Guaranteed hits services

Once again the brain is suffering from too much time in the sun

On ebay (you just know the mention of that word will bring members on here to put their face in the hands and shake their heads at what might follow) you get sellers advertising x amount of guaranteed hits for $x amount.

Are these schemes ethical with the search engines

Are they legit if people turn up from them and click on your adsence adverts

Or do you face the full wrath of Google and end up in the bin

One example item number 300247313038 for reference

There's also a guy on digital point doing something similar to the above. His by the sounds of it tend to be 1 second hits generated.

What are the advantages of creating those kind of hits and traffic?

absolutely nothing.

all you're paying for is for them to load your page, which costs you bandwidth.

useless.

So there's no black hat technique being used of fooling the search engines. Just people paying for a lot of pointless hits

You mentioned the wrath of Google.
Inside AdSense: Defining invalid clicks and click fraud
Worth scrolling down to where it says:

The same principles above apply to ad impressions and conversions as well. Some sources of invalid impressions include, but are not limited to:

Hope that helps.

Thanks for that Stewart

So the assumption now is, not only are they paying for pointless clicks, but also risking loosing their adsence full stop.

Apart from looking like they have more traffic than they actually have, its pointless or is there another google algorithm being played with. On another forum a guy was offering a similar service, which spread over 45 pages of people buying his service.

Clicks were either world wide, US, eur etc etc. With deals being offered on 10k and different ip's to most clicks.

There was mention of people upping their Alexia ranking.

I'm smelling a rat or some sort of google black hat fiddle going on, but being nieve or thick with a very limited understanding of SEO. Would more clicks increase your search placements

Alexa ranking means nothing. Webmaster websites are the only type of sites that do well on that and has no bearing on SEO.

The only benefit of buying 25,000 hits @ $14 would be it you are making over a solid 56 cents on CPM ads alone (hence why google are strict on it)... but would you risk it if there was a chance you could lose a large chunk of your income?

The penny drops now. Thanks for that. More hits you take, the more google pays out on clicks on adverts.

No wonder some were asking for their clicks to be spread out over several days so it did not show as payed mass hits.

Still rather stupid, risking all for that

i guess it'd be good if you dont use adsense or are simply trying to drive up traffic to your site to sell it or whatever.


at any rate its still pretty pointless and useless imo

I have had the Spanish government drive up hits for free
They just killed off a TV broadcasting service. About 300k people now with no British TV and my hits have gone up rather well, due to being in the top ten on most google searches relating to the company affected

Originally Posted by Lee G

I have had the Spanish government drive up hits for free
They just killed off a TV broadcasting service. About 300k people now with no British TV and my hits have gone up rather well, due to being in the top ten on most google searches relating to the company affected

Excellent.