Web Site Traffic Delivery Services: Could they be scams?

As an internet marketer promoting my website, there is the need to
seek out ways to drive traffic to my site.

As a result I am constantly getting all kinds of UCE messages about
services which offer to blast your ad to hundreds of thousands of new
visitors.

These so-called online publicity services put out such tempting
subject lines such as:

Get over 3000 daily visitors to your site a day Guaranteed!

Your solo ad to over 10,000 opt-in subscribers.

New traffic generator boosts your online sales to new heights.

Flood your site with traffic.

A lot of these "traffic delivery services" could be popunder or
flyover ad networks where not very many people will actually visit
your page.
Some of them could be outright scams operated by running a net surfing
computer program.

Hit counters do not necessarily indicate that your page was actually
seen by so many someones.

I believe the best way to see what goes on at the business end of the
Internet is to place text links, banners or buttons which compel
visitors to click on them, though not necessarily try to sell them
something.

My favorite is a joke link where one would click on a link to get the
answer to some quirky question.

An example of such is on http://www.travelclickmap.com. Scroll down
to the bottom of the page to the "Joke of the month".

I have developed a set of server-side programs which record page link
acctivity at my web site. After seeing the number of page visits in a
given day, I can check how many times each selected link on that page
was clicked on that same day. Over the past few weeks I have been
keeping log of my page link activity on a spreadsheet.

I am seriously suspecting that some of these traffic delivery services
are scam outfits.
On one day I got more than two hundred page visits without a single
link or banner clicked on!

What I consider to be the "Gold Standard" of traffic delivery services
is Google Ad Words. You can be assured that your page is actually
visited, in fact, I actually sold stuff on Google AWs. If you monitor
and record the results of Ad Words campaign (page visits and page link
activity) on a spreadsheet, you will see a pattern emerge which seems
consistant with what you might expect are the links and banners a
typical visitor would most likely click on.

I can then pause my AdWords campaign and test other services or
programs now that I have a way of monitoring the effectiveness of such
services.

If you would like to receive reports of my testing results of the
various traffic delivery services you can email me at
info RemoveThis @apmatics.com.

Francis