UPDATE: Traffic Bug owner Michael Roberts admitted that no links were going out and/or the links that did get obtained were then removed and deleted because Spammers using his service got a lot of the social bookmarking accounts disabled.
To date, here’s what I’ve seen on the marketing forums and from blog readers’ feedback on Traffic Bug.
The links aren’t showing up in backlinks checkers –
This doesn’t really matter, or mean anything because most of these backlink checkers are inaccurate and it takes time for them to update their link creditations and they get their link verification from other 3d party sources anyways.
What really matters is whether or not your rankings and/or traffic has increased, as that is the only true barometer for the effectiveness of a service like Traffic Bug.
There’s been no spikes on increases in traffic –
Links take time to have an effect on your SERPs and traffic so you need to give it 90 days before expecting any real results. However, you should consider the types of links you’re getting with Traffic Bug prior to expecting results.
With Traffic Bug you get:
RSS submission for main site feed - very limited in scope for backlinks acquisition as is really only a one time thing
Social bookmarking links - Not really a powerful backlink type nowadays anyways since they’re all mostly No Follow link attributes, unless you’re getting hundreds and hundreds of them.
Directory submissions/search engine submissions - You get over 100 of these submissions for each site/site url entered into their system, and these are helpful, yet not powerful links.
So what could make Traffic Bug “worth your while”
Well, first of all, don’t be fooled or socially engineered into thinking that the time saved is really worth the price of admission if the time that’s being saved for you is time better off spent doing other stuff anyways.
The RSS submissions alone are not worth the price of admission, and neither is any of the other features that combine to make this service what it is.
The submissions generate low quality links except for the RSS submissions, but those can be deemed low quality too if you’re only doing a one-time RSS submission for your main site feed and not generating RSS backlinks to every single other piece of site content that you have.
As of right now I am NOT recommending this service whole-heartedly but am recommending it with certain caveats. Like I mentioned to others on the Warrior Forum, the saving grace, and maybe the only reasons to use and keep this service are the following:
1- If you haven’t done any directory submissions, RSS submissions or obtained any social bookmarking links for any of your sites site, and you have a dozen or sites, then it IS a good idea to use this service to get those tasks out of the way, as it can’t hurt and you’ll get them all done within the first 30 days of your stay with them.
You see, Traffic Bug will do most of the work that it ends up doing for you in the first few days, then a little bit more over the next month but then it seems to stop doing “stuff” for your sites, so you will at least get a lot of real low-level basic SEO tasks out of the way here, for ALL your sites, for a low, low cost.
2- USE THEIR RELATED URLS FEATURE!!!!!!
Yeah, big CAPS on this one here because it seems to me that using Traffic Bug to hit the front page of your site, your main domain name url…isn’t going to pay off with extreme link juice and rankings for your sites…
So…
Use the Related URLS feature to get deep inner links to your sites.
Get links to urls other thna the main domain name url.
More often than not, most webmasters put their main keyword they’re targeting in their main domain name title and then focus on getting long-tail traffic from their site content.
As you may/may not know, it usually easier to get highly ranked for long-tail terms as they have less SEO competition thus requires fewer backlinks and can end up ranking well if there is a modicum of links (no matter their quality) pointing to those posts or pages.
Final Test
Since I think Traffic Bug could be useful for their Related URLS feature but not very useful for everything else, the final part of my review will take one site I have in there and create 10 new campaigns using their Related URLs feature.
The 10 campaigns will focus on getting links from Traffic Bug to these long-tail optimized posts to see what the results are. I had this done for me last night, so it will only few a few days, maybe as long as two weeks before I start seeing some sort of benefit or lack thereof.
Get it now?
Yes, if you have more than 5 sites that you haven’t done any link building or submissions for yet and need to establish some sort of base for getting those sites ranked and linked to.
UPDATE: Traffic Bug owner Michael Roberts admitted that no links were going out and/or the links that did get obtained were then removed and deleted because Spammers using his service got a lot of the social bookmarking accounts disabled.
UPDATE 2:
I know for a fact links got delivered because all those directory submissions that were done ended up with me getting emails and notifications on where my urls submitted were submitted to, and I also got brief surges in traffic on the days I submitted new “campaigns”
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Whoa! Time for a page of shame maybe? Liked the blog post at Warrior forum, spot on. I get so tired of seeing this service got me banned etc.
Thanks David.. did you notice nobody came out and said that to those people?
Why? Because it pays to let them gripe and not fully inform them, time for a new WSO!!!
BTW, I do have a wall of shame for link building service to not use, click here to see it
Oooh, almost Friday, weekend’s about to start for me can’t wait, it’s been a long week, what with BLS tanking on me/us temporarily and having to defend my recommendations even though I don’t run/own/maintain the service.
Looking forward to updating or wrapping up my Google Sniper review, Content Buzz review and Free Traffic System reviews next week.
Question: is there any reference post where the owner of Traffic Bug admits that the accounts were being banned, thus there were no backlinks created? That’s terrible for Traffic Bug though, because spammers often put up a really tough fight.
I think Sanjeev just answered that Roberts sent out an email stating/admitting this, so can really can’r refute that.
Even if TB comes back, you gotta remember
Once bitten twice shy.
I wouldn’t rejoin even if it were free, despite the minimal effects it has for people’s sites
Hi
I am a subscriber for Traffic Bug. I did get an email to say that they’d had a few problems with spammers and will be creating new bookmarking accounts to help solve this.
I’m simply going to see how it pans out over the long term, the service is still fairly new.
Dan,
LOL, I didn’t know you had that other site interesting stuff over there. Have you ever thought about doing your own program? Maybe there is a demand for a no BS internet marketing guide aimed at newer promoters?
Hey Dave,
Google Internet Marketing Guide and you’ll see my site in top 10.
For “relief” from BS fluff marketing info, Google Marketer’s Relief
So, the answer’s yes,
Dan
No BS – OK, lets talk! I too took the TB program through the 30DC and, in stage one I was very concerned as it was being used against the auto blogging software. Now, in reality, if there was any hope of the software creating back links, you would ony give Google more reason to blacklist your domain.
Take the other side to this, and look at the expression “being spammed!” What was he expecting from this industry, clean, respectable and none money grabbing people?
Yes, thats what most of this industry is built on – people just wanting to make money and, a lot of them don’t care how they do it, and how they hurt people doing it.
If that was the case, why would he ban those people, re-open new bookmarking accounts and start again? Yes, I can see that those who took things early got no backlinks – so should he have gone to everyone…. “Huston, we have a problem!” Yes is the correct answer – and he should have refunded those who had paid for those months and, rebuilt his system setup to carry on.
Has he continued?
Looks like it, because I opened a new account this week, plugged in a url I wanted to test, and by George, it’s working again and, the links are appearing. The main issue that everyone seemed to have was they couldn’t see where the backlinks were – but obviously, this is not the case, because I am finding my links within a few days and my site (which i set up for the trial) has been indexed and is ranking.
Amazing, when someone launches a beta product, people need to fully understand what “Beta” means. And, should anyone not undestand that theory, then if in doubt, don’t do it!
I’m not plugging this service at all – just passing on my experience from the first egg that cracked, to the omlette I have just been presented with at my table.
Thanks for the feedback.
What made this problem worse than it had to be is:
30 DC forum is very anti- open-and -frank-communication
Roberts’ Customer Support and treatment of customers
He hasn’t honored my refund request (yet) and should since he didn’t deliver as promised. Whether or not it’s his fault doesn’t matter.
If you order an omelette and you don’t get an omelette, you deserve an omelette or your money back.
Either way you probably don’t want to go back to that “restaurant”
Plus I know he knows about this site and the threads going on at the much more PRO-open-discussion Warrior Forum discussing this mess.
So he’s choosing where and when to say what’s he’s got to say, and isn’t proudly and emphatically defending his program.
30DC and MR should have more confidence in themselves and their products by allowing frank discussion, positive or negative
Either way, everyone should move on stop beyyaitching and get something like link juicer or any of the 4 services I recommend at top of this site
haha hilarious comments on here!! Give the chap a break, Traffic Bug is a good service. It got sabotaged. Get over it lads. Everyone is so bitchy, ready to jump on the bandwagon. Do I smell a bit of jealousy from you Daniel? I think so. Have you ever completed the 30DC? Ed and the gang prob teach half the stuff you have in the marketers relief, and they do it for free.
lol @ “30 DC forum is very anti- open-and -frank-communication” haha its just so bitches like you cant slag everyone off at any half given chance. Kudos to them!
Yes Trevor, jealousy that’s the main reason for the review…
Never did 30 DC no need for me to do it but I hear the course is rock solid.
Here’s something you might want to read:
http://www.warriorforum.com/internet-marketing-product-reviews-ratings/110417-anyone-using-traffic-bug-2.html
See how I defended the product, told people to remain patient, to give it a chance etc…
Then re-read my last comment where I wrote:
“Either way, everyone should move on stop beyyaitching and get something like link juicer or any of the 4 services I recommend at top of this site.”
Move on people! Or wait for the Second coming…
The thread I mentioned and linked to above depicts how several people got their accounts shut down and how certain threads on the 30CD forum got closed.
To me that’s anti-open-communication, but its their site, their service, their forum and they can do whatever they want.
You called me jealous?
And yet you’re not banned and your comment is and shall remain approved.
I can take it!
Yeah its not that kinda place over there though. Its a more supportive place. But I do see your point. I thought, you’d take the bait.
I did get sucked into there when investigating a backlink source, seems that someone linked to my site from the forum so I did go there, and what I saw sort of confirmed what others said.. almost as if the mods there were suppressing any “back talk” via their responses and other actions.
Not sure what your bait was, enjoy yourself good luck with your biz.
Have had Traffic Bug for 7 weeks – no links yet
Cancelled my subscription payments, system hasn’t kicked me out I can still add sites. If the system starts working I will start paying.
Also RE: 30DC anti- open-and -frank-communication
I had a problem with some software purchased via 30DC and voiced it in the forum and was threatened with being banned
I tried to log into TB today after a couple of months, and the site says the service is shut down for an upgrade. Do you guys think there is really an improvement in the works, or that they shut it down for real but don’t want people to realize it’s permanent
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If I were you, I’d forget about TB entirely.
Their management and custome rinteraction is poor, and there hasn’t bene much benefit attained from social bookmarking and directory submissions, at least not worth your time with the directory submissions since many of them requires you manually click a link in your email to add site to their directory.
Most directories only list your url for a few weeks or so then they remove it unless you pay them something…
Usually when I read a review about onilne services like TB I expect it to be some sales pitch saying how good it is followed by an affiliate link.
I was very happy to find that this was actually a real review – with pro’s and cons. I have bookmarked this site for further research – thanks and keep up the good (real) work.
Hey Mikey, thanks for stopping by… yeah we got real reviews here, stick around and ask questions
Thanks,
Dan
Hello
just now i subscribed for traffic bug i could not able to go in and it is still in “trial period expired” page itself when login in please suggest.
Maybe you should have tried reading this review first, not sure why you joined in first place