WORST LIST OF TRAFFIC EXCHANGE SITES
This is a self experiment list of traffic exchanged sites out there that I have come across in my vain to get more traffic and online awareness for my site "SEO WEB ANALYST".
First of all I know a lot of us webmasters, SEO specialist, social media marketers and search engine marketers do know that to sell anything online via websites, you surely need web traffic, which to me is different from targeted traffic.
When you buy traffic from traffic companies, that promise to provide targeted traffic I personally don't believe that they do provide such, what they provide is a swarm of traffic Hits from a specific region more like traffic exchange systems, worst they place your site on some impressions rotator which they are in partnership with in their network.
So for example I bought a 500USD worth of traffic from some company (NAME WON'T BE DISCLOSED) they promise to give you discount when you sign up and free traffic too, they are very popular with the word "revisitOR" :) so they send over 100,000 within 5 days and my Google Analytic read 600, am sure some of us must have experienced this from most of this companies...my thought of their service was that if I get that much I should have at least one purchase of my 47$ product, I was furious and I contacted them with my disappointing results (even when I changed the capture page 5x still no single sign up from their 100,000 visitors within 5 days), they replied me that Google does not read all their traffic source correctly and that it takes more than 100,000 visitors (more likely impressions to me) to get my first sales!
I told them my mind, trust me, and I ordered for a refund of what was left of my money and that they I decided to learn how to get targeted traffic the ethical way! (SEO was born in me on that day.)
Traffic exchange, have heard of it and I never tried it all this years, even when I signed up with traffic swarm when it was still young back in 2008.
So I decided to do a bit of trafficking traffic to my site to get some wicked ranking ratio for a tough keyword I am trying to rank for (some keywords will only rank you if your traffic is paired with your peers on the ranking table)
There are other authentic methods to do this, but I wanted fast results (yep don't want to spend a dime, could have just go for paid search engine PAY-PER-CLICK), so I arranged the list of some traffic exchange sites I could gather. (Please the intent of this list is not to promote this sites! BE WARNED !! you may not recover easily like I did.)
Out of this list I could say Traffup and Yibbida was better because the duration of visit and bounce rate was better compared to any other, Alexaboostup got better alexa ranking but at what price? higher bounce rate, reduced time on site, zero page views and stupendously destroyed your online authority, because when you do an alexa check up on such sites their alexa ranking is good, but terrible metrics that does not woe an advertiser to want to check your site out.
And the trick they do is to use Google url for their keywords (I tried this too) on alexa boost up to protect their image, what do you get is this in return, on alexa you already have a search engine traffic stream, and it shows a different percent in related to the upstream traffic for search engine, eg I have upstream of search traffic from Google rating me 8% but my search traffic contribution is 4.8 %, so you see this two does not tally, and again you will be damaging your site if it was ranking on Google for a competitive keyword.
My advice use this alexaboostup cautiously, don't over do it, it can be addictive but a bit of spin with it is not bad, if you have the kind of metrics I have, now am building them back so they can be better off than before.
In conclusion don't do traffic exchange for your sites, if it is not necessary and do it in a minimal way, focus on branding and adding things that will reduce your bounce rates (like video, like load time, like incentives, etc you think of something relevant to your niche) don't say because I didn't mention one of your favourite, that it is safe, It's not! I barely survived using all this 10 traffic exchange systems, because I once had a 205 URL AUTHORITY RANK fromSite Explorer & Backlink Checker but last I checked during my crisis it was 37 (my site metrics was part of my url authority, at least now I know). Try to rebuild my reputation :) now and achieve more traffic via organic seo (it builds more authority and branding).
Thanks for reading this far with me, hope the article was useful to you as it was useful to me, more research coming your way...
say during my seo optimization of seo consulting services back then in February, I noticed a site that was just popping up for every seo related keywords, the site got to 66k of alexa ranking within 3 months and when I finally got my first ranking for Seo consulting firm when I did a bit of Page research on Ahref on them I noticed they have now discarded all their back links and now have just 100 links and are still ranking for some competitive keyword unlike before (some even changed their site).
Am not an hater but seriously why will some seo sites just go through all this to get clients, and then spoil the reputation of other legitimate seo services companies. I read from a news email from webpronews of a client that complained that after he ranked, the so called seo firm knew the contract had ended and they do the normal project closure documents, but asked if the man will go on a ranking maintenance package (silly package) so the man can maintain is position, he refused and the following couple of weeks this man rankings dropped and the seo firm denied this, the site was panda and penguin safe, so the suspicious thought I had was that they were paying for the man's link building and when they unsubscribed, the links started dropping (Have experienced it before, even if you don't subscribe, when you loose your quality links, your ranking drops). At least it takes time before your competitors climb on you with positions, and funny thing is if you did better than them in that position, Google have their way of placing you back, I check 3 times in a roll my position for the keyword "seo consulting" on Google and I noticed it kept dancing on the positions, the search engine is trying to figure which of us does better, if you see my alexa you will see that seo consulting contributes the highest to my total search traffic, I may not rank on Google for the keyword but do rank in other Google local searches.
I think their should be some sort of reviews on the methodology and operating services seo firms operate on, so they don't turn the job into a scam job or what do you think?
First of all I know a lot of us webmasters, SEO specialist, social media marketers and search engine marketers do know that to sell anything online via websites, you surely need web traffic, which to me is different from targeted traffic.
When you buy traffic from traffic companies, that promise to provide targeted traffic I personally don't believe that they do provide such, what they provide is a swarm of traffic Hits from a specific region more like traffic exchange systems, worst they place your site on some impressions rotator which they are in partnership with in their network.
So for example I bought a 500USD worth of traffic from some company (NAME WON'T BE DISCLOSED) they promise to give you discount when you sign up and free traffic too, they are very popular with the word "revisitOR" :) so they send over 100,000 within 5 days and my Google Analytic read 600, am sure some of us must have experienced this from most of this companies...my thought of their service was that if I get that much I should have at least one purchase of my 47$ product, I was furious and I contacted them with my disappointing results (even when I changed the capture page 5x still no single sign up from their 100,000 visitors within 5 days), they replied me that Google does not read all their traffic source correctly and that it takes more than 100,000 visitors (more likely impressions to me) to get my first sales!
I told them my mind, trust me, and I ordered for a refund of what was left of my money and that they I decided to learn how to get targeted traffic the ethical way! (SEO was born in me on that day.)
Traffic exchange, have heard of it and I never tried it all this years, even when I signed up with traffic swarm when it was still young back in 2008.
So I decided to do a bit of trafficking traffic to my site to get some wicked ranking ratio for a tough keyword I am trying to rank for (some keywords will only rank you if your traffic is paired with your peers on the ranking table)
There are other authentic methods to do this, but I wanted fast results (yep don't want to spend a dime, could have just go for paid search engine PAY-PER-CLICK), so I arranged the list of some traffic exchange sites I could gather. (Please the intent of this list is not to promote this sites! BE WARNED !! you may not recover easily like I did.)
- Hitleap
- Vasthits
- Yibbida
- Easyhits4u
- Traffup
- Trafficg
- Alexaboostup
- SiteXplosion
- Trafficswarm
- Linkreferral
Out of this list I could say Traffup and Yibbida was better because the duration of visit and bounce rate was better compared to any other, Alexaboostup got better alexa ranking but at what price? higher bounce rate, reduced time on site, zero page views and stupendously destroyed your online authority, because when you do an alexa check up on such sites their alexa ranking is good, but terrible metrics that does not woe an advertiser to want to check your site out.
And the trick they do is to use Google url for their keywords (I tried this too) on alexa boost up to protect their image, what do you get is this in return, on alexa you already have a search engine traffic stream, and it shows a different percent in related to the upstream traffic for search engine, eg I have upstream of search traffic from Google rating me 8% but my search traffic contribution is 4.8 %, so you see this two does not tally, and again you will be damaging your site if it was ranking on Google for a competitive keyword.
My advice use this alexaboostup cautiously, don't over do it, it can be addictive but a bit of spin with it is not bad, if you have the kind of metrics I have, now am building them back so they can be better off than before.
In conclusion don't do traffic exchange for your sites, if it is not necessary and do it in a minimal way, focus on branding and adding things that will reduce your bounce rates (like video, like load time, like incentives, etc you think of something relevant to your niche) don't say because I didn't mention one of your favourite, that it is safe, It's not! I barely survived using all this 10 traffic exchange systems, because I once had a 205 URL AUTHORITY RANK fromSite Explorer & Backlink Checker but last I checked during my crisis it was 37 (my site metrics was part of my url authority, at least now I know). Try to rebuild my reputation :) now and achieve more traffic via organic seo (it builds more authority and branding).
Thanks for reading this far with me, hope the article was useful to you as it was useful to me, more research coming your way...
say during my seo optimization of seo consulting services back then in February, I noticed a site that was just popping up for every seo related keywords, the site got to 66k of alexa ranking within 3 months and when I finally got my first ranking for Seo consulting firm when I did a bit of Page research on Ahref on them I noticed they have now discarded all their back links and now have just 100 links and are still ranking for some competitive keyword unlike before (some even changed their site).
Am not an hater but seriously why will some seo sites just go through all this to get clients, and then spoil the reputation of other legitimate seo services companies. I read from a news email from webpronews of a client that complained that after he ranked, the so called seo firm knew the contract had ended and they do the normal project closure documents, but asked if the man will go on a ranking maintenance package (silly package) so the man can maintain is position, he refused and the following couple of weeks this man rankings dropped and the seo firm denied this, the site was panda and penguin safe, so the suspicious thought I had was that they were paying for the man's link building and when they unsubscribed, the links started dropping (Have experienced it before, even if you don't subscribe, when you loose your quality links, your ranking drops). At least it takes time before your competitors climb on you with positions, and funny thing is if you did better than them in that position, Google have their way of placing you back, I check 3 times in a roll my position for the keyword "seo consulting" on Google and I noticed it kept dancing on the positions, the search engine is trying to figure which of us does better, if you see my alexa you will see that seo consulting contributes the highest to my total search traffic, I may not rank on Google for the keyword but do rank in other Google local searches.
I think their should be some sort of reviews on the methodology and operating services seo firms operate on, so they don't turn the job into a scam job or what do you think?
(source:- Quora)
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