Dangers Of Using Traffic Generators To Increase Site Traffic!

Yes traffic generating websites, such as TrafficSwarm, TrafficG & EasyHits4U, do indeed increase the traffic to your site & in most cases they do it completely free of charge! With minimal effort on your part, it is quite possible to have hundreds, if not a thousand+ visitors hit your site per day.  Wow great eh.? Ahm well actually no, it is not great so just kill the motor dude & listen up.

What is involved with getting traffic from these sites, is simply a 2:1 or 1:1 ratio depending on which site you use, you visit other sites & in return they visit your site. So what’s wrong with that I hear you mutter..? Well having used the 3 sites mentioned above, I know that each of them requires you to stay on a page you are visiting for 20 seconds & so anyone that uses these sites and also clicks on your link, would also be required to stay for 20 seconds.

Google Is All Seeing & All Knowing

If your site is indexed & listed with Google then you may rest assured that Google is fully aware of how much traffic hits your site, what pages they view & for how long they stay. Therefore the problem with traffic generators lies in the fact that the traffic they send you, arrives on your home page & there is no requirement for them to do anything else. So they simply sit and wait for the 20 seconds to tick by & then they disappear and move on to the next link they need to visit ! Of course any smart Alec would have 3 tabs open on their browser & would be using 3 traffic generators all at the same time. This method means that by the time you have loaded a page in tab 3, tab 1 is ready to be loaded with the next site. This basically means that you access 3 sites every 20 seconds instead of just the one!

Now I know your probably thinking this sounds great & I suppose in the short term it is great to get all these visitors hitting your web site or blog, but the price you eventually pay in excessive bounce rate, makes this sudden burst of untargetted traffic not only useless, but a downright disaster!

The above image clearly shows the effect of using these free traffic generators, yes they talk a good story & yes it all sounds great & yes it does do exactly what it says on the tin, but nobody ever mentions the cost & this is where the problem lies. I have always known that Google frowns upon traffic generators but as I have stated elswhere on this site, I intend using My Blog Review as a Guinea pig or test case in order to test out & prove different theories.

I think we can all agree on the outcome of this test..? As can clearly be seen above, my bounce rate is through the roof & I now have a lot of hard work in trying to rectify this problem, so my advice to you is this;

1. Google does not favour any site that tries to use short cuts, they also make it very clear that the use of link farms & traffic generators can bring penalties.

2. Google and many of the larger search engines do look at bounce rate, to them it is a measure of how interesting or useful a website is to the visitor, therefore it does not take a brain surgeon to realise that if your bounce rate hits the roof, your website or blog goes into free fall.

3. There is one surefire way to get the visitors you seek & that is quite simply to put in as much effort & hard work as you can & write interesting quality articles that your visitors would want to read. This is obviously not a short term strategy, it is what could be regarded as building a solid foundation for your site, because if the information you provide is of a high enough calibre, then you will also find your backlinks start to increase naturally. When you reach this point Google will see you as one of the good guys & you will find as each month passes your site will gain in strength, will gain more visitors & will continue to gain backlinks.

Steve Nickson | Create Your Badge