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Old 03-18-2004, 12:11 AM  
rowan
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Australia
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Originally posted by MuleScrote


Allow me to join the club with my take on it....


Just last week I found a new trade in my stats that was sending in thousands of hits. Not only were the incoming uniques, but they were clicking like mad into my galleries and traffic trades. When I checked out this guys site, it was a popup hell and tried to install the XXXtoolbar several times. I can only image the relief a surfer feels when clicking into a clean tgp after being at a site like that. Needless to say, I'm not gonna send my visitors to such a trash site so I disabled the trade. Sites like this sign up for trades every couple of weeks and send traffic long after disabling the trade. With the extra traffic coming in, I am returning 545% to my trades on average right now. I'm sure it will eventually taper off, but I always average at least a 250% return to my trades.
I have had a similar experience with a site that I found to have a virus on it, although the productivity wasn't sky high. It's been over a week since I deleted the trade and he is still sending hits.

Has it occurred to you that someone who is cheating with a popup hell may also be feeding you fake hits? That would be my first assumption. I would be BLOCKING that traffic from even loading my site!
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