This was posted on another webmaster forum from a guy named Godius (famous for building dumpalink.com and now runs slutload.com - this guy has a great deal of respect and integrity) Here is what he said:
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Default AVNADS Sending Fake Hits/Signups???
Ive been trying AVNADS on a few different websites, and i've chosen their Interstitials option to advertise.
They deliver a vast amount of hits in a very short time span, and their visitors seem to like my sign up pages a lot.
But what I discovered is that 90% of the signups do not actually use their accounts. They result in 0 user views per account.
Then I decided to build a CODE protection where people have to enter a certain code given on an image to prove they aren?t a computer signing up. The signups dropped with 90%, and all users who did sign up, also used their account.
I have had this on two different websites now... I personally think they have some kind of hitbot sending the hits.
Also Alexa didn?t show ANY changes when I received 75.000 extra hits per to my websites. Which is basically DOUBLE of what I have normally!
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edit: just wrote to avnads, and asked them to explain all this. Also said it was posted on a large webmaster forum. Ill let you guys know what they write back.
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