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The Meaning of "Junk Traffic"

Posted by drjay1966 • 10/01/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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So, this morning, there was this spam thread by somebody advertising Traffic G--one of those deals that generates "guaranteed traffic to your site." Despite warnings, I thought I'd at least experiment, and messed around with scoring points by visiting countless cheesy advertising sites for a few hours.

And the results:

The good news: my highest one day traffic ever, with two hours left to go in the day!

The bad news: "average time on site," usually somewhere around two minutes, plummeted to FIVE FREAKIN' SECONDS and not one comment from anyone coming from that source.

Clearly, this is the very definition of "junk traffic" and not the best use of my blog-promotion time. At the same time, there is a part of me that wonders if maybe one or two of the hordes flitting through my site might have stuck around and could decide to come back....

Might there be diamonds even among the junk?

User Comments

10/01/08

DrowseyMonkey

I know what you mean. Besides, your posts are so intellectual I need more than 2 minutes to read and understand them

I found that etrecard gave me junk traffic for the most part, but I also found a few really great bloggers thru there so I'm glad I signed-up. But it did take up a lot of my time so now I just use it on my photo blog because even if it's a fast visit,there's no reading on that blog, so they may return, I dunno.

I think a small group of visitors is best, not sure why everyone's so obsessed with large numbers of visits. Quality over quantity I say.

And I say that as one of your quality visitors, HA!

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1. 10/01/08
  
  drjay1966
  
  "Intellectual"--god, guess I'll never be a Republican presidential candidate if people are talking about me like that....
10/01/08

Friday13

Five seconds? That probably beats the average time for my blog.

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10/01/08

MeaCulpa

I get that from this other site. Every time I see someone coming to my blog from there, I know that they just click and close the window....only to get their number of visits in for the day

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10/01/08

drjay1966

Update: now it's WAY my best day ever...and, hey, avg. time on site has risen to 18 seconds....wooooo hooooooooooo

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10/02/08

DrowseyMonkey

I just went to your site and specifically hung out for 2 minutes. Plus I clicked an ad so there's 20 cents just for you man.

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1. 10/02/08
  
  drjay1966
  
  Thanks. Next time I'm in Toronto, I'll give ya a quarter...consider that extra five cents a tip.....
2. 10/02/08
  
  LGramlich
  
  drjay; If it's an American quarter, you're probably coming up short on the .20, actually.
10/02/08

fated82

Even if there is diamond in junks, it will take forever to find them. I rather spend that time cultivating more quality visitors.

You need to know where the big fish are (in this case, where your visitors come from) and spend more time doing your promotion there.

Good luck!

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10/02/08

ModelElaine

I don't think traffic exchange sites can bring you anything meaningful. People visit because they have to. They are not interested in your site. Their goal is to click on as many URL's as they can to get credit. I would trade 1000 junk visitors to one who will read

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10/02/08

dosox

"Junk Traffic"

The whole world is writing... You will hardly find any readers... these days

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1. 10/02/08
  
  cranelegs
  
  and how! and that's not even the half of it.
  
  why there's the ... um ... the um ... there's the other half of it, which i'll have to get back to you on!
  
  anyway, what you said!
10/02/08

dosox

@cranelegs
Okay,
[.....and trying to earn online. .......so genuine. these days]

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