Some of my readers may remember that I did an experiment on driving traffic a while back, with a ppc company called Bux.to. You can read up on the company here, and see what came of the experiment here.
Although I got my money’s worth in a way, all the traffic came in the span of 2 minutes, and was without any interaction whatsoever, so I decided that I’d had my 2 minutes of fun. I’ve not been back there. I guess I could go and click some ads to get my money back, but I doubt that I will.
A few days later, I had a mail from Google Adsense. Their whatnotbot had detected activity on my site that was against their policies, and they wanted to make me aware of that fact. The activity was likely to have been paid for, and they just wanted to remind me of their rules, as well as point me to tools that would enable me to stop such activity, should it have been induced by a third party.
Woops!
I quite easily worked out the activity in question… It won’t happen again. Not because of the email from Adsense, but because the added traffic just wasn’t worthwhile.
Now, to the warning: If you’re relying on Adsense on your blog, don’t use sites like this to pay for traffic. I never thought of it (I don’t have the Adsense rules pasted above my screen), but it was detected very quickly. Sites like bux.to may well be good for driving traffic if your budget is such that it can be done on a regular/consistent basis, and you don’t use Adsense. (The traffic I got seemed very unlikely to click ads or even read blog entries. They stayed their allotted 30 seconds, and off they went to the next ad… Statistically though, if you get 1000s of visitors per day, some are bound to click or read something, I guess).
I won’t put Bux.to down altogether – you can earn some extra cash by clicking ads, and if you refer people, you can earn more. I won’t be paying for traffic again, though!
Here endeth the final post on this experiment…
Stumble it!
