I have a product as a Clickbank publisher ( http://www.thedayoffdiet.com ) and I recently (over the last 3 or 4 days) I've been getting a ton of junk traffic sent by some new affiliate (who has never referred a sale.) Yesterday he sent about 10,000 unique visitors and didn't make a single sale. It looks to me like one of those junk traffic generating things (come on people, it's 2010 - I can't believe people are still being fooled by that crap.) Anyway... what can I do to stop this traffic from loading up my page? It's a waste of my bandwidth, I'm worried about my webhost shutting down my site. Also: to all affiliates: Please don't send junk traffic. It does not work. If you see some nonsense like "100,000 unique visitors for $29.95" run the other way. Fast. It's BS.
Trust me there's some really dumb people out there. They all have this idea in there head that there going to make a trillion dollars in 24 hours.
Just contact clickbank and let them know the ID and why you want to block them (cos theyre sending junk traffic / traffic from traffic exchanges etc) and they will block them for you. They are really responsive about this.
but yes, as you grow you will only get more and more of them. its impossible to do this for them all, but just collect IDs and see who is sending it and email clickbank every so often 10k is a lot, but you will get 10s of new people every month if your product takes off all sending 100s and a few 1000 total junk traffic.
re: silverpoint #1 - being a vendor doesn't mean you're rich. #2 - my hosting is fine, i just don't want to have 1000s of useless page views that may cause me issues (they haven't yet as far as I know.) i'd be fine with the 1000s of pages views if it was decent quality traffic (in fact I'd be overjoyed) but this is garbage. --- I contacted clickbank about this aff sending me all of this garbage traffic and they haven't got back to me yet. I was hoping there would be some other solution, like some way of redirecting traffic away from my site that comes from a certain location (all of this garbage traffic originates from the same url.) --- this is the company this aff bought this garbage traffic from: http://guaranteed-websitetraffic.com/ argh. I made the same mistake when I first got started (over 5 years ago) ... so I have compassion... but it's still really annoying. Please to anyone reading this: NEVER BUY "TRAFFIC" --- it's BS.
Im no coder but im sure there's a way to say in your header IF user comes from 'http://examplesite.com' then redirect to 'http://www.othersite.com' A lot of people use PTC sites to advertise so what you could do is find an affiliate program for a PTC site and redirect them there