Originally posted by NevDull
I bought 10k hits, most of which came from 404 traffic, largely from bigmommahosting.
Unfortunately, the traffic was crap. I looked a little into it...
bash-2.05$ grep bigmomma access_log.1 | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -1
1125 4.65.217.185
bash-2.05$
1125 hits from one IP? Hmm... let's look at it a little.
bash-2.05$ grep "4.65.217.185" access_log.1 | awk '{print $11}' | grep jpg | wc -l
817
bash-2.05$
817 of the referers for this one IP were jpgs redirecting to an HTML page?
No wonder it couldn't possibly convert.
They were thumbnails from Comus Thumbs...
bash-2.05$ grep "4.65.217.185" access_log.1 | awk '{print $11}' | grep jpg | head
"http://www.bigmommahosting.com/ct/thumbs/tn85.jpg"
"http://www.bigmommahosting.com/ct/thumbs/tn406.jpg"
"http://www.bigmommahosting.com/ct/thumbs/tn98.jpg"
"http://www.bigmommahosting.com/ct/thumbs/tn424.jpg"
"http://www.bigmommahosting.com/ct/thumbs/tn97.jpg"
"http://www.bigmommahosting.com/ct/thumbs/tn84.jpg"
"http://www.bigmommahosting.com/ct/thumbs/tn392.jpg"
"http://www.bigmommahosting.com/ct/thumbs/tn414.jpg"
"http://www.bigmommahosting.com/ct/thumbs/tn59.jpg"
"http://www.bigmommahosting.com/ct/thumbs/tn47.jpg"
bash-2.05$
Effectively, even if it were a surfer, these thumbs would presumably be called from an img src=
OK, so what fucknut keeps trying to pull up jpgs for this long?
4.65.217.185 - - [20/Mar/2004:19:03:30 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 35991 "http://www.bigmommahosting.com/ct/thumbs/tn85.jpg" "Mozilla/3.0 [en] (AWV2.20r)"
I can't find any reference for what kind of User-Agent that is, but it smells bad to me.
I'm simply writing it off as a purchase I shan't make again... but I was urged to post my experience here by someone who saw this thread, and listened to me rant while I waited out the deluge of shitty traffic.
I have been getting traffic from other brokers which has great TGP productivity, and I'll continue to buy from those places.
I didn't expect amazing conversion ratios, but I *did* expect traffic which would actually see the fucking page.
*sigh*
-Nev
I bought 10k hits, most of which came from 404 traffic, largely from bigmommahosting.
Unfortunately, the traffic was crap. I looked a little into it...
bash-2.05$ grep bigmomma access_log.1 | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -1
1125 4.65.217.185
bash-2.05$
1125 hits from one IP? Hmm... let's look at it a little.
bash-2.05$ grep "4.65.217.185" access_log.1 | awk '{print $11}' | grep jpg | wc -l
817
bash-2.05$
817 of the referers for this one IP were jpgs redirecting to an HTML page?
No wonder it couldn't possibly convert.
They were thumbnails from Comus Thumbs...
bash-2.05$ grep "4.65.217.185" access_log.1 | awk '{print $11}' | grep jpg | head
"http://www.bigmommahosting.com/ct/thumbs/tn85.jpg"
"http://www.bigmommahosting.com/ct/thumbs/tn406.jpg"
"http://www.bigmommahosting.com/ct/thumbs/tn98.jpg"
"http://www.bigmommahosting.com/ct/thumbs/tn424.jpg"
"http://www.bigmommahosting.com/ct/thumbs/tn97.jpg"
"http://www.bigmommahosting.com/ct/thumbs/tn84.jpg"
"http://www.bigmommahosting.com/ct/thumbs/tn392.jpg"
"http://www.bigmommahosting.com/ct/thumbs/tn414.jpg"
"http://www.bigmommahosting.com/ct/thumbs/tn59.jpg"
"http://www.bigmommahosting.com/ct/thumbs/tn47.jpg"
bash-2.05$
Effectively, even if it were a surfer, these thumbs would presumably be called from an img src=
OK, so what fucknut keeps trying to pull up jpgs for this long?
4.65.217.185 - - [20/Mar/2004:19:03:30 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 35991 "http://www.bigmommahosting.com/ct/thumbs/tn85.jpg" "Mozilla/3.0 [en] (AWV2.20r)"
I can't find any reference for what kind of User-Agent that is, but it smells bad to me.
I'm simply writing it off as a purchase I shan't make again... but I was urged to post my experience here by someone who saw this thread, and listened to me rant while I waited out the deluge of shitty traffic.
I have been getting traffic from other brokers which has great TGP productivity, and I'll continue to buy from those places.
I didn't expect amazing conversion ratios, but I *did* expect traffic which would actually see the fucking page.
*sigh*
-Nev
I bought 10k 404 traffic not too long ago and it only had about a 10% CTR. Not only that, but only 15% got credit on fpctraffics exit program.
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