Guess this is what buying broker traffic and tgp submit accounts does to your SE traffic
 

http://i.imgur.com/dZ7F8.jpg

Phew! Looks like it's coming back finally. Fucked up thing is that none of the broker or tgp traffic went to this actual site or even had anything to do with the site, it was all sent to little landing pages made in some folder. Only thing they had in common was that the analytics code is on both. Guess I need to buy a dummy domain to host landing pages on..

Lol no one gives a fuck.

Has nothing to do with buying traffic.

How so? The correlation looks pretty obvious to me.

Congrats on the traffic :)

Correlation does not equal causation necessarily

So nothing was touched on the main site the entire time, and the fact that the SE traffic to it was disrupted right around the same period I started playing with the shitty bought traffic is just a coincidence? Ok, could go either way I guess, but I think this makes sense somehow. I do agree Google is one mysterious motherfucker though..

Then it may have very well been your problem then. Keep the shit traffic away these days, especially when using analytics. :2 cents:

You mean buying traffic screwed your overall bounce rate on site?

Yeah no doubt. The only thing about it that is news to me is that I was just creating landing pages/files in some folder that had no connection or links or anything to do with the main site and Google for some reason decided to bunch it together with the sites overall stats just because it's on the same domain.

Overall bounce rate for the "domain" in analytics yes. I'm not sure how to explain clearly that the pages the shitty traffic went to had absolutely no connection to the main site which receives SE traffic, besides being on the same domain. My best guess is that Google looks at the overall bounce/time on site/etc for the domain and adjust SE traffic accordingly, OR all of it is just a coincidence which I doubt.

the root page/site is what, an seo few page wonder, a blog..?

whoops...i read your post wrong, thought you had said you gained SE traffic from buying traffic lol, well glad to hear your traffic is coming back, I hate when Google decides they want to fuck over a site

The main site has thousands of pages and has been alive for years and getting steady SE traffic. The pages that were sent shitty bought traffic were simply small landing pages I made temporarily to send traffic to, they could have been put on any domain it didn't really matter.

As far as I understadn "time on site" is more "time on domain", so having shitty landing pages bombarded with traffic is one sure way of lowering your own overall stats.

tweeted him this thread. see if he responds. https://twitter.com/#!/mattcutts

Yep, seems that way. :disgust

I figured Google could tell a site and it's pages apart from some bullshit .html files used for something else. But I guess not. Or maybe it's the fact that I put the same analytics code on them.. lol. Who the hell knows.

seriously how could you not know this

it the reason why tube sites get all the top ranking
it the reason why mainstream sales pages have gone from long sales letters to videos

That's what using GA will do to your traffic.

No one likes a snitch.

on end you won :D if it's because of buying traffic, your SEO traffic is sky rocketing :)

It's one of reason,but not only.Tube sites mainly ranks first because they have shitload of backlinks.

just buying backlinks is no longer as valuable as it once was.

if you understood the characteristics which defined why t,hey got the ranking they do you wold not consider piracy a problem.

need some triagra looks limp

I wonder if I remove the analytics code from pages with a high bounce, low time on site, etc. that it will trick Google into sending more traffic?

It's still key thing to gain rankings.

i still have doubts if those are real human traffic or just hitbots

I wasted a few hundred bucks last week buying the most premium traffic from some of the most recommended places here.

I was told it was going to be a waste of money but thought the best way to know for sure is to try it. Well damn looks like it was true.

Hey shit for brains, there's a serious fucking discussion going on here.

This is no place for your loony bin whacked out ramblings.

Get the fuck out of here :321GFY

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