I am interested in buying a domain off someone who says that he has a site that receives 400 hit a day and he is prepared to let me do a traffic test on the domain name. However, I am a relative newbie at this game and recently heard of companies offering people the option to buy traffic in whatever quantity they want......so whats to stop this person buying the traffic in advance, knowing that when I traffic test I will see the results I am looking for, and then once I have paid him for the domain....the "traffic" dries up...... Is there anyway I can analyse the traffic stats that would tell me if it comes from paid traffic companies?? Thanks for all responses
Get him to hotlink an image from another of your domains, then check where the referals are coming from would be one way
Also check the domain name ranking in google & other search engines. You should check how many pages are linking to the domain etc. Ask for a web log & have somebody analyze it.