadsheet and send them to you. I'll even do one better; I'll actually put some effort into making the spreadsheet look good with a cool logo and everything, and I'll even include a message in the email telling you about how wise you are to buy something so worthless from me! Any takers?
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11-03-2009, 11:10 AM	#149
Daniel McGonagle Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: , , USA. Posts: 1,415 Blog Entries: 14 Thanks: 27 Thanked 189 Times in 74 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Absolute BS saying that Traffic Bug is a Scam! I have been in TB for a while now and it's not impressive at all, however it's not a SCAM! How can people saw the following 2 things at the same time? 1- I'm not getting CREDITED backlinks 2- The backlinks I got made my sites get banned How hypocritical and nonsensical is that? Do bad backlinks get your site banned? You might want to read this Link building myth, getting bad backlinks - Link Building Tips + Link building Services Does Traffic bug suck for link building and traffic generation? For the most part yes, but I have seen immediate surges in Adsense impressions on the sites that I use TB to get social bookmarking links for, but only on the first day. Is it a scam? NO Does it overpromise and under-deliver? YES Is it good for anything at all? Possibly, pay the first month's fees and get a lot of low-end SEO Stuff done for you then cancel since most of the work gets done in first few days any ways. Anyone reading this should start a new thread in the SEO section asking if bad backlinks get your site banned, maybe the more knowledgeable SEO folks will set you straight on that myth.
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