[EDU] Reasons you might get banned from ad networks. TE & Paid clicks

[mexicantarget]

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:

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;
"~hitleap.com"			1;
"~traffic-exchange"			1;
"~freebitcoin-traffic.com"		1;
"~fuseurl.com/2424"			1;
"~ajoyaap.webs.com"			1;
"~meerkatpublishing.com"			1;
"~estrenoszz.blogspot"			1;
"~musik4kh.blogspot"			1;
"~blankrefer.com"			1;
"~linkcollider.com"			1;
"~twistrix.com"			1;
"~surf4web.com"			1;
"~kronox123.over-blog"			1;
"~glenpoetra.blogspot"			1;
"~guipsautosurf"			1;
"~websurf.ru"			1;
"~freelancesurf.net"			1;
"~krunox123.over-blog"			1;
"~forimpressions.over-blog"			1;
"~nols-o-surf.fr"			1;
"~visiohits.eu"			1;
"~auto-visiteurs.biz.st"			1;
"~otohits.net"			1;
"~augmente-ton-trafic.fr"			1;
"~moneybitcoinautopilot.weebly"			1;
"~ngepetkungepetdapatduit.blogspot"			1;
"~hitleap204.weebly"			1;
"~mmobit.net"			1;
"~heavenlysurf.com"			1;
"~ieptc.com"			1;
"~newptcsites.co"			1;
"~justgoodtraffic.com"			1;
"~redmansurf.com"			1;
"~monster-surf.com"			1;
"~highcountrytraffic.com"			1;
"~autosurfenligne"			1;
"~ad7.biz"			1;
"~adcumulo.com"			1;
"~feelingsurf.fr"			1;
"~boodaghi.ir"			1;
"~zubeedownlines.com"			1;
"~surfingoldschool.com"			1;
"~10khits.com"			1;
"~bloggerbitcoins.blogspot"		1;

bitvisitor.com

[toecutter]

Excellent post.

We're doing the same over SatoshiGalaxy.

Here's what we caught so far:

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

[mexicantarget]

Excellent post.

We're doing the same over SatoshiGalaxy.

Here's what we caught so far:

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?

[frogglenn]

I've had about 2000 visits wastes
trafficmonsoon.com

thanks for the list

[mexicantarget]

I've had about 2000 visits wastes
trafficmonsoon.com

thanks for the list

Sorry to hear that, and thanks for the contribution. It has been added to the OP.

[thekingajew]

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 

[frogglenn]

Does anyone know if the traffic from u24.co is good?

[mexicantarget]

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.

[frogglenn]

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

[FaucetRank.com]

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 

This could be something new idea .

[Matoking]

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;
"~hitleap.com"			1;
"~traffic-exchange"			1;
"~freebitcoin-traffic.com"		1;
"~fuseurl.com/2424"			1;
"~ajoyaap.webs.com"			1;
"~meerkatpublishing.com"			1;
"~estrenoszz.blogspot"			1;
"~musik4kh.blogspot"			1;
"~blankrefer.com"			1;
"~linkcollider.com"			1;
"~twistrix.com"			1;
"~surf4web.com"			1;
"~kronox123.over-blog"			1;
"~glenpoetra.blogspot"			1;
"~guipsautosurf"			1;
"~websurf.ru"			1;
"~freelancesurf.net"			1;
"~krunox123.over-blog"			1;
"~forimpressions.over-blog"			1;
"~nols-o-surf.fr"			1;
"~visiohits.eu"			1;
"~auto-visiteurs.biz.st"			1;
"~otohits.net"			1;
"~augmente-ton-trafic.fr"			1;
"~moneybitcoinautopilot.weebly"			1;
"~ngepetkungepetdapatduit.blogspot"			1;
"~hitleap204.weebly"			1;
"~mmobit.net"			1;
"~heavenlysurf.com"			1;
"~ieptc.com"			1;
"~newptcsites.co"			1;
"~justgoodtraffic.com"			1;
"~redmansurf.com"			1;
"~monster-surf.com"			1;
"~highcountrytraffic.com"			1;
"~autosurfenligne"			1;
"~ad7.biz"			1;
"~adcumulo.com"			1;
"~feelingsurf.fr"			1;
"~boodaghi.ir"			1;
"~zubeedownlines.com"			1;
"~surfingoldschool.com"			1;
"~10khits.com"			1;
"~bloggerbitcoins.blogspot"		1;

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 {
   include /etc/nginx/bots.map;
}

and then in your server block, add the following:

Code:

if ($bad_referer) {
   return 444;
}

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.

[pinoycash]

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.

[toecutter]

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

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.