Traffic swarm - how effective

Discussion in 'Pay Per Click Advertising' started by autotick, Nov 13, 2008.

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    I’m contemplating to sign up as pro member of “Traffic swarm”. But before parting my hard earn money, I wish to find out from members here how effective is this traffic generating system.
     
    autotick, Nov 13, 2008 IP
  2. markowe

    markowe Well-Known Member

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    I have NEVER understood the point of TrafficSwarm. Maybe I am committing a grievous sin and someone will correct me, but I CANNOT see the point of creating traffic by enlisting lots of other webmasters desperate for traffic to visit your site. It must be the worst-converting traffic anywhere, almost totally pointless. Personally, I say "Don't waste your money" - better use PPC or something. But maybe someone can tell me otherwise...
     
    markowe, Nov 13, 2008 IP
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    jphilipson Peon

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    LOL, that's funny, and true.
     
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    I agree with the useless traffic idea.Who is actually going there to buy your product/service?
     
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    Chancey Well-Known Member

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    they are useless!
     
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  6. markowe

    markowe Well-Known Member

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    I guess it works best for selling SEO/make-money-off-the-net-type products, since there is an outside chance that some of those desperate webmasters will take the bait. So basically, unless your target group is webmasters then it really is a waste of time, and as for money, well try it out for free first and see if you get any results whatsoever before shelling out hard-earned cash.
     
    markowe, Nov 14, 2008 IP
  7. millionaire08

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    viral marketing are useless...

    No traffic, no targeted traffic I mean
     
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    javaongsan Well-Known Member

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    I got a few conversion once in a while from ts
     
    javaongsan, Nov 14, 2008 IP
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    lifeplayer Notable Member

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    I heard that they are generate quite number of traffic but unfortunately it is against the adsense TOS
     
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    I did sign up with traffic swarm and I am not happy about its effectiveness.
     
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    I have used traffic swarm before and it is pretty much useless.
     
    JDomain, Nov 14, 2008 IP
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    100% useless traffic. Focus your time and energy on targetted traffic
     
    Activeweb, Nov 14, 2008 IP
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    #13
    I completely agree with you.

    The logic seems to me to be exactly the same as trying to use a "safelist" to sell a product or service, when the only recipients of your sales email are people who are by definition people who are there because they're trying to sell something themselves. Absolutely pointless.
     
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    I'm really surprised TrafficSwarm hasn't changed their system after all these years. I think they'd do much better moving to a true PTC (Pay to Click) model.

    It's hard to believe their traffic ever converts, except for webmasters promoting web development or Internet Marketing related sites. All the people who sign up with sites outside the Web development/Internet Marketing related niches, are likely to eventually leave after they see how bad their conversion rates are. If TrafficSwarm was PTC, those webmasters would be getting targeted visitors instead of other webmasters who have no interest in dog training, horse breeding, knitting, or whatever niche they're in.
     
    BrandDan, Nov 20, 2008 IP
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    You want buyers not sellers.
     
    Li Weng, Nov 20, 2008 IP
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    i actually signed up with them about a year ago, but got my account deleted because they kept on having "auto-bots" cheat tests, and i kept on accidentally clicking on them (twice) heh. useless if you ask me
     
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    Autobots? Weren't they the ones who did battle to destroy the evil forces of the Decepticons? They were a darn sight more exciting from a web marketing point of view than Traffic Swarm, anyway...
     
    markowe, Nov 21, 2008 IP
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    Aside from free page views to your site, nothing. Since most members there just want surf and get credits for their own programs views. If you want to succeed with manual surfs you must have a good splash page.
     
    lancez, Nov 26, 2008 IP