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Title: [EDU] Reasons you might get banned from ad networks. TE & Paid clicks Post by: mexicantarget on January 27, 2016, 06:20:24 PM Hello, I launched www.FaucetGame.com 3 weeks ago, and I have been monitoring the site for fraudulent activity.
On rare occasions, you will be getting traffic spikes. Those traffic spikes come from traffic exchange sites or PTC sites. Users think most of the time that they will achieve something if they send traffic to their referral links. In some cases, this MIGHT work. In 90% cases, it's waste of their money, and the most important thing, they are harming your site's statistics/analytics. When you get lots of traffic with small visit/duration time, ad networks (Including AdSense!) still count those impressions. But those impressions are worthless for advertisers. It's waste of their own money. Ad networks have to protect their own interest, which means they need to protect advertiser's interests, because they're the ones who pay. What I have done, is started collecting those harmful PTC/Traffic sites, and block them through .htaccess Here's some sites I have blocked: Quote btcclicks.com socpublic.com 1000onlinemoney.ru seo-fast.ru wmrfast.com sharkpromotion.net profitcentr.com rtvrtvr.com easyhits4u.com This list will be updated ever 2-3 days, when I block a site. If you know other sites which interracted with your site, please post here, and I will add them. More sites from fellow faucet owners: 10khits.com traffic2cash.xyz contextualyield.com easyhits4u.com c.нoвым.гoдoм.pф build-a-better-business.2your.site how.to.travel.and.make.money.with.maps.ilikevitaly.com happy.new.yeartwit.com I've had about 2000 visits wastes trafficmonsoon.com trafficmonsoon.com Code: default 0; bitvisitor.com Title: Re: [EDU] Reasons you might get banned from ad networks. TE & Paid clicks Post by: toecutter on January 28, 2016, 02:37:41 AM Excellent post.
We're doing the same over SatoshiGalaxy. Here's what we caught so far: Quote 10khits.com traffic2cash.xyz contextualyield.com easyhits4u.com c.нoвым.гoдoм.pф build-a-better-business.2your.site how.to.travel.and.make.money.with.maps.ilikevitaly.com happy.new.yeartwit.com Title: Re: [EDU] Reasons you might get banned from ad networks. TE & Paid clicks Post by: mexicantarget on January 28, 2016, 03:32:22 AM Excellent post. We're doing the same over SatoshiGalaxy. Here's what we caught so far: Quote 10khits.com traffic2cash.xyz contextualyield.com easyhits4u.com c.нoвым.гoдoм.pф build-a-better-business.2your.site how.to.travel.and.make.money.with.maps.ilikevitaly.com happy.new.yeartwit.com Awesome, thanks for the contribution, adding your list in OP! PS: I've seen that link too, not sure if it's dangerous though? Title: Re: [EDU] Reasons you might get banned from ad networks. TE & Paid clicks Post by: frogglenn on January 28, 2016, 03:39:25 AM I've had about 2000 visits wastes
trafficmonsoon.com thanks for the list Title: Re: [EDU] Reasons you might get banned from ad networks. TE & Paid clicks Post by: mexicantarget on January 28, 2016, 03:40:41 AM I've had about 2000 visits wastes Sorry to hear that, and thanks for the contribution. It has been added to the OP.trafficmonsoon.com thanks for the list Title: Re: [EDU] Reasons you might get banned from ad networks. TE & Paid clicks Post by: thekingajew on January 28, 2016, 04:06:10 AM I think this can also have a negative impact on your website! Having traffic come from all different sources is a good thing, especially for ranking. Most CPC ad networks are fine with this, if you are depending on adsense then i guess you could create a way around this.
Not sure how but you could do something simple like (text example) $badwebsites = $blockedlist; if($badwebsites) { //Hide adsense & display something else } else { //Display adsense } Not sure on how you would do this since adsense uses script tags. Hope this helps ;D Title: Re: [EDU] Reasons you might get banned from ad networks. TE & Paid clicks Post by: frogglenn on January 28, 2016, 07:40:14 AM Does anyone know if the traffic from u24.co is good?
Title: Re: [EDU] Reasons you might get banned from ad networks. TE & Paid clicks Post by: mexicantarget on January 28, 2016, 08:58:48 AM Does anyone know if the traffic from u24.co is good? It says it's a URL Shortener service. It shouldn't harm you at all.People just mask their referral URL through that service. :) Title: Re: [EDU] Reasons you might get banned from ad networks. TE & Paid clicks Post by: frogglenn on January 28, 2016, 09:52:17 AM Does anyone know if the traffic from u24.co is good? It says it's a URL Shortener service. It shouldn't harm you at all.People just mask their referral URL through that service. :) oh, ok. Thanks :) Title: Re: [EDU] Reasons you might get banned from ad networks. TE & Paid clicks Post by: FaucetRank.com on January 28, 2016, 05:22:36 PM I think this can also have a negative impact on your website! Having traffic come from all different sources is a good thing, especially for ranking. Most CPC ad networks are fine with this, if you are depending on adsense then i guess you could create a way around this. Not sure how but you could do something simple like (text example) $badwebsites = $blockedlist; if($badwebsites) { //Hide adsense & display something else } else { //Display adsense } Not sure on how you would do this since adsense uses script tags. Hope this helps ;D This could be something new idea . Title: Re: [EDU] Reasons you might get banned from ad networks. TE & Paid clicks Post by: Matoking on January 28, 2016, 05:35:26 PM I've faced this same problem with BitBin, and I've already blocked quite a few sites that have bombarded me with worthless traffic, either by using traffic exchanges or creating sites with tons of hidden iFrames that load BitBin pages to rack up hits.
Here's the list I'm currently using for BitBin, which runs on nginx. Some of them don't have the top-level domain (eg. .com), as I've noticed especially blogspot sites may end with .fi, .com, etc. depending on your location. Code: default 0; As to how you can use it, just save it somewhere (eg. /etc/nginx/bots.map). Then, in your nginx configuration file (nginx.conf or your site-specific file in conf.d), add the following block: Code: map $http_referer $bad_referer {and then in your server block, add the following: Code: if ($bad_referer) {If everything went correctly, nginx should now automatically drop any request that came from those URLs, as long as the site's URL appears in the Referer field. As for how you can find out where these illegitimate visits are coming from, you could use either Google Analytics or go through your web server's logs manually. Title: Re: [EDU] Reasons you might get banned from ad networks. TE & Paid clicks Post by: pinoycash on January 28, 2016, 05:38:51 PM But PTC and Traffic Exchange is a good way to get referrals for faucets. if you banned those sites. what are the other options of people to promote their referral link.
Title: Re: [EDU] Reasons you might get banned from ad networks. TE & Paid clicks Post by: toecutter on January 29, 2016, 06:17:27 AM how.to.travel.and.make.money.with.maps.ilikevitaly.com PS: I've seen that link too, not sure if it's dangerous though? It's definitely a shady site and the fact you and I both see it in the logs is giving me even more reason to block it. As always, "don't trust random X from the Internet" policy should apply, so use your own judgment :) BTW, another one just popped in Quote bitvisitor.com Thanks everyone for providing their lists, and thanks OP for updating the OP, this could become invaluable. But PTC and Traffic Exchange is a good way to get referrals for faucets. if you banned those sites. what are the other options of people to promote their referral link. Thematically-related forums, private IM conversations with actual friends, blog posts, social networks..? The web is made of links. |