I just used TrafficOut.com on my petitekittens.com site and I saw an increase of about a thousand hits a day. I was able to track the bounce rate using google analytics and what sites they were sending traffic from. I noticed that my bounce rate went way up to almost 80%. Before I used them I had a bounce rate of about 48%.
Now they claim that all the traffic is qualified and is only sent using clearly written links. I check one of the traffic sources (
http://retnuh.com/ ) and after a few refreshes I found my link. The link said "kittens". I'm not quite sure this is a clear link to a site about teen porn given that retnuh.com is not really a porn site. It looks like more of a badly designed blog that gets lots of hits. Also my avg. time on site went from 6.8 min. to 39 sec. which mean none of the people hitting my site wanted to see teen porn. I figure that they saw a link that said kittens and thought that they were going to see a site about kittens.
Has anyones else used these guys? I think it is kinda lame. I mean yes I did get more traffic but I don't think it was qualified traffic. I only paid $35 for 5K hits so it's not that bad. I probably won't use paid traffic after that though.
What do you guys think?
