My statistics were shocking!

The traffic I ordered had no IP address, no search engine, none of my visitors navigated past front page! I paid for these "Guarantee'd Real Visitors," and I have right to know where they come from. Guess what, I figured it out!

A few of hits that they had sent, slipped up, and didn't disguise their origin as well as they should have...

I kept seeing same IP address over and over and over again about 900 times in one day. I thought somebody out there really must love my web site or it's scam hit company I hired. Well I clicked link that night which was labeled with an IP address, not actual web site .com name itself just numbers of IP address....I clicked that and wouldn't you know it? I received just a site telling me it doesn't exist.

With my campaign still running next day along with all "unknown" places I seen a peculiar url and had to click that to see where over 500 of same people were coming from and I ended up in Pop Up hell! You know that hell don't you? Where you are swarmed with so many pop ups that you literally have to pull plug on your computer to get out of it? The sad part about that link is that all Pop Ups were from PORNO sites!

It's no wonder these companies don't tell where they deliver their traffic from! After all, what ethical business wants to advertise on those disgusting adult sites?

So you want to know exactly how this all works?

After following slipped up referral link, I was directed to a website where anyone can post their own free adult site. (If your going to try and follow these links yourself, I would suggest switching your browser to text only mode, as I did. Otherwise you'll get flooded with pop-ups, and disgusting porno pictures.)

Now we have determined that my traffic was coming from this site, but I didn't see my site at all...

I switched back to my traffic log, and hit refresh. I WAS STUNNED! At top of my log, I had 12 hits to my site, all with my IP address!!! By viewing this site just once, I recieved 12 hits!!

I switched over to www.Alexa.com. Alexa is a site ranking service, that can tell you how popular a site is. This adult site that I was listed on was recieving 786,376 hits per day, on average during that week. Multiply that by 12, and that's where all my traffic came from!

So now we know what site is generating traffic, but how are they disguising IP address. Why wasn't my site ever shown on screen to me? The answer lies in HTML source code...

Here are secret codes!!

One of tricks that these companies use is a way they hide where your traffic is coming from. The way they do this is through a redirect code. A redirect code is simply a cade that webmasters use on their websites to take one website and send it another way.

The biggest trick is how they can mysteriously load your site multiple times, without you seeing it. They do this by embedding your site into theirs, and making it tiny. So tiny in fact, that it looks like a period. So instead of using periods at end of their sentances, they just embed their clients sites sites to look like a period.

Try it for yourself

Open up your HTML editor, or notepad, and create a sample page using this code.

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Now open it in your web browser. What you get is a small box in left hand corner of your website. For this example, I made code 5x larger than these companies do. So you can see how easily they disguise these sites. Inside that little square, is actually an entire website!!

So your thinking, they just embed my site into that little square, 10-15 times on page, and that's where my hits come from. Yes, and No. Essentially that's how it works, but if they put your website into that square, you could easily trace traffic back to adult site. So what they do is put their redirect page into that square, and redirect it to your site, so now it looks like all traffic is coming from them.

So let's put it all together.

You order traffic from a traffic company.

The traffic company creates a free adult site and lists it into a directory of free adult sites. According to our alexa review these sites get 786,376 hits per day. If their redirect page gets 12 hits every time someone loads adult site, that means they have an average of 9,436,512 hits per day, which they divide among their clients.

For some of Monster Traffic Companies, 9.5 million visitors a day just isn't enough. They can easily turn that 9.5 million visitors, into as many as they need. Instead of embedding redirect page. They embed a page full of these periods. That way, when their "period farm" page loads, they can have as many sites load as they want.

They simply change redirect page to whatever client they want traffic sent to.

Your counter goes crazy, and all your hits are delivered.

You never make a sale. Now you can understand how you could have thousands of visitors sent your way, and never make a sale. Your site is never really displayed.

The traffic company has delivered exactly what they said they would, and are clear from any refunds.

Our Company, www.CadenzaWeb.com Provides You with REAL traffic, that you can track, and get detailed statistics on. Our Sales have quadrupled since we started using this ourselves. Check Out www.CadenzaWeb.com for more information. Interested in becoming an ethical traffic reseller? We have a dedicated website just for resellers at wholesale rates as low as $1 CPM (per 1000). www.Sell-Traffic.com

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Cory Stone is playing at Waco River Jam Festival on September 25, 2004 (time TBA) and will appear at a guitar clinic in Houston, Texas and King Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena, Arkansas (dates and times TBA). Sound samples are available at his website http://www.corystoneguitarist.com along with links to Amazon and CD Baby to purchase CD.

Contact: Cory Stone P.O. Box 5807 Waco, TX 76708

Tel: 505-270-4495

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Website: http://www.corystoneguitarist.com

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