I am having tons of trouble generating good traffic for my site. I have done most of the things discussed on this board (free stuff that is) and have failed to generate traffic. I was wondering if generating fake traffic could help bump up my rating with Google and in turn drive real traffic to my site. Is this however against adsence TOS? Are traffic exchanges worth it? Should I consider paying for advertising with things like adwords? Thank you in advance for you help.
It is against the TOS. No I would not bother because it's not targetted traffic anyways. Write good unqiue content that people want to read and come back to you site. Focus on on page and off page seo traffic. Target long tail keywords. Thats the best way I have found to generate traffic to my sites.
What you are suggesting will definitely get you banned. It can take a long time to build momentum and traffic on a new site. Don't risk losing your Adsense status because you won't get it back! Cheers,