Guaranteed Traffic Scams – What They Say and What Actually Happens

There are many services out there claiming that they can get you thousands and thousands, even millions of visitors to your site. Most of these services are really proficient in making the hit-counter go crazy, but unfortunately, these guaranteed traffic sites are scams. Scams as in – the view they give of The guaranteed traffic claims generally follow a pattern:

We’ll send you 10,000 visitors for $20. If your product sells for $10, and it converts at just 1%, you would make $1000 though the traffic we send.

 

Sure enough, with much enthusiasm, you go ahead an buy the traffic that they claim comes from their network of trusted partnering sites with similar content who have agreed to send you this traffic. Now, what actually happens with your “guaranteed traffic” is rather disturbing:

If you were to install one of the high quality trackers on your sites, you would find that over 90% of the traffic they send you comes from an “unknown IP”. Some really high quality trackers will manage picking it up (Veretracking for example, and it’s free). You will then see 900 or so page views per day by the same IP – so either someone really loves your site, or this guaranteed traffic company is a scam. Follow that IP out, and you’ll come to a dummy website. This website has the same theme as your site – so if your website is a home business site, this will be too, or if it’s a cosmetics site, this one will be too. Now this is supposedly the high quality network site where you’re supposed to be getting the guaranteed traffic from. This ‘one page with almost no content’ site is supposedly the source of your guaranteed 10,000 hits. Now, if you track this page even further, and you’ll see that this page has a redirect set up on it – so the people were not visiting this site, they came to this site and it redirected to your site!

So what’s really happening to your guaranteed traffic? Try intercepting this inflow of visitors, and you’ll end up in the pop-up hell – hundreds of pop ups will start appearing, and all from adult sites. At the bottom of each of these pop-ups is a single flashing period. Just a dot. That, my dear guaranteed traffic scammed friend, is your site. So not only is your website being seen by people visiting adult sites, it’s not even being seen! That little dot is the fake site set up by your guaranteed traffic supplier, and the site it redirects to, is your site. This is done using a script (which really isn’t too hard to figure out) that displays the content of a page in the form of a period.

Is it a wonder you didn’t get any increase in sales when they started this? Nope. Now, the other 10% or so of the traffic is incentive drawn – these are people who are paid a cent or so just to visit your site. Occasionally, you might land a sale or two from these people, and many people try to reconcile the expense of the hits with these sales. Of course, your guaranteed traffic terms will read – we make NO guarantee as far as the sales are concerned, we just guarantee the traffic.

However, there are some legitimate guaranteed traffic providers, who do get you actual people looking at your sites, and you will make sales with them. These are far and few in between though.

 

There are just far too many of these scammers around for me to list, but here are some that you should avoid:

 

Trafficgirl

Trafficzoom

jmmlive

i-we-marketing – this is not necessarily a scam, but they use adware to advertise for your site – not something that I would ever want to associate my site with.

 

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