Phil

Hi,
anyone else using Traffic-Bug (dot) com?

I don't see much chat about it so I guess it's still relatively new
on the scene - so how about some reviews?

I think it can be really strong - I'm interested to exchange opinions
on it - and reviews, if you use it.

Phil

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Michael R Roberts

Hello Phil,

Actually the software is still in Beta and isn't quite open to the general public yet. Traffic-Bug has only done two small launches to the Immediate Edge Members and the Take Over Page One members.

It will be opening it's doors to the general public soon though!

The software completely automates:
Social Bookmarking
RSS distribution
Directory Submissions
Search Engine Submissions

To get the full potential of the software you should do the two of the following things.
1. Wait two months. This is not some secret sales pitch or marketing scheme....Traffic-Bug is really the only software that completely automates "Directory Submissions" and even does all the CAPTCHA behind the scenes...however as I am sure we all know Directories are slower than snot to approve links. About 50% of the directories the software submits to can take upto 60 days to approve new links. So that means what Traffic-Bug does for you today will give you immediate benefit through RSS distribution and bookmarking but also much longer term benefits once those directory submission links start showing up.

2. The second thing that really makes Traffic-Bug crazy powerful is by submitting your web 2.0 sites into. So if you have a money page: "monkeybusiness" create a weebly page, hub, and squidoo pages that all link back to your money site. Now input these web 2.0 sites into traffic-bug with the "Micro Site" option selected in the related URL's form. What this does is allows your web 2.0 sites to build their own backlinks. So now you have a squidoo page that will eventually build up 1,000 backlinks of it's own...so it becomes a stronger authority and it points back to your money page. Without the use of Traffic-Bug you would really never get this benefit...because who the heck has time to build backlinks for dozens of these web 2.0 sites and articles???

I will get you a few reviews that are floating around as well..


One last thing...
The software was reviewed by Dan, Robert and Ed Dale and after some pretty heavy
testing they found it was so powerful they are including into this years 30 day challenge. If you guys haven't ever heard of the 30dc...you should check it out since it's free and probably the absolute best SEO course one can take for $0.

If you have any specific questions please feel free to email me.


Michael R Roberts

Phil

Hi Michael,
I didn't realise it was still in Beta - my apologies. Didn't mean to let the cat
out of the bag!

I love this program and I am sure that when the rest of the world discovers it,
they will love it too.

And I agree that anyone who isn't on the 30 Day challenge should certainly
get over there right now - I got Market Samurai from it last year and never
looked back; if 30-Day-Challengers are getting access to Traffic-Bug this
year then that's another good reason to get on it.

All the best,
Phil

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Traffic-Bug

Thanks for mentioning Traffic Bug, the software is coming up well and is currently in beta. Here are some review links about Traffic Bug. These are independent reviews so you can kind of see the full potential of the software.

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bluemonkey007

Hi Phil,
I was lucky enough to be a beta tester before the 30 DC and I have to tell you this is the best software I have used to make bookmarks and backlinks for my sites. In less than a month, I had over 1300 bookmarks and 152 backlinks for a brand new site. This software saved me a bunch of time. I am a believer. I watched my site climb up google ranks in a hurry. I am completely sold on this software. At this price, you can't afford to not use Traffic-bug.

Lee

HollandsFinest

Does the software does all the submissions in one day (or even 1 hr) or does it spread this over a certain period?

I can imagine it will raise some red flags at Google when you have a brand new site and all of a sudden this site is submitted to all the top social bookmarking sites, 1000 directories, 139 search engines, RSS Feed submissions at once!

A more natural way would be much more efficient and won´t get your site de-indexed or sandboxed for some months by Google.

Correct me if I am wrong people. Would love to use this software, but I don´t want my money sites gone, because I did a mass submission.

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CaseWhitney

One of the strong points for this program is that it will randomly select your url details to bookmark across different accounts over time.

I think 3-5 submissions per ulr a day at most. Depending on how agressive the settings to give it. This is for giving a natural or random appearance of backlinks to your urls.

HollandsFinest

I am very interested in this software, but is the price on the salespage per month or a one time fee. I guess it´s the first assumption, but hope it´s the latter

Anyone care to mention how and when his/her sites went up since using this software?

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txconx

Yes, I'm confused on the pricing, as well. I assumed monthly subscription, but then it mentions how cheap it is to "buy the software," which confused me.

Could someone from Traffic Bug comment?

HollandsFinest

I have already mailed to the following address in the last 2 days:

support at traffic-bug.com

This is the official support and the respond very quick.

Just asked to question about the costs. Will let you know about it.


Just got a mail back: The price is $24.97 per month and we get the first 11 days free with no strings attached.

I will start the free trial next week, but first I will make sure I have all the URL´s, keywords, titels and descriptions ready so I have a good start right from day 1.

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CaseWhitney

Or you could do the thirty day challenge and get a 40 day unlimited trial and test it out.

HollandsFinest

Yeah, thought of that one too. Might do this, a longer free trial and the monthly fee afterwards is lower also.

Are you in the 30 DC this year? Would be nice to know if we get our hands on Traffic Bug from the moment we sign up or do we have to wait till a certain day?

Is there a special signup for Traffic Bug after signing up for the 30DC or is it a all in one signup?

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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.

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HollandsFinest

Signed up for the 30DC and TB today and already submitted 2 projects/sites to the software.

Now it is sit back and see what happens to those sites.

Will let everyone know how things are progressing.

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quantum_webworks

Hi

I was speaking to a friend about traffic bug. She said she did something similar one time and all she got was an increase in spam?????

I can see the benefits in Traffic Bug but was wondering if anyone has had any dramas or the like with Traffic Bug.

Regards

squall2050

Hi, does anybody know how traffic-bug compare to senuke? They seem to doing the same job...

Michael R Roberts

Hello,

quantum_webworks, You already seem to be aware of the MASS benefits of a software like Traffic-Bug so I won't go into the benefits there, but let me cover your concern.

Traffic-Bug allows for not only "Pen Names" but also for various emails that you define for every project. Traffic-Bug also greatly recommends that you enter a "free" email address to go along with your directory submissions...This is because many directories do send out confirmations or updates reguarding your submission, which could be very annoying if used on your primary email address. With Traffic-Bug however this is never an issue.
To make Traffic-Bug even better though we are constantly monitoring our directories and listen to our customers. Just last week two directories were removed because they sent one peice of spam. We are very serious about keeping a high quality list of directories.

squall2050,
SENUKE and Traffic-Bug are pretty similiar except for a few features.
Traffic-Bug is actually one of the only softwares on the planet that automates this many directories...and by automate I mean 100% automation...we even beat the CAPTCHA for you.
Also Traffic-Bug is about five times easier to use...."So two of our customers have said."
Finnally, Traffic-Bug is only $24.97 per month while SENUKE is something like $100-120 per month...(Not sure on their exact price atm)
I will be completley honest and tell you SENUKE does have a few features we don't have just like we have a few they don't have.
Though we are coming out with more features that we will be releasing for free to our current customers in just mere months.


I highly encourage everyone to go check out Traffic-Bug.
I have made it SUPER FRIENDLY to give it a try.
Just plug in your email address and we will send you a sign up link for an 11 day free trial....we don't even collect your billing info or bill you if you forget to cancel or anything sneaky like that. Just a simple no strings attached free trial.


Thanks guys,


Michael R Roberts

Yudi

SENUke and Traffic Bug are pretty different in my opinion.

SENuke allows you to be totally hands on about how you want to go about distributing your content and getting your links around the web. It just makes the process super automated and super fast, but you still need to create content, pick which sites you want to upload it to, select which sites you want to bookmark it with and so on.

Traffic Bug, on the other hand is almost totally hands off. You pick the URLs you want to promote, you write a few different titles and descriptions and then you let it go. It randomly picks which bookmarks, directories and RSS sites to promote to and does it quietly in the background.

In my opinion, both are essential tools for dominating the SERPs. I have not yet used them both in tandem, but can only imagine the devastation to my competitors when I do.

Get that content out there in your linkwheels with SENuke and then let Traffic Bug slowly build up all of their authorities over time. It's pretty much insane what you can do.

I would highly recommend that everyone who is serious about IM gets both products and uses them on a regular basis.

djlest

SADLY NOT IMPRESSED WITH TRAFFIC BUG

i was really excited about traffic bug - but please be very careful if using it...

here are my traffic bug reports: sounds too good to be true? yeah it is...

Not only have some of my sites not even been indexed there is not a single link or bookmark to them, so where these figures come from i dont know. I understand directory listings take a while, but there is absolutely no bookmarks so its a fraud....

Now my established sites i was testing are dropping out the SERPS and i have been testing it for 10 days now.

I would love if this tool was as good as it says.... but seriously... i get sent a traffic bug report by email, hoping this is a detailed report where all my links have been submitted. nope its nothing more than what i posted below... be very careful folks. getting indexed is one thing, building links steady is another... this doesn't do anything like that at all as far as i have tested, and believe me i spent a long time and many sites testing this...

Total Directories Submissions: 226
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You are not making sense here.

No software can make your site drop out of search result, especially established site, you are making some mistake on your site, check your webmaster tool.

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HollandsFinest

I submitted several sites last week, but haven´t gotten any spam because of that.

Ofcourse I get the usual spam emails (like everybody does in the online world), but nothing spectacular and certainly no surge in spamming since I submitted the sites to Traffic Bug.

The only emails I get are the ones from the directories, confirming my sites are submitted.

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Leanne King

I use Traffic Bug and have done so for the last month. What I like about is that it is set and forget. I submit my details and use the TB system that does all the work for me. I use other things as well but what I really about TB is that it is hands free for me. I don't need to fill in captcha forms, validate emails or actually have any emails or sign ups (but you can if you want). The only things that were a bit of a grievance is an inability to change pen names - however Mike has said that this feature is coming soon.

Also, it's probably a girly thing but there's something about logging into the pretty interface that always makes me smile.

HollandsFinest

That would be nice, changing the pen name per project.

Now it is set at settings in the backoffice and is applied to all your websites. So if you have 50 websites, they are all submitted by the same pen name.

The ability to edit this per project would be very nice.

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Glenn72

I'm planning on giving this a try.

Just a quick question for Michael if he's still checking this thread.. I've read a number of times that submitting to a whole bunch of directories can do more harm than good. Apparently Google don't value backlinks from directories anymore, unless they're high quality directories such as DMOZ etc. What kind of page rank do most of the directories have that Traffic Bug submits too?

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djlest

I wish i was making a mistake... and as to say no software will make u drop out of the serps, well i can assure you if google doesnt like link farms and dirty links it wont think twice about dropping you.

my traffic was a steady traffic for months, it has now dropped to half in the last 3 days, and all i have implemented was traffic bug...

i would love it if this was a shuffle and things bounce back, but im still holding my breath... so far its just not doing anything but damage...

but to a brand new site, yeah why not use it to get indexed, what have u got to lose!

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Pufferf1sh

I think the aggression levels of Traffic Bug are important. If you don't want to risk unnatural looking link build up then it's probably best to just play it safe and set it to the low aggression level for your primary site's URLs. Better to be patient than risk screwing things up.

I think I will prepare a nice long list of URLs to bookmark and then give the trial a go and see what happens...

Colin Y.J. Chung

Heh. One of my clients -- I convinced her to start using Traffic Bug.

She loves it.

But get this. She looks down at the copyright of Traffic Bug and guess what she sees?

Her hometown.

She's reaching out to Michael just to give him a face-to-face thank you for a wonderful software.

I just want to pay the guy. His payment button doesn't work...

wait...

just checked.

It works now.

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HollandsFinest

Hello Collin,

How long is your client using Traffic Bug? Weeks or months?

And what are her results? How many websites did she submit to the software and for how many did see a jump in traffic?

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Pufferf1sh

I'm a bit worried by the captcha issue. Surely if Traffic Bug goes to all these bookmarking sites, RSS submissions and directories, and then automatically fills out captchas, then it's going to raise some flags somewhere? And what if the captchas get harder to crack, traffic bug becomes redundant?

bluefox

I have been using traffic bug during the 30DC and I have to say I’m very impressed. You have to remember that you don’t want it to go crazy like a horse bolting from the stables as the results will look completely unnatural from Goggle’s point of view.

So it does takes some time to see the results, I’m just starting to see results after nearly three weeks and I think things will accelerate from here.

Although it is a little hard to attribute any increase to my blogs that I have used traffic bug on although I can tell that my new posts are getting indexed extremely fast.

Although the reports that it spits out seem a little fanciful and I really don’t believe that it have saved me 2000+ minutes. You really have to give credit where credit is due for a program that is still in beta and for 25 bucks I think it is good value for what I have seen it do.

That said I think you do have to be careful when using it and it could be that for some people it might do more harm than good.

In a nutshell I think it’s a good program for getting a new blog up there in the serps but is probably wasted time on an established blog.

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Lifeimprovement

I recently signed up to try it. It sounds great.

Here are the problems I am finding:
- Can't find social bookmarks pointing back to my site, even though the program claims to do have done that. I have looked at the bookmarking sites they listed.
- Can't find rss feeds that have been submitted.

Yes, I have heard from the directories.

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timbor

Mate the only way your site will get dropped from the serps if you link back to sites that are in bad neighborhoods.. If sites are linking to you only that is out of control. Otherwise all competitors would build links from these bad neighborhoods to their competition and knock them out of the serps.. it dont happen that way.

There are way too many factors when looking at serps.. have you heard the term google dance?

LadyL08

I started using Traffic Bug through the 30DC. It has a very easy interface. I hope it works. I submitted my first page to it 10 days ago. So far, no increase in traffic to speak of, no big increase in SERPS. None of my links have shown up in Market Samarai.

It's very frustrating to continue to put stuff in the pipeline when you're not sure what's going to come out the other end. But I keep feeding it.

Lynne

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I totally love Traffic-Bug!
I have been using it for 20 days now and with it have been able to resurrect some older blog posts, see newer sites get traffic quickly, and see steady traffic to sites that have seen a decrease. The traffic hasn't been huge but I didn't expect it to be. It will grow as I add more supporting urls to it.

All with just a few minutes a day.

I am very impressed with its ease and simplicity. It's also great that it runs from their server, so you just pop in the details, hit submit, then move on.

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timbor

I was wondering about re submissions for the same urls?

Once all the bookmarking has been done on one particular url.. can you restart it?

curtroese

There is a problem with the software function that imports a .csv file and populates all of the required fields (3 to 6 titles, descriptions, keywords, etc.). So if I want to add articles url's, web 2.0 urls, etc. underneath my main domain, I have to cut and paste to every separate field. Not very functional. Each week I get a very nice response from customer service that they are "days" away from getting it fixed. Considering this is a huge selling point for you to add all of your pages, blog posts, articles, web 2.0 etc to build up your linking network, I would think this would be of more urgency??

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When you are adding URL´s, like Squidoo, hubpages, articles underneath your main project you have got to come up with new titles, descriptions and keywords. Only copy paste them will bring you in a lot of trouble.


This was my question 2 weeks ago to their support:

I will build Squidoo, hubpage, blogger sites around my money site and will submit those also through TB.

Because I want to launch a circle of those web 2.0 sites around my moneysite, I ask myself if I have to come up with unique titles, keywords and descriptions each and every time or can I copy paste them from my main project/site in TB?

And will this get me in some sort of trouble with the search engines?


This was the answer from Michael himself:

Yes you do need to come up with unique titles and descriptions for every single post!

I know it's a pain in the neck but it is very necessary.

The best thing to do is just copy and paste and then try to change the titles by atleast 33%.

This should be enough to fool all spiders!

If you are going to use this accelerated technique please do more than the bare minimum of 3 for best results.

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anteck

I've been using traffic bug now for around 5 weeks...

Easy to use, however not seeing any evidence of the bookmarking being picked up by google.

I have google alerts for the seven sites I currently run, and I get daily alerts from other manual bookmarking efforts I use. However, in over 1000 submissions, I've not seen a single alerts appear from traffic bugs efforts

the directories are emailing confirmations, but again, no alerts from new directories.

Traffic has been steady.

Also haven't seen any new backlinks in yahoo backlinks explored appear fr traffic bugs efforts. I do however see backlinks I've made thru manual bookmarking.

Unfortunately due to these results, I fail to see the service is providing a real benefit.

Uchiha

I found this thread just from googling traffic bug wondering if anyone has had positive results.

For me, it has had a significant negative impact on my sites across the board similar to what djlest has described.

I have seen a decrease in SERPs and traffic across 4 established sites that I submitted, all on low aggression rate and all with unique titles, keywords, descriptions. All of them have seen a decrease in 30-50% in traffic.

I am highly recommending people not to use traffic bug on established sites.

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.

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chrisqw

My money domain has been submitted to 45 bookmarking site over the last 2 weeks. From this it has received zero backlinks.

On the other hand my Weebly, Scribd, Propeller, hub pages and Squidoo sites have all received a good number of backlinks. It seems that the 'Authority' sites get the backlinks, whilst my original site, the one I'm trying to get off the ground, is getting no backlink benefit at all.

HollandsFinest

Maybe it´s a bit early to tell, but is there anyone who has seen his traffic and ranking explode since using Traffic Bug?

I have submitted close to 10 websites and I can see the software is working, many hours have been saved for me and on top of that I get several emails a week one of my sites is submitted to a directory.

And that´s it. No rankings and no extra traffic.

I have checked the sites in Yahoo Site Explorer, Traffic Travis and several other tools, but my sites seems to have no links and I can´t find them on the first 10 pages of Google.

Will this be better in the future? I know the staff is working on a lot of new features, but what I am concerned about is the present situation.

Reading the posts above this one I am not alone, so a clarification from TB would be nice.

My 40 day free trial ends in 6 days and I would like to make a good decision if I should proceed for some extra months.

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phantom701

Please don't waste your money on Traffic Bug. The 30 days challenge people are pushing this extremely hard because they all get revenue share. This is not a good product and the user experience is horrible.

My sites did not rank because of Traffic Bug. The ranking are all due to my own personal and manual work. The sites that Traffic Bug submits to are highly suspicious and very low quality.

There are other much better tool out there. Don't waste your money to help those people get rich.

jimmytron

Thank you for you input, I think I'll stay away for now..

Why do most fail? Because they give up!

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.

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gracebiz1

Are you seeing any benefit from the backlinks to your web 2.0 sites which presumably point to your money domain?

I would be interested to know if anyone has tried using traffic bug JUST for web 2.0 sites and articles and how it works for this.

DireStraits

Personally, I have seen the backlinks that TrafficBug has built.

That said, VERY few of them. Not enough to justify the cost of the monthly membership.

However, I still believe the service is genuine. I do believe it submits to the number of sites it tells you it has. I just think that the sites it's submitting to are so low-profile that they take forever to get picked up by the engines - if indeed they ever do.

Most of the social bookmarking services are probably ones that never got off the ground and are used largely if not only by people who submit masses of links to them for SEO benefit. They're by no means on the same level as sites like Digg or Reddit, etc.

In any case, I continue to use it (will until my trial expires but as yet I won't be buying it) and will report back if I see any major improvements.

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.

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