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How do scammers build dead traffic

by ahojvole
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Hi,

I have recently purchased a traffic of at least 2000 visitors per day to a website. I wanted to try it, no past experience with such service.

Google analytics shows over 2000 daily visitors, that criterion is met however the traffic seems to be completely dead. 98% of those visitors bounce right away.

Analytics show two sources of that portion of traffic,
1) Facebook - there are certain verified fanpages posting statuses
2) A website displaying my banner but the website itself does not seem to even have that kind of traffic.

My question is how do you create dead traffic? What does that traffic consist of, is it real people or bots or what?

Such traffic is obviously waste of money and time yet how come it is able to fool Google analytics.
#build #dead #scammers #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author travlinguy
    One way is people in underdeveloped countries work at click farms. They sit at a computer all day and each receive thousands of links (like yours) and click them. They stay for a very minimal interval and then click the next one. You got your visitors and they might get a tenth of a penny per click. Nice, huh? There are plenty of other methods out there as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Silvey
    First you want real traffic.
    Second, you don't want that traffic to bounce. Cheap services like that can actually hurt your organic positioning.

    Just use solid white hat ways to drive traffic. If your going to pay for anything, try PPC. At least you will be able to target your traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marc Rodill
    Like he said above, it's either bot traffic or a click farm. Both are a total waste of your time. The offer is appealing which is why people buy it in the first place, but you quickly live and learn and move onto something that works.

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  • Profile picture of the author ADRD
    Could it not just be a PPC campaign from sites like bux.to?
    Wonder if the traffic will ever just "stop"?
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  • Profile picture of the author SuperKristen
    Scammers use services like addmefast(dot)com types site.
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    • Profile picture of the author ahojvole
      Originally Posted by travlinguy View Post

      One way is people in underdeveloped countries work at click farms. They sit at a computer all day and each receive thousands of links (like yours) and click them. They stay for a very minimal interval and then click the next one. You got your visitors and they might get a tenth of a penny per click. Nice, huh? There are plenty of other methods out there as well.
      Thats a good point, I completely forgot about those. Thats probably not the case here because Google Analytics show majority coming from my country (central europe). Any other methods come into mind?

      Originally Posted by ADRD View Post

      Could it not just be a PPC campaign from sites like bux.to?
      Wonder if the traffic will ever just "stop"?
      What do you mean "the traffic ever just stop?"

      Originally Posted by SuperKristen View Post

      Scammers use services like addmefast(dot)com types site.
      I see. From their homepage I dont really understand what they do though.
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