Can someone explain what exactly means Incentivized traffic? And why some affiliate networks want you to have it and some don't?
Incentivized traffic means you have members / people coming to your site expecting to get paid or receive some sort of reward in exchange for them completing a survey, offer, etc.
That sounds dodgy. It means they filling something out not out of interest but for reward. Why would affiliate network want that?
Because some affiliate networks might be getting paid to find qualified people to reward for completing surveys ?
Visitors who have received some form of compensation for visiting a site. The danger of incentivized traffic is when 3rd-party promoters compensate people for visiting your site without disclosing that information to you. Incentivized traffic is widely regarded as of a much lower quality than unincentivized traffic. Incentivized visitors typically do only what is necessary to gain the incentive and nothing more. Incentives may come in the form of cash, points, or other means. While incentivized clicks/traffic is the most notable incentive-based action, other forms exist such as incentivized registrations.
This means you're polling me towards to your website by showing some $$ instead of I'm not interested on your website. So, I visit your website or do some form filling and get $$ and I runaway from your site.....that's all. Now let me tell what's you got from me...... My submitted data, one visitor, some bandwidth, increase traffic or affecting Alexa... These traffics are useless for those sites who want to sell their products, services etc. Real traffic will come to your website automatically without doing anything for those traffics to catch to your site. Google is here and if your site is really profitable for people .... Google will sent visitors to your site.
I was asking only because my application for Primary ads was rejected for lack of it. I still don't understand why they want this type of traffic. I remember that one of the affiliate networks had this type of traffic as prohibited in their TOS.