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Hi All,
Does anyone have any experience with, or info about Michael Green's "Traffic Paymaster" software?
#paymaster #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author Vjack
    This does look interesting. I could be wrong as I've never bought any of his products, but he appears to have a reputation for quality stuff. The key value may be in the quality of the article re-write. Of course, these types of sites are at the top of G's hit list - so leaving a signature presents an issue. There are many uses for this - not the least may be setting up a parked domain and letting it rip. Maybe Michael Green will join the thread and address some questions.
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    • Profile picture of the author howtocorp
      Hi guys,

      Just spotted your TrafficPaymaster discussion (an internet marketers lesson to remember track Traffic Paymaster as two words in Google Alerts - as you happen to have it in this thread - and not just as the joined up TrafficPaymaster as I had it set up).

      Anyway, you've raised a couple of interesting questions about TrafficPaymaster and how it works.

      First of all the quality of article re-writing is of course key. We've therefore integrated TrafficPaymaster with the best re-writing software on the market - TheBestSpinner. This software learns from experience of others and presents the best alternatives. All that happens automatically within TrafficPaymaster so there's no user interaction required, other than setting a couple of preferences like quality of article and whether you wish to strip URLs from within the finished article.

      But there are of course thousands of article directories and pages built around article content and this won't really cut it any more. After the Google Panda update even having article based unique content on its own may not be enough. Read our recent TrafficPaymaster Blog post - Is Article Marketing Dead here.

      So what TrafficPaymaster does is to take a whole bunch of other related content like pictures, YouTube videos, RSS Feeds, Twitter and much else and integrates that into automatically built pages which focus exclusively around a Keyword Phrase. The Keyword Phrase file itself is downloaded from Google's External Keyword Tool and so you know that the pages being built are for subjects that people want to read about.

      It's pretty clever stuff :-)

      People often ask what a TrafficPaymaster website looks like. There is no particular answer to that. They look like any other website or whatever you'd like them to look like. We provide some TPM Templates with the software and you can see some sample templates here:
      http://www.trafficpaymaster.com/blog...ges-look-like/

      But equally they can look like your current website if you're adding TrafficPaymaster to the backend of your existing site.

      But as Vjack points out here:

      There are many uses for this - not the least may be setting up a parked domain and letting it rip. Maybe Michael Green will join the thread and address some questions.
      And that's absolutely the point of TPM. There are literally dozens of different ways to use the software from building exclusive TrafficPaymaster websites.... to bolting it on to the backend of your existing website... to simply installing it on some parked domain that you might already have and adding Google AdSense to the pages (most of the existing TPM Templates already contain space for AdSense). You can use TrafficPaymaster to recommend your own website elsewhere or a third-party website to which you might be affiliated. Once you have this software which you can install on as many servers as you like, it's basically an endless opportunity to generate traffic in many different ways.

      Interestingly most internet marketers don't know about TrafficPaymaster. We like to think of TPM as one of the web's best kept SEO secrets ;-) We've never attempted to mass sell it. We don't have any affiliates or Joint Venture Partners marketing the software and so you're not receiving inbox hype about TrafficPaymaster. And that's by design.

      As you'll see from this testimonial page http://www.trafficpaymaster.com/blog...l-users-think/ those who have obtained a copy love it :-)

      And I should mention that Warriors are entitled to this special discount not available elsewhere: http://www.trafficpaymaster.com/specialoffer/vowso.php

      Sorry I didn't spot your question sooner. That's the low-down on TrafficPaymaster and feel free to post questions back. I'm watching this thread now and anywhere where TrafficPaymaster or Traffic Paymaster (with the space) are mentioned from now on!

      Michael Green (and Seb Fox)
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  • Profile picture of the author smith33122
    Its a pity we cannot get the payment plan option with the discount
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  • Profile picture of the author shaunkerry
    After all the recent Google updates, has any one any experience of this system still working ?
    thanks
    Shaun
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    • Profile picture of the author howtocorp
      Originally Posted by shaunkerry View Post

      After all the recent Google updates, has any one any experience of this system still working ?
      thanks
      Shaun
      Hi Shaun,

      Yes absolutely still works a treat. Actually we built the site (took 14 minutes including installing the software and setting up the TPM Dashboard) shown in the screen dump above all in the past 10 days. Very much post Panda.

      No problems at all. The whole thing got indexed and rankings continued to improve until we deleted the site.

      There's nothing about TrafficPaymaster pages that Google doesn't like. In fact search engines love good information, well presented, with more than just a spun article stuck on the page (which tends to be the auto blogging alternative).

      In fact we've only ever found TrafficPaymaster to be better positioned after each successive Google change. We don't have thousands of users, so we're very much under the radar which is even better.

      On the subject here is what one of our users has just told us:
      I'm not new to autoblogging, have done it in the past. I know TPM will produce traffic growth with the article spinning working as it should.

      Using TPM is definitely less hassle than using wordpress autoblogging plugins and it is definitely much more under the radar.

      Best Regards,



      Sebastian Fox
      TrafficPaymaster | Where Will You Send Your Web Traffic Roadblock?
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      • Profile picture of the author Graham McLay
        Hi
        I've watched the videos, and TPM looks very impressive, which fits well with Michael Green's reputation for producing good stuff. My question is, can we use PLR articles that we have the rights to, in TPM to build the sites? And also with regard to the pictures used on the sites, where are they sourced from? If the sites are built automatically, we would need to be sure there would be no copyright issues.
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        • Profile picture of the author chill_007
          Originally Posted by Graham McLay View Post

          Hi
          I've watched the videos, and TPM looks very impressive, which fits well with Michael Green's reputation for producing good stuff. My question is, can we use PLR articles that we have the rights to, in TPM to build the sites? And also with regard to the pictures used on the sites, where are they sourced from? If the sites are built automatically, we would need to be sure there would be no copyright issues.
          If this software is designed to scrape the content of other websites, including their pictures... I would be a bit concerned as we are entering a new era where the FCC is cracking down very seriously on even the smallest forms of piracy. Article spinning is pretty much where I draw the line.
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        • Profile picture of the author howtocorp
          Hi Graham and chill_007,

          Let me try to answer your points...

          Originally Posted by Graham McLay View Post

          Hi
          I've watched the videos, and TPM looks very impressive, which fits well with Michael Green's reputation for producing good stuff.
          Thanks. Hopefully my HowToCorp reputation is right up there too

          My question is, can we use PLR articles that we have the rights to, in TPM to build the sites?
          Yes you can use PLR articles. However these would be used as a backup if it transpired that TrafficPaymaster can't find a suitable article that closely matches the subject of the page being generated (that's very rare indeed).

          However the facility is right there to enter your own articles (could be PLR of course) and have TPM use these whenever nothing else is available.

          And also with regard to the pictures used on the sites, where are they sourced from? If the sites are built automatically, we would need to be sure there would be no copyright issues.
          and...

          If this software is designed to scrape the content of other websites, including their pictures... I would be a bit concerned as we are entering a new era where the FCC is cracking down very seriously on even the smallest forms of piracy. Article spinning is pretty much where I draw the line.
          To answer both these points you need have no concerns with TPM. We only source images which are copyright free and available for use.

          To underline this point I can tell you that despite the many hundreds of thousands of pages (more likely millions) that have been output from TPM, there has not been a single complaint raised. But as I say, that's because the images used are 100% copyright free and available for reproduction.

          Incidentally, TPM owners are typically very impressed by just how accurate the pictures selected generally are to the subject of the page. Obviously TPM can't "see" those pictures so it's having to rely on the description text afforded to them. Yet we reliably see pages produced by TrafficPaymaster where the subject matter and images are spot on in sync with each other!

          Needs to be seen to full appreciate.
          Seb Fox
          http://www.TrafficPaymaster.com
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          • Profile picture of the author Graham McLay
            Thanks for your earlier reply

            First of all the quality of article re-writing is of course key. We've therefore integrated TrafficPaymaster with the best re-writing software on the market - TheBestSpinner. This software learns from experience of others and presents the best alternatives. All that happens automatically within TrafficPaymaster so there's no user interaction required, other than setting a couple of preferences like quality of article and whether you wish to strip URLs from within the finished article.

            But there are of course thousands of article directories and pages built around article content and this won't really cut it any more. After the Google Panda update even having article based unique content on its own may not be enough. Read our recent TrafficPaymaster Blog post - Is Article Marketing Dead here.
            So are the articles sourced from article directories such as ezine articles, and if sourced from directories, are they allowed to be re-written? Or are they sourced from your own article stock?

            Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author howtocorp
    So are the articles sourced from article directories such as ezine articles, and if sourced from directories, are they allowed to be re-written? Or are they sourced from your own article stock?
    We source the articles from a range of directories, but only where the terms allow us to re-write the articles.

    You can add your own article stock and this is provided as a backup mechanism just in case a subject is so niche that no one has written anything close. Very very unusual.

    The articles are re-written using TheBestSpinner and the API for this is built into TrafficPaymaster, so you don't need to make a separate TBS purchase now or in the future as far as TPM use is concerned.

    Looking forward to welcoming you aboard http://www.TrafficPaymaster.com

    Seb.

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    • Profile picture of the author Graham McLay
      With regard to the sites produced by Traffic Paymaster, do these sites have standard legal pages such as privacy policy, terms etc, or would we have to manually add them, as all sites these days are expected to have basic legal pages?
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      • Profile picture of the author howtocorp
        Originally Posted by Graham McLay View Post

        With regard to the sites produced by Traffic Paymaster, do these sites have standard legal pages such as privacy policy, terms etc, or would we have to manually add them, as all sites these days are expected to have basic legal pages?
        Yes, though I'd always encourage owners to amend the blurb to make it reasonably unique. Otherwise it's a give-away sign to the Search Engines.

        Here's the way I've done it on my latest TrafficPaymaster site:
        Contact, Privacy and Disclaimer

        Just looks right I think :-)

        Seb.
        TrafficPaymaster | Where Will You Send Your Web Traffic Roadblock?
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        • Profile picture of the author Graham McLay
          Thanks for the reply. I took a look at the pages. I also took a look around the site, and one thing I noticed was that the articles weren't (in my opinion) easily readable due to the spinning. I'm not a big fan of spun articles (in terms of readability), but am curious as to if this site example is a money maker site, or are the sites that you have like this one used mainly for backlinking to a main money maker site.

          Also, can you set up on the system standard legal pages that get automatically modified for each domain before being added to each site? Or is some manual adjustment and insertion required for each site created?

          Thanks
          Sorry for so many questions.
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          • Profile picture of the author howtocorp
            Originally Posted by Graham McLay View Post

            Thanks for the reply. I took a look at the pages. I also took a look around the site, and one thing I noticed was that the articles weren't (in my opinion) easily readable due to the spinning. I'm not a big fan of spun articles (in terms of readability)
            I know the arguments rage about spun articles, but whatever anyone thinks of them the truth is that they do work as far as attracting Search Engines is concerned. In terms of the quality of the articles obviously TrafficPaymaster is able to do whatever TheBestSpinner can achieve, no more or less.

            In the case of the TrafficPaymaster pages you're viewing at http://www.Golf-Swing-Help.org I've set the quality to BETTER which is actually the medium setting. Setting to BEST will provide noticeably improved articles. The balance is between originality and quality of course.

            Anyway, the key thing is that this is comfortably good enough to work from an SEO point of view and passes the 20 second test for a real human being turning up and having a scan read too. If you wanted better than you'd just select to BEST in the TPM Dashboard.

            but am curious as to if this site example is a money maker site, or are the sites that you have like this one used mainly for backlinking to a main money maker site.
            When we first built TPM it was for two purposes:

            1. Backlinking.
            2. Displaying Money Sites to bring truckloads of traffic wherever you like.

            As things have developed we discovered a lot of owners were enjoying using TPM for passive income generation via the AdSense type advertising, Amazon Partner, etc, etc. So it can be used in any way. The particular sample site will achieve both because it displays a Money Site AND PayPerClick+Amazon.

            Also, can you set up on the system standard legal pages that get automatically modified for each domain before being added to each site? Or is some manual adjustment and insertion required for each site created?
            It can be fully automated, but I personal recommend always amending slightly the standard legal, contact us, etc pages. Don't allow your work to look like it's out of a can. We provide the templates but I would recommend tweaking them. Take 5 mins!

            Seb.
            http://www.TrafficPaymaster.com
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            • Profile picture of the author Graham McLay
              Hi Seb
              Thanks for your quality replies. I'm definitely looking to purchase Traffic Paymaster, and I have noticed on the Traffic Paymaster site that Viglinks will be supported. I am in the UK, and believe that anyone outside the US must pay 30% taxes to the IRS, on Viglinks earnings, but I'm sure I would also have to pay taxes to the UK Government as well.

              My question is if Traffic Paymaster would be able to support Skimlinks (assuming you have heard of Skimlinks, which is very similar to Viglinks, but based in the UK). I think I would be able to enter the Skimlinks code manually into the Traffic Paymaster pages, but an automated option would be much better, if it's possible. I think Skimlinks is also available to non UK publishers, so it would be a good additional monetisation option to include with Traffic Paymaster, if it's possible.

              Thanks
              Graham
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              • Profile picture of the author howtocorp
                Originally Posted by Graham McLay View Post

                Hi Seb
                Thanks for your quality replies. I'm definitely looking to purchase Traffic Paymaster, and I have noticed on the Traffic Paymaster site that Viglinks will be supported. I am in the UK, and believe that anyone outside the US must pay 30% taxes to the IRS, on Viglinks earnings, but I'm sure I would also have to pay taxes to the UK Government as well.
                Hi Graham,

                We're flighted that you're going to get yourself a copy of TrafficPaymaster. And yes you're right about the integration of VigLinks. Although we can't provide tax advice (obviously) we are under the impression that you can complete their section entitled, "Are you a U.S. citizen, U.S. resident alien, U.S. partnership, or U.S. corporation?" which gives you the opportunity to demonstrate that you're not a US taxpayer and therefore fall under UK taxation instead. However..."

                My question is if Traffic Paymaster would be able to support Skimlinks (assuming you have heard of Skimlinks, which is very similar to Viglinks, but based in the UK). I think I would be able to enter the Skimlinks code manually into the Traffic Paymaster pages, but an automated option would be much better, if it's possible. I think Skimlinks is also available to non UK publishers, so it would be a good additional monetisation option to include with Traffic Paymaster, if it's possible.
                The good news is that we're already Skimlinks compatible. We just haven't made it public yet. However, we're good to go with Skimlinks and yes, you heard it here first!

                Looking forward to welcoming you aboard http://www.TrafficPaymaster.com
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  • Profile picture of the author desley
    Originally Posted by 2nd mouse View Post

    Hi All,
    Does anyone have any experience with, or info about Michael Green's "Traffic Paymaster" software?
    Yes I purchased the pro version. If you're using the Go Daddy webhosting - the cron jobs are an absolute pain the neck and the vendor doesn't have enough information re the Go Daddy system to support the customer to effectively undertake the cron job section. The majority of the videos are quite step by step - except for the Cron jobs which are the guts of the overall system - and only appear useful if you utilise a cpanel type hosting package can you gain a good idea (which Go Daddy does not do).

    One thing I will say is - be very, very sure that you do want to purchase this system as the vendor refuses to refund and even escalating to a Paypal dispute may not see your money outlayed returned. The vendor will fight to the hilt to provide a refund.
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      • Profile picture of the author Eboyd
        In addition to above - anyone considering buying software from this lot (assuming it's still available as all their websites seem to have mysteriously disappeared) should be aware that Grant Shapps, Michael Green & Sebastian Fox are one and the same person."
        Advertising standard authority in UK is now closely examing/investigating "these people" -- looks like they could be in big trouble.
        Channel 4 - UK TV broadcaster - has investigated some of the "people" who have endorsed/recommended the products and can find no trace of them or their organisations.
        Looking more and more like a big scam - with possible illegal actions - by the day.
        As Shapps has recently been promoted to Chairman of the Conservative Party the spotlight is firmly on him and his internet activities - this spotlight will only get brighter - this story has legs and will run.
        Watch this space.
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