Does Google penalize PTC traffic?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by domitri, Feb 7, 2008.

  1. #1
    PTC is a great solution to get more traffic to our sites, but if Google finds out that you bought the traffic, it´ll penalize you?

    Does someone here already get penalized at adsense or search because of PTC traffic?
     
    domitri, Feb 7, 2008 IP
  2. Game Producer

    Game Producer Well-Known Member

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    What you mean by "PTC traffic" - paid to click or what?
     
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  3. domitri

    domitri Active Member

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    yes...pay to click traffic...there are some companies selling packages with guaranted traffic, but I want to know if buying this users, Google won´t penalize me...
     
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    clipod Peon

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    yes, you Google find that you are using PTC is a mode of getting traffic for your site, then surely penalises. I tried PTP once and at that time many advertising sites reported me that I have been using PTP and temporarily disable advertising in my website.I am sure that goggle will do the same.
     
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    I truly belive Google penalizes for numerous traffic methods, one test I have done is for example one site average 800 uniques a day for months, on that site, a blog, I installed the BlogRush image, that allows other blogs to send me traffic, and me them, etc etc...... within one week on installing this, my google traffic plummeted by half....... I waited 30 days, it stayed low, I removed the BlogRush, and the traffic from their system stopped immediately, but within one week, my Google traffic increased again to the ol 800 uniques a day average.

    I left the BlogRush system off for a month and my traffic stayed around 800 uniques a day for 30 days..... now on Feb 1, I again installed the BlogRush traffic system, now as of yesterday, roughly a week later, my google traffic has plummeted again by half.

    They must truly penalize for some traffic methods....... besides good ol search engine requests, etc.

    Anyone else ever believe this ? or is it still just coincidence ?
     
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  6. domitri

    domitri Active Member

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    thanks guys...i´ll try other ways to get traffic, ptc is now out of question!
     
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    Dreads Well-Known Member

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    ah blogrush is like fools gold to me..
    the system doesnt still seem to be useful anyhow

    also i had the same experience with blogrush and google but not as unlucky as yours..
     
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    you will be banned if google find that you are getting PTC traffic
     
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    Yeh... it probably hurts, and those kind of traffic is useless anyway, so you better try something else. :D
     
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    4,294 is my traffic stats from BlogRush for the past 7 days

    I seem to get quite a bit of traffic with them and my referrals, but then again it drops my google traffic - guess you have to go with one or the other, but I can't say BlogRush doesn't work, it does for me,,,,, as far as bringing traffic
     
    bluegill_catcher, Feb 8, 2008 IP