I have been considering promoting some adsense sites via traffic swarm. It does not use pop-ups and people click on targeted ads to visit your website. I have heard from other sites that this could get you banned.

But, there is no incentive for people to click on google ads once at your site, and I can not see where TrafficSwarm woud be against Googles Adsense terms and conditions.

Anyone have more specific knowledge on the subject. Are we able to contact Google directly with such questions?

Hello,

I have read anecdotal reports of people being banned for heavily spiked traffic. If TrafficSwarm now performs in the manner it claims, then I'd be careful.

However, a further question would be "Will using TrafficSwarm get you traffic" - I looked into it a few years ago (admittedly when it was in its infancy) and it really did not funnel any significant traffic my way - however, things may have changed

In general sites like traffic swarm make a lot of promises and deliver very little that will do much to help your site. And in the worst case you could find your site in trouble with search engines. I don't know about traffic swarm specifically, but I took a quick look and I know I would never use them.

Hi again,

Your enquiry got me thinking a little, so I referred back to the Google AdSense ToS and found the following:

[quote]
Prohibited Clicks
... Any method that artificially generates clicks or impressions is strictly prohibited. These prohibited methods include but are not limited to: repeated manual clicks or impressions, incentives to click or to generate impressions, using robots, automated click and impression generating tools, third-party services that generate clicks or impressions such as paid-to-click, paid-to-surf, autosurf, and click-exchange programs
[unquote]

(bold, underline is mine)

Isn't TrafficSwarm a "click-exchange program"? If so, there's your answer

Cheers,

I think the clicks they refer to are the links to your site and not the AdSense links. They use the word clicks, but it's still a link exchange thing. I still wouldn't recommend it.

Thanks guys. No surprise but I have seen that natural traffic, particularly from Google itself, is the most profitable.

I used TrafficSwarm about two years ago for one of my sites. To generate credits, you had to click on other members links. Most of the members would probably click you link without paying much attention to your website. Just a big waste of time because I was getting people visiting my site to generate credits and I didn't see much of a traffic increase either.

dont put your site on any autosurfing or manual surfing site that has site rotations.im sure that you will get banned from adsense coz it creates invalid impression they say.i just got a warning from google adsense.its better to get traffic another way.its a quite hard job to get real visitors for your site

It is better to stay away from Auto surf, Manual surf sites, as the visitors visit your site just to get credits and not for the content. I have seen such site visitors stay at your site for zero seconds.

What of Stormclix and blogexplosion ? are they legit ?

You can use an intermediate landing site before you sent traffic to your site with AdSense but that will cut down on your CTR.

oh i guess you will be banned as adsense policies states ,

The problem with a Traffic Swarm-type of a deal is that certain ads in AdSense aren't based on click-throughs, but impressions.

As an earlier poster pointed out, Adsense could ban you for falsifying or artificially inflating impression counts.

But that's not your deeper issue here. Your deeper issue is whether or not you could potentially get banned from search engines themselves based on artificial link manipulation. You see, if it's a click exchange, that means you have to send traffic to other sites too (one of those "it works both ways" deals). And if you don't have any control over the outbound links from your site (which the BS programs I've seen generally don't allow), you could link to pretty well anyone. And that could get you banned, especially if you inadvertently link to a bad area.

So stay away from things like this and stick to organic traffic.

Have you tried adding google ads on the new blogger beta? I have been having problems with running goole adsense after converting to blogger beta.

Any solution in sight.

Originally Posted by ADAM Web Design

The problem with a Traffic Swarm-type of a deal is that certain ads in AdSense aren't based on click-throughs, but impressions.

As an earlier poster pointed out, Adsense could ban you for falsifying or artificially inflating impression counts.

Yes, that's the problem. But I just cannot help wondering how can Adsense find you are using that kind of programs?

They have cameras everywhere and they do it with mirrors.

I think TrafficSwarm may bring traffic to your site, but it won't help with CTR. Focus your energies on organic traffic.

Originally Posted by tiandrive

Yes, that's the problem. But I just cannot help wondering how can Adsense find you are using that kind of programs?

They tend to leave rather obvious footprints. For example, a site that links to totally unrelated stuff on its opening page with SEOed anchor text. Or a site that gains 100s of page views per day with very few backlinks and none of any quality. Things like that.