Building your Internet business can hard enough without falling victim to traffic thieves. No, I’m not talking about software that overrides your affiliate links with those of another, but the kind of thieves that take your money with lies or deception and don’t deliver what they promise or what they lead you to believe you will get: the so-called guaranteed traffic sites.

Lotto sites are an example of guaranteed traffic sites but they are not the culprits. What separates them from the thieves is that they are, at least from what I’ve seen, honest about what they do, that is, deliver undifferentiated, low grade traffic by arranging for your site to be a detour in their game — an obstacle in a player’s path where almost no one ever stops to look.

But they never promised you anything more.

Start pages work similarly but will, upon occasion, bring you an interested visitor.

So where are the thieves?

Among those who purport to sell you targeted traffic in the form of pup-unders, where your page loads under an opened page in a visitor’s browser.

The first such service I tried came well recommended by a longtime Internet marketing “expert.” This company promised to send “targeted” traffic at a very reasonable cost. It’s just too bad that it wasn’t what it was made to seem. NO ONE from among thousands of what were supposed to be “targeted” visitors bothered to download the free book that was eagerly being downloaded from my site for months.

Looking into this further, I could see why. The “targeted” traffic they were sending was mostly from China! Even if they could read English, these people were not valid prospects for my MLM or virtually any on-or-offline business in the free world. What the joker selling this service was doing was more than misleading. It was tantamount to fraud.

Some months later, another such company came to my attention. This one played-up the deceptive nature of the Chinese traffic ploy used by “competitors” and appeared to be an honest alternative that offered 100% unique, targeted, US visitors.

It looked good so a bought a 10,000 visitor test only to find that what they delivered was quite different from what I purchased. About 65% of their “US” traffic came from OUTSIDE THE US with most from Western Europe. With such dishonesty, I have my doubts that what traffic they did deliver was targeted to category, as if it even mattered, by then.

Companies such as these are a bane to anyone wanting to use the Internet to build a business and their dishonest tactics need to be exposed. I hope this has made you a bit more aware. As the old sergeant used to say, “Be careful out there.”

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Larry Stepanowicz is the creator of mLmGoneWild.com
and publisher of Winning At MLM. He offers a free seven
part course on professional network marketinging to new
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