A study on purchasing traffic
So, I'd like to make a mini review of the current situation of purchasing traffic. First off, I'd like to say that it is not my intention to bash my traffic provider. If I had to say anything about them, I could just say that they've been nothing but extremely helpful.
A little on me, so you know where this is coming from. I'm a 23-year-old advertising student. Brand new to the adult industry, but I've been around the Internet for many years now. My business model (for now) is to run clean sites, without links or flashing banners all over the place to see how they convert. I have a brand new network of fake TGP sites and one blog, which includes a lot more text than pictures. The fake TGPs have no traffic from SE since they have practically no text (this is something that may change very soon if this doesn't work out), but the blog does get a little traffic from Google (around 200 a day). Keep in mind they're all new sites.
I spent the entire day yesterday watching closely the traffic results from three 1000-hit traffic purchases.
I'm going to focus specifically on the fake TGPs, as I have more detailed stats for them.
This is my current TGP website layout:
*The video thumbs should read "3 across, 3 down"
It fills up entirely a 1024x768 screen without any horizontal scroll.
My TGPs are niche-targeted, meaning that I have one specifically for teens, another only for big tits, etc.
I bought USD 50 worth of traffic from Traffic Holder yesterday and bought 1000 hits per order (total money actually spent is around USD 10). Obviously, they were targeted and high quality (US, DE, etc.) Also, I made sure that the TGP page had practically one sponsor working on them, so I could measure effectiveness. This could have been a mistake, but I'm going to test the other way around today or tomorrow.
The Big Tit TGP
The big tit TGP is using Nasty Dollars' Big Naturals in the first block of thumbs. In the video thumb block, it's using three low quality Big Naturals caps and six high quality Perfect Gonzo caps.
For this, I bought 1000 hits from the "big tit" niche at Traffic Holder. They took seven hours to deliver the entire 1000 hits, which is very good because it means that it actually is targeted traffic. Here are the stats I have for that domain:
The yellow highlight represents the traffic Traffic Holder sent in. As you can see from previous days, the numbers seem to be pretty accurate. [First number column are visits, second is pages, third is hits, fourth is bandwidth]
As you can see, it doesn't add up to 1000 hits, but there might be something that I am unaware of and I will be inquiring with TH as soon as they come online on ICQ.
Now, let's look at the sponsor's stats:
Finally, let's look at TGP Rotator's statistics:
I need to say at this point that I signed up to their program yesterday, just before purchasing the traffic. So those numbers are entirely thanks to Traffic Holder.
You can see that TGP Rotator's stats indicate that I sent 320 clicks to their FHGs, but I'm only accounted for 8? Sure, people can click two or three galleries at a time, which would probably count as one. But seriously, 8/320?
Perfect Gonzo, which has six thumbs in my current TGP build, reports that I sent 17 people to them, so even with that, the 8/320 puzzles me. Furthermore, my two top-clicked galleries are from Nasty Dollars, as seen below. Both were added yesterday for this test-run build:
The teen TGP
The majority of the build I used for this test-run was XXX Rewards material. There's two Raven Rileys and a couple of Ivana Fukalots too, but it's not significant considering that the vast majority is from Karups.
Here are the visit stats:
For this, I used Traffic Holder's low producing-high quality traffic. I was amazed to see that it took 8 minutes (yes, I timed it) to send me 200 hits. I used a 200 hit/hour cap, so I spent the first 8 minutes of the hour watching the numbers fly and then 52 minutes waiting for it to start again. This is obviously bad and I can see now why they call it low-producing.
Let's look at XXX Rewards stats:
Again, let's compare with the TGP Rotator generated stats:
I need to say that the hits that I sent, according to TGP Rotator, to XXX Rewards resulting from the Traffic Holder purchase were less, since I've been using them for about a week now and had very little traffic sent.
Conclusions?
Well, to begin with, I'm very puzzled regarding the hits that TGP Rotator says I sent and the hits that the sponsors say they're getting. My next sentence has little or no accuracy, but it's a question I must ask myself: is Traffic Holder sending bad traffic or am I not getting accounted for everything from the sponsors?
TGP Rotator shows the clicks, and I have the visitor stats from Awstats. Furthermore, I also have Google Analytics stats for the teen TGP to back Traffic Holder up:
They delivered just what I asked for: low producing-high quality traffic, but they fall short on the 1000 hits I purchased. Again, there could be something I'm overlooking, so I'm in no position to start pointing fingers with false accusations.
So what's the deal? How come the sponsors are not crediting me for the visits I'm sending them?
I decided to run this test after seeing that Bang Bros did the same thing when I compared the TGP Rotator stats to their visitor stats. I'm not even talking about sales. I'm focusing on the sent-traffic stats.
Also, I am aware that my sample is small (1K per site). However, something is wrong here and I don't know what it is.
What are everyone's thoughts? I'd like to know if I'm fucking up somewhere or if this reasoning is accurate.
A little on me, so you know where this is coming from. I'm a 23-year-old advertising student. Brand new to the adult industry, but I've been around the Internet for many years now. My business model (for now) is to run clean sites, without links or flashing banners all over the place to see how they convert. I have a brand new network of fake TGP sites and one blog, which includes a lot more text than pictures. The fake TGPs have no traffic from SE since they have practically no text (this is something that may change very soon if this doesn't work out), but the blog does get a little traffic from Google (around 200 a day). Keep in mind they're all new sites.
I spent the entire day yesterday watching closely the traffic results from three 1000-hit traffic purchases.
I'm going to focus specifically on the fake TGPs, as I have more detailed stats for them.
This is my current TGP website layout:
*The video thumbs should read "3 across, 3 down"
It fills up entirely a 1024x768 screen without any horizontal scroll.
My TGPs are niche-targeted, meaning that I have one specifically for teens, another only for big tits, etc.
I bought USD 50 worth of traffic from Traffic Holder yesterday and bought 1000 hits per order (total money actually spent is around USD 10). Obviously, they were targeted and high quality (US, DE, etc.) Also, I made sure that the TGP page had practically one sponsor working on them, so I could measure effectiveness. This could have been a mistake, but I'm going to test the other way around today or tomorrow.
The Big Tit TGP
The big tit TGP is using Nasty Dollars' Big Naturals in the first block of thumbs. In the video thumb block, it's using three low quality Big Naturals caps and six high quality Perfect Gonzo caps.
For this, I bought 1000 hits from the "big tit" niche at Traffic Holder. They took seven hours to deliver the entire 1000 hits, which is very good because it means that it actually is targeted traffic. Here are the stats I have for that domain:
The yellow highlight represents the traffic Traffic Holder sent in. As you can see from previous days, the numbers seem to be pretty accurate. [First number column are visits, second is pages, third is hits, fourth is bandwidth]
As you can see, it doesn't add up to 1000 hits, but there might be something that I am unaware of and I will be inquiring with TH as soon as they come online on ICQ.
Now, let's look at the sponsor's stats:
Finally, let's look at TGP Rotator's statistics:
I need to say at this point that I signed up to their program yesterday, just before purchasing the traffic. So those numbers are entirely thanks to Traffic Holder.
You can see that TGP Rotator's stats indicate that I sent 320 clicks to their FHGs, but I'm only accounted for 8? Sure, people can click two or three galleries at a time, which would probably count as one. But seriously, 8/320?
Perfect Gonzo, which has six thumbs in my current TGP build, reports that I sent 17 people to them, so even with that, the 8/320 puzzles me. Furthermore, my two top-clicked galleries are from Nasty Dollars, as seen below. Both were added yesterday for this test-run build:
The teen TGP
The majority of the build I used for this test-run was XXX Rewards material. There's two Raven Rileys and a couple of Ivana Fukalots too, but it's not significant considering that the vast majority is from Karups.
Here are the visit stats:
For this, I used Traffic Holder's low producing-high quality traffic. I was amazed to see that it took 8 minutes (yes, I timed it) to send me 200 hits. I used a 200 hit/hour cap, so I spent the first 8 minutes of the hour watching the numbers fly and then 52 minutes waiting for it to start again. This is obviously bad and I can see now why they call it low-producing.
Let's look at XXX Rewards stats:
Again, let's compare with the TGP Rotator generated stats:
I need to say that the hits that I sent, according to TGP Rotator, to XXX Rewards resulting from the Traffic Holder purchase were less, since I've been using them for about a week now and had very little traffic sent.
Conclusions?
Well, to begin with, I'm very puzzled regarding the hits that TGP Rotator says I sent and the hits that the sponsors say they're getting. My next sentence has little or no accuracy, but it's a question I must ask myself: is Traffic Holder sending bad traffic or am I not getting accounted for everything from the sponsors?
TGP Rotator shows the clicks, and I have the visitor stats from Awstats. Furthermore, I also have Google Analytics stats for the teen TGP to back Traffic Holder up:
They delivered just what I asked for: low producing-high quality traffic, but they fall short on the 1000 hits I purchased. Again, there could be something I'm overlooking, so I'm in no position to start pointing fingers with false accusations.
So what's the deal? How come the sponsors are not crediting me for the visits I'm sending them?
I decided to run this test after seeing that Bang Bros did the same thing when I compared the TGP Rotator stats to their visitor stats. I'm not even talking about sales. I'm focusing on the sent-traffic stats.
Also, I am aware that my sample is small (1K per site). However, something is wrong here and I don't know what it is.
What are everyone's thoughts? I'd like to know if I'm fucking up somewhere or if this reasoning is accurate.
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