Duckinla said:
I made $10K in the last 30 days from typos of a national promotion. My parking company made another $10K. I find it hard to believe that the advertisers got $20K worth of value. Someone was probably a hero for a period of time when the website went nuts but I can't imagine it resulted in real revenue for them. Is there going to be a backlash from advertisers against low-quality traffic? Will there be 20 times as many people doing this in the next 12 months, making good names hard to come by? Are there built-in controls that make this a win-win for all involved? Probably not a popular subject here but I would like to hear some thoughts.
I am trying to determine if:
a) you used this post simply to attempt to brag
b) you are admitting to using some sort of traffic inflation system
c) you feel guilty
However, you do bring up a good point.
I think traffic will always be valuable, especially highly targeted traffic. I think DS has it right currently - my domains with targeted traffic make more than 8 times per click compared to the names with international/untargeted traffic.
Of course, SEDO has no problem with untargeted traffic, until its time for them to pay you and they cancel your account saying the traffic did not generate enough conversions and therefore they aren't giving you a cent...