The Great "Traffic Buying" Scam, Aka Autosurfing

If you search for "buy web site traffic", "increase web site traffic" or such, you will find yourself buried under proposals of instant delivery of thousands of visitors. True, when using the service, at the end of the day, your website hit counter will show a massive increase in hits. Speaking of traffic quantity, everything goes well.

But who are these people suddenly showing such interest in your website?

How can someone find them and make them look onto your website for a few dollars? Nobody. There isn't a way of hunting down your customers, bringing them down to your site and make the buy. If someone could do that, he would probably own the Internet.

The artificial way of web site traffic increase is often based on simple web site rotation.

Thousands of people run scripts on their computers, which load other people's websites. When everyone loads everyone else's site, they all get hits. They wake up in the morning, turn on their PCs, load the scripts, and let pages rotate and reload all day. When they return in the evening, they all have loads of hits. If everyone gets 9 hits to his website for every 10 views of other webs, there is one hit remaining. One, maybe two hits for every 10 web site reloads remaining. For every person. Now that is quite a capacity, isn't it? So what do we do with it? Yes. Monetize it. Sell the surplus visits to webmasters looking for traffic.

Now, is that the kind of traffic you are looking for?

Are you willing to buy the fact, that your website gets loaded on thousands of computers, where the the users just don't care? Or are not even sitting by the computer?

Proof: Take some time to analyze the traffic you have bought. IS there a sign of real humans clicking through your website? Or is it just the page you have submitted to receive traffic, that gets the hits? If so, you have wasted your money by buying hit from an autosurf system.

Martin Korvas is a webdesigner and internet marketing specialist for http://www.niterane.com