A month ago Jonathan Leger post an article about “Avoiding the snare of trash traffic”, and i was fascinated by it that i did my own testing. It’s true that you could get thousand or even millons visitor to your site. But the question is, is it worth it. With just 45 bucks or less you can get your site swarm with visitor. How this is done, literaly the so called “Traffic Broker” will line up all the links that you submit to them into a system called “Autosurf”.

What will happened then is the visitor will get commission by just visiting you site with a certain amount duration of time, (usually 8 second). Apparently, this is useless to us marketers as the visitors are clearly no targeted. They’re only care about the commission. Since the system will auto rotate the sites, some might not even bother to see the website.

The above stat i did with 2 different traffic broker with 3 different sites of mine. Clearly you can see i’m getting hundreds of raw clicks, which means either it’s the same visitor visits my sites or there’s a bunch of auto surfers coming from the same IP network address.

As i said, the auto surf systems usually sets up to 8 second before continuing other sites, you can see the Level 1 stat are the only level that has number people stayed in my site, even so there’s about 68.3% my visitor stayed for 8 second, i’ve lost my other 29.7%. Hmm, there’s 5% on Level 2 and 3, probably one of the visitor got his pc hung up or maybe he’s really interested, but which ever is it, i’m still not getting any sales (Yes, these 3 site are sale page, selling products)

As a conclusion, i think these so called cheap traffic are not worth it. Unless if you try to test to proof something or simply just want to impress people that you’re getting hits to your sites.