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Comments on: The Perfect Traffic Storm? Or just more waves of spam? http://affiliatespam.com/2010/01/the-perfect-traffic-storm-or-just-more-waves-of-spam/ When your inbox just can't take any more sales pitches... Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:25:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Melani http://affiliatespam.com/2010/01/the-perfect-traffic-storm-or-just-more-waves-of-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-76 Melani Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:13:40 +0000 http://affiliatespam.com/?p=779#comment-76 Oh how amusing!! I JUST got the following email: <blockquote>Hi Melani, Have you seen this yet? => http://Fabian-Recommends.com/trafficmachine A mysterious 'Traffic Machine' has recently surfaced... Showing how you can generate over 54,000 visitors to your website at the 'flick' of the switch! The most SURPRISING part is... For a limited time only, you can get to try out this Traffic Machine for FREE! => http://Fabian-Recommends.com/trafficmachine I don't know this guy did it... but it works.</blockquote> Gee... that sales page looks MIGHTY familiar... /facepalm Oh how amusing!! I JUST got the following email:

Hi Melani,

Have you seen this yet?

=> http://Fabian-Recommends.com/trafficmachine

A mysterious ‘Traffic Machine’ has
recently surfaced…

Showing how you can generate over
54,000 visitors to your website
at the ‘flick’ of the switch!

The most SURPRISING part is…

For a limited time only, you can get to
try out this Traffic Machine for FREE!

=> http://Fabian-Recommends.com/trafficmachine

I don’t know this guy did it… but it
works.

Gee… that sales page looks MIGHTY familiar… /facepalm

]]> By: Melani http://affiliatespam.com/2010/01/the-perfect-traffic-storm-or-just-more-waves-of-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Melani Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:00:08 +0000 http://affiliatespam.com/?p=779#comment-55 Wow, that's a nice chunk of change in under 2 months... either a lot of people never saw Traffic Python and realised this is a copy of it, or they just don't care? Wow, that’s a nice chunk of change in under 2 months… either a lot of people never saw Traffic Python and realised this is a copy of it, or they just don’t care?

]]> By: Chels http://affiliatespam.com/2010/01/the-perfect-traffic-storm-or-just-more-waves-of-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-53 Chels Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:33:08 +0000 http://affiliatespam.com/?p=779#comment-53 Thank you for posting this review. All of your observations are spot-on. Todd chose profit over originality, integrity, branding, skill and loyalty for this project .. but.. it has paid off well for him. PTS has made him nearly $60,000 in less than 2 months. Footballers aren't the only ones exclaiming "I'm going to Disney World!" ... I doubt, though, that the PTS members will be making their travel plans any time soon... Thank you for posting this review. All of your observations are spot-on. Todd chose profit over originality, integrity, branding, skill and loyalty for this project .. but.. it has paid off well for him. PTS has made him nearly $60,000 in less than 2 months. Footballers aren’t the only ones exclaiming “I’m going to Disney World!” …
I doubt, though, that the PTS members will be making their travel plans any time soon…

]]> By: Melani http://affiliatespam.com/2010/01/the-perfect-traffic-storm-or-just-more-waves-of-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Melani Sun, 03 Jan 2010 09:50:18 +0000 http://affiliatespam.com/?p=779#comment-29 Oh wow, awesome Chuck!! Thanks for that! After I finished writing this post I kept investigating, and in doing so found another three sites that have a similar theme to their sales pages – not the same, but very close. I guess I now know why. Ok, so perhaps that doesn’t make it as bad now that I know that information, but I still think it would have been better for the Perfect Traffic Storm people to make the sales page their own. I mean, there’s lots of different software out there, which is what the backend essentially is, but they all look different. I ran a vBulletin forum for six years, but I make it my own by changing what I could. They PTS people should have done their own sales page. Especially if they can afford the $1297 price tag the Source Code Millions software costs… Oh wow, awesome Chuck!! Thanks for that!

After I finished writing this post I kept investigating, and in doing so found another three sites that have a similar theme to their sales pages – not the same, but very close. I guess I now know why.

Ok, so perhaps that doesn’t make it as bad now that I know that information, but I still think it would have been better for the Perfect Traffic Storm people to make the sales page their own.

I mean, there’s lots of different software out there, which is what the backend essentially is, but they all look different. I ran a vBulletin forum for six years, but I make it my own by changing what I could. They PTS people should have done their own sales page.

Especially if they can afford the $1297 price tag the Source Code Millions software costs…

]]> By: Melani http://affiliatespam.com/2010/01/the-perfect-traffic-storm-or-just-more-waves-of-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Melani Sun, 03 Jan 2010 09:49:59 +0000 http://affiliatespam.com/?p=779#comment-28 Hey Jayson! Thanks for sharing your comments. It’s good to hear from someone actually using it. I didn’t realise you could purchase credits as well… then again, I didn’t look too hard into the exact ins and outs of using it. Keep in touch and let us know how you go if you keep using it… Hey Jayson! Thanks for sharing your comments. It’s good to hear from someone actually using it. I didn’t realise you could purchase credits as well… then again, I didn’t look too hard into the exact ins and outs of using it.

Keep in touch and let us know how you go if you keep using it…

]]> By: Chuck Meldon http://affiliatespam.com/2010/01/the-perfect-traffic-storm-or-just-more-waves-of-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Chuck Meldon Sun, 03 Jan 2010 08:11:31 +0000 http://affiliatespam.com/?p=779#comment-23 Apparently Perfect Traffic Storm makes use of a script sold by Brett Ingram called SourceCode Millions. http://www.sourcecodemillions.com/livehomepage-longcopy.html Looks like the guys doing PTS haven't even bothered to change the sales page that I assume would come with it. That, or it didn't come with a sales page and they've just copied and pasted Traffic Python's one. Either way, a dodge move and as this post is a clear example, easily found out. By the way, only just recently found the blog and so far, really like what you're doing! I like the no bullshit approach! Keep it up! Apparently Perfect Traffic Storm makes use of a script sold by Brett Ingram called SourceCode Millions.

http://www.sourcecodemillions.com/livehomepage-longcopy.html

Looks like the guys doing PTS haven’t even bothered to change the sales page that I assume would come with it. That, or it didn’t come with a sales page and they’ve just copied and pasted Traffic Python’s one.

Either way, a dodge move and as this post is a clear example, easily found out.

By the way, only just recently found the blog and so far, really like what you’re doing! I like the no bullshit approach! Keep it up!

]]> By: Jayson http://affiliatespam.com/2010/01/the-perfect-traffic-storm-or-just-more-waves-of-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Jayson Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:59:07 +0000 http://affiliatespam.com/?p=779#comment-22 I've been in it for a couple of weeks and my review is mixed... The basic idea is that you get a slide-in ad impression on someone else's site for about 15 seconds. That impression costs you "credits". You get a certain number of credits free, and you have the option of either buying more (at a starting rate of 5 cents per impression, it is expensive) or earning more. And this is where it gets interesting. You earn credits by sending traffic to a site using one of their redirect links. When you do, someone else's ad shows up as the slide-in on that site. The clever twist is that you can send traffic to ANY site through a Perfect Storm redirect link. For example, I could post a tweet saying "Go check out this site!" with a redirect to Google, and I would earn credits for every click. And maybe now you are starting to see one of the weak points of this system. If I am sending traffic somewhere, I want it to convert for me, not for the person whose ad appears. So I am only going to earn credits by sending traffic to sites I don't care about, and it probably won't convert well. I suspect I am not the only one using the system this way. The conversion rates for me have been... well, nil. Over 300 impressions to three different ads, two are squeeze pages and the third is a high converting sales page, and I have had not a single opt-in or sale. Not surprising since of the 300 impressions, there have been maybe 2 clicks on my banner ads. It's also disappointing that the impressions dribble in, at the rate of maybe 20-30 per day. Maybe this will get better as the system grows. In summary, this is a clever twist on the traffic exchange idea. And I suspect as in many of these clever systems, the people at the top (you also earn credits by getting referrals to sign up under you, and you can earn commissions on their purchases and upgrades) can do well. But I have been disappointed with it, and I suspect most free and low end users will not get much from it. I’ve been in it for a couple of weeks and my review is mixed…

The basic idea is that you get a slide-in ad impression on someone else’s site for about 15 seconds. That impression costs you “credits”. You get a certain number of credits free, and you have the option of either buying more (at a starting rate of 5 cents per impression, it is expensive) or earning more. And this is where it gets interesting.

You earn credits by sending traffic to a site using one of their redirect links. When you do, someone else’s ad shows up as the slide-in on that site. The clever twist is that you can send traffic to ANY site through a Perfect Storm redirect link. For example, I could post a tweet saying “Go check out this site!” with a redirect to Google, and I would earn credits for every click.

And maybe now you are starting to see one of the weak points of this system. If I am sending traffic somewhere, I want it to convert for me, not for the person whose ad appears. So I am only going to earn credits by sending traffic to sites I don’t care about, and it probably won’t convert well.

I suspect I am not the only one using the system this way. The conversion rates for me have been… well, nil. Over 300 impressions to three different ads, two are squeeze pages and the third is a high converting sales page, and I have had not a single opt-in or sale. Not surprising since of the 300 impressions, there have been maybe 2 clicks on my banner ads. It’s also disappointing that the impressions dribble in, at the rate of maybe 20-30 per day. Maybe this will get better as the system grows.

In summary, this is a clever twist on the traffic exchange idea. And I suspect as in many of these clever systems, the people at the top (you also earn credits by getting referrals to sign up under you, and you can earn commissions on their purchases and upgrades) can do well. But I have been disappointed with it, and I suspect most free and low end users will not get much from it.

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