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Old February 7th, 2007, 09:55 AM
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Not sure if this is the appropriate place to post this but i want everyone to be aware of the scammers out there who claim to send traffic to your website for the fraction of PPC cost. I bought 2500 click from revistors .com and guess what, all the clicks were script generated. All the click came 1 second apart. The visitors (or as i should say script generated clicks) came to my home page and didn't go to other pages. The total time spent by these visitors/clicks were 0 seconds and the clicks came from the same php page. All these led me to believe that these guys are running a script to generate fake visitors.
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You do get what you pay for. Sorry to hear of your experience.
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Old February 7th, 2007, 10:25 AM
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Well, everyone make mistakes and should learn from them. I got greedy and wanted to get quick traffic to my site. But i guess nothing comes easy in this world.

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well if thats true then you should demand your money back, and start reporting them to every place you can think of...
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Thanks for mentioning this mig35! That's a form of click fraud I hadn't heard of before; sadly I can't say I'm surprised by it. With the research I've done it seems like the folks who are trying to abuse search engine advertising keep getting more creative.
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Well, everyone make mistakes and should learn from them. I got greedy and wanted to get quick traffic to my site. But i guess nothing comes easy in this world.


Spot on Mig35, itz been said that Best things in life wont happen easily, and just like that,....Best things on the web wont come cheap
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