Tip on spotting suspect traffic names

[David G]

There seems to be a lot of suspect traffic names at the forums lately. I have never seen so many in the past.

One tip is that I have noticed a number of them somehow involve Asian traffic going to non-asian domains. Always check the stats hrly traffic. Watch for unusual patterns especially a lot more traffic late at night than during the day (using US time zone).

One more tip I can give is look at odd looking moves up and down (instead of normal uptrends and downtrends) in traffic making the graph look choppy rather than a smooth look to it. A normal traffic graph looks like a near perfect bell curve moving up steadily in the early going, with one high peak about mid-day, or alternatively a double top, one in late morning and again early afternoon (but still keeping an overall bell shape), and then a long consistent downtrend into the late afternoon and evening.

photo of Bell Rock, Sedona AZ - webalizer stats traffic looks like it: www.basstracks.com/photo/sedona01.jpg

Some of this talk is extracted from stock and commodities market jargon but is applicable to domain traffic.

Anyone else here have some tips?

 

[Cash Is King]

Test the traffic before purchasing!

 

[Cash Is King]

It'd be nice to test it, but the seller could still be directing fake traffic to it while you're testing it, no?

The only tip I can think of is buy traffic domains from a reputable seller.

Yes... but I would not test traffic at sedo or domain sponsor. I thought it was commonplace for members to set up one of there non traffic domains on a server and then have the traffic forwarded to that name so that you could analyze the referrer logs. Cpanel Right?