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.

Sorry Twitter - You Lose in Generating Web Hits

I like to treat the internet as one big test subject, and when you have a couple of blogs, you can do some fascinating experiments in internet metrics and crowd behaviour. The aim of almost every posted video, picture, blog entry and image is to go viral. The holy grail of this technology-driven world is page views and web hits. There are entire books, websites and courses dedicated to generating website traffic.

Once you put something up on the internet, you can either wait for the search engines to find you, hope that the What's New section profiles you or you can link advertise on other social media. But very few people know the most effective means to get hits.

I decided to have a mano a mano, a head to head to find out ...... (are you ready) ....

THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO GENERATE HITS WITH LINK POSTING

In one of my blogs, I posted this picture that I took on the shores of Loch Awe in Scotland. It is the Robert the Bruce Chapel in St. Conan's Kirk. When I looked at it, I said "Holy Rigor Mortis, Batman, this looks like you dead!". Sure enough, it looks like the grave of a dead Batman. I thought that this was a suitable subject to go viral.

(click for larger image)

So, posted competing links on Twitter and Reddit. I used the same title "Photo of Dead Batman" and the same tags including #DarkKnight, #Photo, #DeadBatman.

Twitter generated six hits that hour. Reddit generated 170 hits in the first hour.

Clearly we have a winner when it comes to generating hits by link posting on social media. And to think that I have been ignoring reddit.com.

(Disclaimer: I am in no way associated with Twitter or Reddit).