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Even at $0.01 a HIT, that's $200 for 20,000 views. I used a "traffic generation" service once (note once) and it seemed to operate through pop-unders/iframes o
by garethsprice 15y ago
Even at $0.01 a HIT, that's $200 for 20,000 views.
I used a "traffic generation" service once (note once) and it seemed to operate through pop-unders/iframes on various third-rate sites with high traffic volume (MP3 download sites, celebrity news, etc).
Bounce rate was close to 100% and conversion was 0, but it made the hit count shoot off the chart. Interestingly, a lot of the hits never registered on Google Analytics but showed up on the web server logs. They appeared to be legitimate traffic (different IPs, user agents, etc).
- Danieru 15y agoSupposing they were real users they would have had to disable javascript to not show up in google analytics. My guess is that instead it was a rented botnet. Essentially you payed to DDOS yourself.
- nl 15y agoIt's possible lots of people are quick at closing pop-up/under windows. I think I generally am quick enough to close a pop-up before the page has loaded, which sometimes/often would mean the Google Analytics script hasn't loaded (depending on how Analytics was setup - the new async loaded at the top of the page would probably have caught me, the older syncronous one at the end of the page would probably have missed me).
- instakill 15y agoMy cmd-w fingers are quick off the mark when they need to be.