DavidR
October 28th, 2006, 10:07 AM
I have read discussions on how Google and some advertisers sees MySpace traffic as rubbish traffic. Maybe traffic that comes from 'spammed' bulletins/comments.
Personally I disagree with them on that, as the only way to receive those messages is to willingly accept your account as a friend. So you are allowing for whatever that person posts (Unlike spam e-mail where you don't have a choice on whether that person can contact you or not) - you can remove them simply enough if you dislike what they are posting/messaging. And if you dislike what they are messaging and find what they say of no relevance, then surely you won't click any links to any sites advertised... Which means only people who want to hear the things you have to say and only those who find interest in your links will click to your website... which means it isn't exactly 'spam' it is targeted information, to the audience that you cater for, which does not make it rubbish traffic it makes it the exact traffic your site is made for, the right audience for your ads too.
Well that's my opinion on it, please share yours, especially if you disagree it would be good to see valid opinions from the other side for a more rounded look at it.
But my actual question is, how far back does Google track referring visits? I have seen some people say they take off AdSense when they send out bulletins or messages. Could you not for example, direct all your bulletin links to www.siteA.com and then automatically transfer (using the usual HTML forwarding code) all who get to www.siteA.com to www.siteB.com? SiteB being your actual site. Surely Google would then just sees it as people visiting from www.siteA.com as opposed to people visiting from http://bulletin.myspace.com (or whatever it is) via a 'spammed' bulletin?
If that makes sense, anyone able to shed light on this, or have anything to add?
Personally I disagree with them on that, as the only way to receive those messages is to willingly accept your account as a friend. So you are allowing for whatever that person posts (Unlike spam e-mail where you don't have a choice on whether that person can contact you or not) - you can remove them simply enough if you dislike what they are posting/messaging. And if you dislike what they are messaging and find what they say of no relevance, then surely you won't click any links to any sites advertised... Which means only people who want to hear the things you have to say and only those who find interest in your links will click to your website... which means it isn't exactly 'spam' it is targeted information, to the audience that you cater for, which does not make it rubbish traffic it makes it the exact traffic your site is made for, the right audience for your ads too.
Well that's my opinion on it, please share yours, especially if you disagree it would be good to see valid opinions from the other side for a more rounded look at it.
But my actual question is, how far back does Google track referring visits? I have seen some people say they take off AdSense when they send out bulletins or messages. Could you not for example, direct all your bulletin links to www.siteA.com and then automatically transfer (using the usual HTML forwarding code) all who get to www.siteA.com to www.siteB.com? SiteB being your actual site. Surely Google would then just sees it as people visiting from www.siteA.com as opposed to people visiting from http://bulletin.myspace.com (or whatever it is) via a 'spammed' bulletin?
If that makes sense, anyone able to shed light on this, or have anything to add?