Weird Traffic Behavior. Anyone know why?

[GoodListBuilder]

Over the last couple of weeks I have been experimenting with some paid traffic. I read some good reviews on a company (who I won't mention) so thought I would try them out. They provide reasonably targeted traffic which I understand is supposed to come from expired domains and other advertising. They are not cheap so hoped the traffic might be of better quality than most.

I bought 10 000 visits and for the first 4000 I sent them to a normal page on my website which offers free training and other free stuff. Google analytics showed that about 1500 then viewed my home page and between 300 to 500 viewed most of the other pages which link from it. That all sound quite good but what I thought was slightly unusual was that 400 people viewed my privacy policy, 350 viewed my site T&C and 330 my Disclaimer page.

Personally as a visitor to another website I very rarely, if ever, look at those legal type pages, so I'm beginning to wonder if this traffic is indeed real people as claimed. There has been no new free members signups from these visitors.

A couple of days ago I switched the landing page to a squeeze page (still offering the same free stuff) but which has no other outward links apart from the signup form. I've had over a 1000 visits to the page but not a single email address has been entered and the other strange thing is that the sign up form itself, which is a WP plugin, has only registered about 10 impressions, even though I know it is working correctly.

Can anyone here who has a knowledge of this kind of paid traffic explain what is going on and whether you think these visitors are actually real or not?

I look forward to hearing your comments.

 

[MrRapidHost]

I doubt it its real traffic, probably some bot traffic.

 

[Hawker]

That all sound quite good but what I thought was slightly unusual was that 400 people viewed my privacy policy, 350 viewed my site T&C and 330 my Disclaimer page.

This is bot traffic mate. It's setup to randomly visit some sub-pages on your site. Those pages could be any page that is linked to on the page that the bot is visiting it from.

Sorry to say that to you mate but that is not real traffic.

Also the "it comes from parked pages and expired domains" is just BS.

There is no traffic provider who has an inventory of parked pages and expired domains in many different categories. It's just bot traffic and is useless.

The only thing it's good for is artificially inflating your sites stats, also it can improve other metrics like Alexa rating etc overtime.

But 10k visits all sent in a few days isn't going to make the slightest bit of difference. That only applies when you are getting 10k per day for a few months and you wouldn't want to spend that much on fake/bot traffic for 3 months. You wouldn't get a single sale out of it and it would just use up precious bandwidth.

Try and get a refund if you can mate but I suspect that might be pretty hard given the nature of this business, generally refunds aren't given unless no traffic has been sent.

As traffic has been sent, it's your word against theirs as to the authenticity of the traffic and the sellers will often lie through their teeth to say its real traffic when really, both parties know it's not.

You can take that as the voice of experience.

 

[Tshepo]

I bought 10 000 visits and for the first 4000 I sent them to a normal page on my website which offers free training and other free stuff. Google analytics showed that about 1500 then viewed my home page and between 300 to 500 viewed most of the other pages which link from it. That all sound quite good but what I thought was slightly unusual was that 400 people viewed my privacy policy, 350 viewed my site T&C and 330 my Disclaimer page.

Obviously you could buy a PPC traffic service but if possible, could you give share any screenshots for which you tracked it so that we can give you further info or better analytic which traffic source have you got.

A couple of days ago I switched the landing page to a squeeze page (still offering the same free stuff) but which has no other outward links apart from the signup form. I've had over a 1000 visits to the page but not a single email address has been entered and the other strange thing is that the sign up form itself, which is a WP plugin, has only registered about 10 impressions, even though I know it is working correctly.

I also doubted it is bot traffic where you didn't get any subscribers or sign up into your form.

 

[MrT]

Definitely bot traffic. They didn't want it to appear as bot traffic so they sent it to different pages. They chose the wrong pages, lol, or was it just a one page site with your legal pages in the footer? Definitely worthless traffic.

If it were expired domains and redirected traffic like that via 7search or other platforms you probably would have had slightly better results.

 

[elcidofaguy]

Unless its paid ads on reputable known platforms then for sure no one can guarantee the number of visitors to your website and as such avoid any such claims as its all 100% bot traffic or paid views/clicks which wont convert....

Your best bet it to go with paid ads such as banner ads on related sites, forum ads as well as ad platforms such as FB and Adwords.... Note: avoid Adwords if it is an optin page as you'll be violating the info harvesting policy....

In addition you could try solo ads - but be careful that these are not fake traffic too... i.e. check out reviews/testimonials and begin with buying a small amount and if good go for a larger amount...

If its organic traffic you want then focus on SEO... Why not develop your own PBN with expired domains instead of falling for such con artists whom send fake traffic with claiming it is from expired domains...

In the end move on and learn from your mistakes.... Best of luck!