Traffic Faking Update

This is an update on traffic faking.  If you have a blog or a website, you will see an inordinate amount of hits from weird and not-so-weird domains.  They are faking traffic to your website.  When you click out of curiosity, you are bombarded by spam, or even worse, malware.

I created a La Brea Tarpit blog -- a blog with lots of keywords.  It has had no hits at all from legitimate users, but in four days, it had the following hits from the traffic faking domains:

http://www.vampirestat.com 30 hits
http://www.vampirestat.com/ 22 hits
http://thetaoofbadass.pw 18 hits
http://blogsrating.pw/ 11 hits
http://awsurveys.com 10 hits
http://www.adsensewatchdog.com 4 hits
http://google.adsensewatchdog.com 2 hits
http://blogger-custom-domain.blogspot.com/ 1 hit
http://kmzackblogger.blogspot.com 1 hit

I contacted that .pw registrar and they weren't interested in stopping their traffic faking domains, so my guess is that they are scumbag traffic faker enablers as well.

The internet is very Darwinian.  Traffic faking must work to generate hits, otherwise they wouldn't do it.  If you are a webmaster or blog owner and you see one of these domains, don't click on it.  Let's starve them out of web traffic.

Traffic Faking Saga continues

Well the traffic faking saga continues.  In a previous post, I outlined how I contacted the .PW abuse desk for the PW registrar where the internet rectums and societal scourges called blogsrating.pw were hosted.

The registrar asked me for proof, and I sent back this reply:

Hello:

For supporting evidence of the spammer in your midst, please google blogsrating.pw and you will find the internet is full of complaints of these spammers/traffic fakers.  They operate under a few different domains but the blogsrating.pw is front and center.

It is highly annoying to me, but highly damaging to your good name as a registrar.  I would seriously suggest that you perform a simply google of that domain for all of the evidence that you need.

And they sent back this reply and closed the ticket:

Thank you for contacting us.

However, in order to proceed with suspension of the domain name, we require corresponding evidence supporting the same. 

Once, we receive the necessary evidence, we shall definitely take strict action against the domain name.

Best regards,
Abuse Mitigation Team
.PW Registry



Ticket Details

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Ticket ID: ZTV-616-97794
Status: Closed

So in essence, they are a bunch of ticket-closers who have no interest in doing simple investigative work of their own.  It is my job to police the internet according to them.

If the assholes at blogsrating.pw are polluting your blog, you too can contact the abuse desk and have them do nothing as well.

Here are the frustration particulars:   .PW Abuse Desk <abuse@registry.pw>


 In the meantime, the dickless wonders have put 32 fake hits on this blog in the past few minutes.  Here are the offenders:

http://r-e-f-e-r-e-r.com   - 12 hits

http://t.co/MaAptuGFVu  - 12 hits

http://www.vampirestat.com  - 8 hits

Reporting Abuse for Traffic Faking

In a previous post, I told you that I was sick of the scum bags (or is it scumbags) doing Black Hat SEO  traffic faking on my blogs.  I did report blogsrating.pw to the .PW registrar and this was the response that I got:

Hello,

Thank you for contacting us.

If you believe that the domain name "Blogsrating.pw" is involved in fraudulent activities, then we request you to provide us with evidence supporting the same.

You may provide the necessary evidence to us or could directly provide the same to the Registrar of the domain name.

Feel free to contact us, in case of further queries.

Regards,
Abuse Mitigation Team
.PW Registry


So you see, it is up to me to police the internet.  I may do a write-up and send it back, but right now I haven't got time.

But I do have time to add some more scum bag domain names to the traffic fakers list:

vampirestat.com
adsensewatchdog.com
kmzackblogger.blogspot.com
r-e-f-e-r-e-r.com

The adsensewatchdog.com is using a Google trademark so I think that I will report that one.  I will let you know what happens.

Really Getting Tired of these Traffic Faking Domains

I am really getting tired of traffic faking domains.  These are domains that fake traffic hits to a web site.  They know that webmasters look at the web analytics, and when they see a whole pile of hits from a website, they are curious as to why that website is sending traffic their way.  So they check it out, and it ends up being a spam site that wants to sell you drugs, or weight loss programs.  They are a blight on the web community.  They practice Black Hat SEO.

Two of the worst domains that are traffic faking my blogs are:

blogsrating.pw
flf-course.com

These internet rectums are jerks of the worst kind.  The .pw domain name stands for professional web, and I sent an email to PW registry because traffic faking seems to violate their terms of service.  We shall see if the pw registry takes itself seriously and curbs those traffic fakers.  If not, then I wouldn't suggest patronizing the pw registrars because your website will be considered in the same group as spammers and traffic fakers.

Scumbag Trailer Trash Human Garbage Webmasters ~ Wall of Shame

I'm getting tired of human garbage, scumbag webmasters who spam and traffic fake. These people are the lowest classes of internet users, who think that SEO involves being a rectal sphincter on other peoples' sites. They have absolutely no skills at real SEO, and no content worthy of real traffic so they resort to shady, dubious and questionable tactics to try to pathetically generate traffic to their websites. These are cretins of the lowest kind.

This week's wall of shame in include the following websites:

• FILMHILL
• STUMBLEDUPON (obviously parking on the the legitimate website StumbleUpon)
• BROADWAYPINK

These ghetto webmasters don't belong on the internet.

We now take you back to regularly scheduled programming of how to be a zen coder. Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmm

Website Traffic Faking

There is a new trend in town, and its traffic faking. It happens two ways. The first traffic-faking scenario is when a website has Google Adsense on it, and Google pays per page impressions. The pay for click is pretty good, but Google has ways of detecting fraudulent clicks. However they pay a penny or two for a certain number of page views, and this is what traffic faking targets. It is relatively easy to spoof unique page views, but a heck of a lot harder to spoof the controls that Google puts in for fraudulent clicks. So this type of traffic-faking hits as many times per hour as programmed, and the pennies add up for page views.

The other type of traffic faker is aimed at people who check their web analytics. For example, I have a blog based on philosophy, and I noticed that I was getting referrals from an ad-laden website peddling tooth-whitening products. It appeared that they had a referring link to my blog. As it turns out, I went to the page, and there was no link. They generate traffic to their pages through sheer curiosity.

On another one of my blogs, a company selling colored toilet paper used a traffic faker. I usually go to their websites, and hit the contact button, and used terms related to lower anatomy and sphincter muscles, and tell them forcefully to stop traffic faking. I don't know if my scatological references really work, but it makes me feel better.

One would think that the smart people at Google would work out a traffic faking filter. I think that I will go and ask them to do so. I will let you know what they say.