This Site Is Getting Impossible Traffic???

they must be using a bot to click the alexa toolbar.

If the site was designed to make money then I would guess it's traffic purchases from big sites like yahoo etc...

But this site doesn't even have an affiliate link on it.

What the hell is going on there. I think I smell some black hat.

Yes I know of that. I was referring to the site, not the blog. Yet...the blog only has one post. No way it's driving all the traffic.

Virtually all of the complaints are about their forced continuity program... something a lot of people on the Forum use and even defend.

I didn't see much mention of a problem with the product itself. I think some of the complainants said they had planned to re-order anyway, until they were charged.

dude, it's impossible that simple referrals can generate that amount of traffic. Something else is being used.

I don't see why you think the traffic stats are "impossible".

It's probably a combination of viral and paid advertising. A good feat, but not really a big deal.

When it comes to alexa there's a big difference between 28000 and 39000.
But 5000 uniques a day is pretty damn good man.

Precisely my point as well. I wonder if this person is buying traffic on places like digital point? I hear you can get like 25k visitors for $10 (but it's very very untargeted.)

Alexa is very unreliable. It's just junk...don't use it for anything other than novelty.

Yes this solves the mystery, and they are using tracking "p=19 etc" on the journal pages to test conversion. But they are getting traffic from other than Myspace and Facebook also as there are 18,000 results in google for "www.laurasweightloss.com"

As somebody said they are advertising on expired domain networks, that does not mean they purchased the domain but they have purchased advertising on some expired domain networks.

So they purchased expired traffic and ran ads on myspace, facebook -- what else ???

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No.

The Internet is almost like being in Prison.

Here's why:

I had a friend who got locked up for 6 months for a STUPID reason. So on the first opportunity I got, I went to pay him a visit (horrible experiece by the way). He said that he was doing ok, but he needed some stuff and gave me a list.

Problem was, most of the stuff on his list was banned from prison. Stuff like cigarettes, detol, money, extra blankets etc.

So I started wondering, how am I going to smuggle some of this stuff into prison for my old bud? After thinking it through for almost 2 days, I came to the conclusion that NOTHING is new. I can't possibly think of a way to smuggle this stuff into prison, that one of the other inmates have not thought of and implemented (or tried to) before me.

The prison guards know every trick in the book. If it doesn't go through them, it aint going nowhere.

My point is, trying to think of a way to drive traffic that NO ONE has ever though of before, is like trying to think of a brand new way to smuggle stuff into prison. It aint gonna happen easily (there are exceptions of course)

Read my post above, Oprah and CNN ran news stories endorsing Green Tea and the site positioned itself to catch a lot of the searchers those stories generated via PPC, Facebook Ads and MySpace Ads. Easy as that.

AffiliatePPC

And how do you know that 96% of his traffic is worthless?

Mabey traffic that he is sending to his article/review pages or the main site, yes. But then again from what I've seen from this guy/gal so far, he know's what he's doing, so he is not paying a lot (or at all) for those visitors (probably the expired domain traffic someone mentioned earlier).

He might be thinking that weightloss is a big niche (or bought traffic from expired weightloss domains) and argues that a certain number of visitors will start clicking and eventually land up on the landing page (testimonial page)

And seeing as he is building a forum and recipe section, that tells me he wants to build a community, so a lot of the visitors who are clicking away now will eventually stick and more and more of them will find their way to the testimonial page (as there is a link to it on the top of every page of the site)

In that regard, the traffic may be useless in the short term, but in the long term (and this guy/gal is obviously planning long term) the traffic will become more valuable

He is not sending paid traffic (PPC, FB, MS) to any other page than the testimonial page. And that page is doing exactly what it is supposed to be doing, let the visitor read your message and click on the affiliate link. You don't want them clicking on all sorts of other links. Just your affiliate link, thats it. Presell them and send them to the offer. If your landing page for PPC traffic has a low bounce rate, you are doing something wrong.

In my opinion, those articles and reviews aren't there for people to read (not yet anyway) they are there to get a decent quality score.

I say again, the guy/gal knows what he is doing.

AffiliatePPC

The traffic from that site is not coming from adwords. The keywords used only receive about 2 clicks a day if I checked the correct site. The site I found was from the UK.

Clint

you guys are close but theres a LOT more to what they're doing.

They're using some really high end "ninja" seo stuff. They've probably got THOUSANDS of sites just like the one posted, thousands of links, along with cpa deals and a lot of other stuff we won't get into right now.

the complaints seem to be centered around the continuity.... which isn't uncommon... but... they state it very clearly you're paying for shipping and then if you don't cancel within 14 days you are getting billed x amount for the product AND you will be billed on day 30 for next months shipment.

and so on.

bottom line is people got to read what they're getting, its right there and while everyone seems to want to blame the merchant, no ones putting a gun to these peoples heads and forcing them to buy this stuff.

Shit now i feel like an ass.

I looked closer at compete. Yes they do have alot of links on expired domains but thats not where most of the traffic is from.

Compete says it was 40% from facebook last month.

This month 40% from facebook, msn and myspace combined. They must be spending a few grand a month.

A good business person is competitive and encourages it to further the industry and service for the customer.

A bad business person is competitive and wishes to see everyone but himself fail.

Which one are some of you?