Bitcoin Forum

I just learned of this "Hitleap" this morning and normally I wouldn't have paid it any attention at all, but I am starting my own website, bitcoin-knives.com and am curious if this is worth it for advertising? I do notice that they are a bunch of people selling their Hitleap accounts, so they must be some use for this product. If anybody has any info on this or recommendations, please post here or pm me. Thanks.

I have never used them or even heard about them before. I am also interested in people's experiences with it. That said, if this is only an exchange of traffic for websites that you visit I don't think you will get many hits. Perhaps paying a little bit for traffic on another service would be a better idea.

no, hitleap is not worth it. only artificial bot views.

You might want to look for manual traffic exchanges, or some cheap a-ads.com or even coinad.com hits.

Few months ago I have a personal experience with this site, I used this site to advertise my Site, From my Experience I recommend You DON'T USE THIS SITE TO ADVERTISE YOUR SITE. Its just a crap. They are providing Bot Viewers for only 6 second. And also there is not Much traffic on this site.

i tried to use it once but it takes a lot of time for me to make profits

In my opinion It's not worth it now. You can't earn money with bot views most of the paid to view websites don't pay for bot views.

You could spend hundreds or thousands on this type of thing and it still won't count for anything compared to a handful of real people taking a look. If you're going to throw money anywhere SEO makes more sense and will ultimately continue paying off.

Im not use Hitleap anymore. Formerly is worth and i can earn money from running Hitleap on my PC, but time goes by i cant earn anymore :-\ maybe the system changed.


~iki

I don't know about the past, but now I feel like theirs service is lacking, you will be earning peanuts with it really. And I recently read people's comment about Hitleap's premium service and frankly, there were no one who likes it. So long story short: hitleap is not worth it.

Well the general cencus is, it blows. Does anybody have any recommendations as to where I should try to get some ad space at? I placed a order today for a shipment of knives. What's the general publics opinion on where a good place to traffic site, www.bitcoin-knives.com Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Why not start off on a more organic basis? Tell r/bitcoin what you're up to. Put up some special offers on here. Dig out some knife fan forums and get posting.

Yea, i bought premium on hitleap and it's crap..

Hitleap isn't for advertising. It's to artificially inflate your view count. There is NO monetary benefit from it, and you WON'T get real visitors. And that's not what it's for.

Basically, you'll see users stay for x seconds (whatever it's set at) and a 100% bounce rate. If you use advertising networks on your site, you also risk being banned. Especially AdSense.

Hitleap isn't worth it at all. you need good hardwares to even run it, minimum 512mb and 2 core to make sure it works. hitleap just spams useless junk traffic to your websites. you can't earn money with it unless the paid to promote website allows it but even so, the pay is really small.

Hitleap isn't worth it its easly abusable bu bots who use proxies. Don't waste time and money on it, try different advertizing methods like adsense or facebook ads.

if you want to increse the alexa rank of the website then hoitleap can do the job but you can not make any revinue with it because its not orignal traffic no one needs it

Why not try out some other options already out there like adwords and traffic blasters, social media utilization and some traffic exchanges too which are proven, instead of going for this service which you are not even aware of?

It is just a traffic exchange site it may improve your alexa rank and traffic but not good if you are seeking real visitors

Most TEs give fake traffic to websites and when I used to advertise my blog, it used to barely receive 20 real hits but show 100 hits for my blog. Hitleap also gives fake traffic and it's not good for advertising.

Uh... you have no idea how Alexa works. Hitleap will absolutely NOT increase your Alexa rank.

Yeah Alexa Ranking Ranking Will Not Increase With Hitleap as all the Visiter are Fake and Coming from Boots.

Here is Alexa: http://www.alexa.com/

Alexa would have no way or little way to find out the legitimacy of your site's visitors if you hide the referrer and set random durations. I don't think it would be really worth it however since it isn't very efficient.

It has nothing to do with whether or not Alexa knows legitimacy... you don't know how Alexa works, do you? These visitors won't count. Legitimate or not, they. Will. Not. Count.

Hitleap is not worth it. It is nothing more than an "auto-surf" exchange with artificial bot-generated views. I paid for over 20,000 hitleap views and Google Analytics showed that 90% of the impressions were not unique.

Well the general concensus of the public is that it sucks. So why are so many people using it if it sucks so bad. What are the good aspects of using Hitleap?

Hitleap traffic will not give you any conversions/clicks. Ever.
Hitleap users don't even get to see the sites most of the time :)

its just for advertising. (people seeing your site and might want to visit it in withour going thru hitleap.)

it does drive your traffic rating up, increasing the ad serving, but not the CTR, for some it is worth it, you can go premium, it is pretty cheap and you can pay in bitcoin.

But what you would need is real exposure, getting potential customers, not worthless clicks, i would suggest a-ads for some cheap campaigns. Or if you really want to invest some, get with google adwords and drive traffic up. Project Wonderfull could work as well.

This is what Hitleap is about, basically. People who use it are getting paid CPM so they don't care about the CTR :)

In general i would advise web owners to stay away from traffic exchanges like HitLeap a bit of social engineering can do the job much better and for free !!!

If you have AdSense on your site, you could actually get your account banned...

its not even advertising coz most of the views are generated by bots. Those exchange view sites are worth nothing.

Wrong. PTP sites pays money for hits directed at their promotion links but do bear in mind that most of them only count half or even less than half of the actual hits delivered as most of them are not unique hits.

If you plan to make some money from your website by sales then Traffic Exchanges and HitLeap are a pure waste of money. Lowest quality traffic and nobody from there will buy any of your products.

You might be able to manipulate your page rankings if you direct a large amount of visitors to it, although such fake hits are most likely disregarded. You can make your Youtube video popular or something similar. Which may benefit you in some way. If the crowd sees a lot of views on your videos they might click it.

No Lexa do check the legitimacy of the visitor that are coming to your site. Say if you are getting tons of traffic in few hours from bots will the alexa ranking will bost up? No it will not bost up

I don't think this traffic would work for Youtube views.

Youtube have the ability detect fake views and ban your account especially if they are coming directly from the exchange as in referrer. most likely, YouTube needs the person to watch the entire video before the view is counted anyway so it won't be effective.

If you want to get higher alexa rank, or if you want to get fake vews and get a lot of visits, but its not worth at all, you cant earn money with fake views, its really hard, just start your website from beggining and get seo to get real views, from social networks, etc..

I don't know, I just checked and the view counter jumped by 1 the moment I loaded a video.

Yeah traffic works only for increasing youtube viewers. But its not worth it if you are not earning money from it. I think hitleap dont allow youtube links?

Holy crap. This thread has so much misinformation. It's clear most people here have never dealt with websites before. Let's try to clear some things up:

*Hitleap does allow YouTube links

*YouTube views WILL count. And you will get your account banned after an undetermined length of time. Congrats

*They are "good" if you are running CPM ads. And you won't get paid and/or will be permabanned from your network. Congrats

*They will NOT help your online site rankings at ALL. Zero. Not even a slight amount

*They WILL count for things like Analytics. And as soon as your advertiser asks to see the account log, you've lost any trust they might have had. Congrats

*ALL views are from bots. 100%. If you had 1500 views, 1500 were generated from bots. You will NOT get conversions. You will NOT gain readership. You will NOT get (insertwhatyou'regoingforhere). It flat out won't happen. Unless bots become sentient, in which case readership is the least of your worries

tl;dr: Hitleap will do NOTHING for you, other than give a false sense of "success" and get you banned/burn every bridge you have with advertisers.

All of that applies if you are a newbie. You can earn with CPM ads, raise SERP rankings, count them in analytics PROPERLY and without anything suspicious...
if you know what you're doing.

The CPM "problem" can be solved, as well as the analytics one. There are ways to help site rankings with this software - maybe you don't know about them.

And by...

...I meant exactly what you said.

tl;dr: Congrats - you've proven you're a newbie!

I think OP Should close this thread because its getting Crap and Spamy messages, No one Dont know How hitleap workin. They dont search any thing before posting.

You're NOT hiding where the ad views come from. Even using URL redirects, iframes and forced headers. Don't give people the wrong idea and get them banned.

You will NOT raise SERPS. In fact, you'll LOWER them.

You *CAN* make them show up with the proper URL you want in Analytics (using iframes, redirects, or forced headers). That has nothing to do with the issue.

I never said you could do that with AdSense or any other premium ad network. I just said that it can be done, and it's being done.

And regarding SERPs, I'm sorry but I'm not going to teach you the methods used to do that just to prove I'm right.

I've messed with these type of traffic inflators in the past. They are actual IPs but false views. Also I noticed a lot of malware coming with it.
The argument was that even though the views were fake, it increases your traffic and therefore improves SEO. Google is improving their fake traffic and click-fraud detection every day. They make millions (billions?) from their adsense advertisers, they work really hard to protect them, and thus that income. If they catch you fiddling with your view count they do what is called a "G-line" to you. This means, no matter what, you are shoved to the bottom of every search result that might include you. So in the long run, fake views only get you the opposite effect that you were going for.

Etsy, as widely derided as it is, has plenty of built in traffic, and you can ask to accept Bitcoin (shoppers have to PM you, but still....) There are a few other online marketplaces that you can run in conjunction to your own domain. There is also the "goods" section of the "marketplace" sub, right here on bitcointalk. built in btc friendly customers right there!

You would be smartest to study SEO techniques. You can make blog posts and social media posts that maximize your specific key words and lead the reader directly to your online store.  Look for websites and blogs related to what your selling, try and provide them quality original content, singing your own praises and directing buyers towards your site. I used to run a consumer advice website that was basically there to promote products and allow me to write whatever large purchases I made off my taxes.

I'd suggest google adsense, but I hate them plus I have never even once clicked on a adsense ad. I've asked around, and no one I have asked has ever clicked either. I honestly believe, despite google's best efforts, that 99% of all traffic from adsense is spurious. click-fraudsters and accidental hits. This is the biggest secret they keep from their clients!

Yeah people have been setting up a lot of servers to get views its only good for global ranking but local spots it won't do very well. Plus google is changing their algo on the 21st people should be more worried about if there site is responsive or not.

I'm currently working on a project for a client. I'd like to take the legit routes for SEO. Is there somewhere I can read about this new algo? I should be fine on the responsive side - I try the mobile-first approach. But if there are any other considerations I should be thinking about it would be good to know. As for traffic it seems like paying a little bit for an AdWords campaign is the best route?

Hitleap isn't worth it even if you sell your minutes. Just get legitimate viewers

Id just google it they made an announcement i do believe. so check there news outlet

Well, thanks for the heads up. I'm mostly reading about the mobile-friendliness, seems like that is what they are pushing the hardest on this release.

If you use their Pagespeed tool, it should also warn you about issues regarding your site when viewed from a mobile.

Hitleap is rubish .... do not pay your well earned money for bots...

I make use of cheap ad space on bigger faucet sites, like http://www.freebitco.in/ ....They reach a big audience daily on a massive userbase of 1,317,990 bitcoin users for only $0.12 per 1,000 banner impressions!

I had my banners made on Fiver for $5.

In this way, I am also helping to fund faucets to help other people. {Your target market is not to sell VERY expensive items, and for that reason, I would target this method}  ;)

Thanks. Actually realized I screwed up the project I am working on pretty badly... I was using Polymer which is a Google web components framework. Everything looking great. Then I saw their browser support: none. Only Chrome. Wish I knew about that sooner now I need to start the project from scratch.