Anyone using Traffic-Bug?

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

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

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

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?

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.

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?

Thanks for the reviews

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...

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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?

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??

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

cheers
Stuckster

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pearson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bookmarking Demon?
using Socialmarker.com?

Any suggestions would be great...

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

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

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

Kathy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Howard

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gary

Thanks Viv.

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

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

Gary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hello All!

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

The summary of what I see above is this:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

They have 3890 backlinks to their domain:

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

Pearson

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm highly satisfied with Traffic Bug

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

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

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,

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

"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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 .... :>) "

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.

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.

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.

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? :rolleyes:

Daniel,

I checked out that link you posted. VERY good stuff. Thanks for taking the time to provide it!

Daniel,

I'll be spending more time on your blog in the future. Very strong information. You appear to be a very detail-oriented guy - something I think we need more if in IM.

"This thread should not about the quality of Michael's character, but rather about the quality of the Traffic Bug product. A product is something that members of this forum should be able to comment on and review, but suggesting people's intention to deceive is not what this forum is about."

Amen to that. I've had more trouble with moderating this thread than with all the others combined ;-)

Talk about the PRODUCT, not the person behind the product. And certainly not about third parties such as Ed Dale, 30DC or Market Samurai. If you have issues with them, take it to their forums, not here.

Otherwise, I'm going to have to block the thread.

Pearson

I had a feeling about T.B., hence my pass through the W.F.

I just wanted to thank everyone in this thread...for taking the time to articulate your experiences - It has saved me from potentially wasting my time.
Additionally, I use and love M.S. (mostly the competition module), but at least I also know now - not to bother with the T.B. feature inside M.S.

Thanks much,

Doug

Anyone tried the link juicer? I switch from it to traffic bug.

I use these kind of service for link variation, not really using it for ranking purpose.

Wow glad I checked, I was ready to sign up and thought I would double check the good old warrior forum, think I will pass on this one..

I've been using it and find it to be a decent system for submitting sites to RSS directories, social bookmarking sites and directories. Previously I was software where you would have to create accounts and fill in capcha codes. With Traffic Bug, you just fill out all the site details, add about 5 alternate titles and descriptions and hit submit. So it saves you a lot of time that way not having to create accounts. That's what I signed up for.

Now, I know it is actually doing it's job because I'm getting emails all the time from the directories my sites are being submitted to and I have seen extra backlinks appearing pointing to my sites and the sites are doing fairly well too. Those I used to have trouble keeping in the top 10 which would sometimes not even be listed at all, now seem to be fixed in the top 10 or 20.

As for social bookmarking, you probably won't see much benefit from that in the long term. If you're promoting blogs you really need to be submitting each individual post to Traffic Bug, but set to medium aggression. If you have Market Samurai, it's built into that.

I might need to put up a new site just to test this... too many bad comments here and the owner don't even bother to answer some of the questions in this thread.

I've been looking for a service like traffic-bug, and it seems very promising to me, just didn't use it for ranking but for varying my links

If everyone don't get any links from it, that means something is wrong! Let me test for another month before any conclusion made...

The 30 day challenge people have a great funnel they're using to direct people to this service. I'm checking it out during the trial. I figured why not. It's not user friendly and still seems very beta to be charging people for it. They should finish the software and then roll it out. People might pay for the finished product but filling the net with negative reviews before your product is ready for prime time only hurts you.

hi all, i'm new here.

i bought traffic bug and can say for certain that they absolutely did not deliver for me.

after two months of paid membership i cancelled my account. i emailed for a refund as i had received 0 backlinks and didn't get one (wasn't surprised really)

not only did i not receive any backlinks, i also wasn't getting any other links i created manually picked up. i can't explain it, but after having cancelled just last week, i am now starting to receive backlinks to my first IM site, which leads to conclude that for some reason the TB system affected my site.

I'm glad i have nothing more to do with the TB service. The cheek of it all is that i was told that it should take 2-3 months for backlinks to appear.

Now, to give TB the benefit of the doubt and assume the service is frigging incredible, why does it take 2-3 months for backlinks to appear when BLinks can appear much faster doing things manually?