most traffic brokers today are selling bot traffic. 3, 4, 5 cents a click from a computer program. The crime is off the hook, with no Federal regulation and the FCC is in slo motion to bust these fucking thieves.
If you don't believe me, just use any service, and test the traffic yourself. You'll see repeat IP's and traffic coming in from the same cities over and over again. (all from certain groups of servers)
You are buying numbers on a screen, that 's all. Some might sprinkle in 10% real traffic to fool your tests.
And if you call them out on bot traffic, you will always get the same answer, they all say the exact same thing:
"Thank you for bringing this to our attention, we are working hard to remove bot traffic from our system. No system is perfect but we work hard everyday to find these online cheats and close them down."
They sing that fucking song like an anthem. It's their legal loophole to sell you bot traffic and get away with it. They play the old "We didn't know" card and "Thanks for bringing this to our attention."
Fuck these thieves in the ass. The are all mother fucking low life crooks because there is no regulation.
And I'm talking about major traffic brokers, not just the seedy here today gone tomorrow ones. They have this game down cold. They've been selling bot traffic for years and know every fucking angle.
Banners? LOL same shit. You think you are getting real banner clicks??? They send skim traffic to your banner so you think you are getting clicks, when you are not. If your banner gets 50 clicks a day, and costs you $ 100 a month (example) That means you are getting 1,500 clicks a month, for $ 100. Good deal? But the 1500 of skim traffic only costs $ 4. So your broker makes $ 96 and you get 1500 skim traffic hits, from people that didn't want to visit your site to begin with.
Now that porn is free, how do you think traffic brokers are making money? They make it by selling bot traffic and skim traffic disguised as real organic traffic. Staff? Offices? Multiple employees and sales people??? Selling advertisement for a product that is already free??? Get real. It's a huge scam.
I hope they all burn in hell. All fucking thieves. Every single last one of them.