HAL2000
Member
I've been using this software for weeks now and although on their website it says I have tons of links going to that domain, none of them are showing up when I go into Samurai and do a backlink check from Yahoo. I know the directories take awhile but the 2.0 sites like Propeller should be instantaneous.
Is anyone else experiencing this?
Traffic Bug promises all these backlinks and yet none of them are there yet, not even the ones from 2.0 sites when they should be.
Google has to crawl and find the links now. Since some of the directories are not crawled as much as others it will take time. So just be patient because if Traffic Bug submitted all the links at once and google found them you would be sand boxed. This way you have new links coming in and increasing your authority.
PS Did you set up your site with Google Webmaster? Because I am getting a link here and there and webmaster lets me know from where. Hint most are from some obscure directory which is ok because my rank is also increasing.
Vincent
Member
The software still in beta. I believe the detail of link submission is major requested.
bornstein75
Member
To be honest, I don't know what to think about Traffic Bug.
i had a site ranking in the top 10 on the front page of google for over a month, then I started using Traffic Bug during the 30DC and then my site went off the radar and hasn't regained rank at all...I'm not even sure where it's ranked.
I don't know if that was coincidence, or if Traffic Bug is to blame. i started a thread on the 30DC forum about this and other guys also said the same thing happened to them.
Anyway, the bottom line is that I'm not going to subscribe to Traffic Bug as I got my site to rank on the top page without any other software.
The one good thing i can say about Traffic bug is that it does create backlinks and they do show up.
ltk
Member
I've been using Traffic Bug for over a month now. The detail of link submissions in the reports definitely could be better, but yeah it's still in beta, so I'll wait it out. For $19 bucks a month for 30DC members or $25 for everyone else, I think it covers the cost with what it does.
I've asked the support staff about all these issues and they've been super fast to respond. All I can say is that I like where it's headed.
Have I been successful with it? I'd say yes. The best are the directory submissions. Those are the worst to do manually. As laid out in this review of Traffic Bug, the directory submissions will really help, but take time. But, the RSS feed submissions should bump you up fairly quickly depending on your niche. And as for the social bookmarks, those are dripped over time. Y! site explorer, G, and/or SEO toolbar won't show you all of the bookmarks you get (ever) or some smart dudes would be able to figure out their ranking algo.
Anyway, not super defending TB, but I know it works and am a happy subscriber. As long as it's doing this OVER TIME (dripping), that's all I care about. I'll go and use Onlywire or BMD for the big SBMs that I want now and let Traffic Bug drip. At least, that's my strategy.
I am curious about Market Samurai and Traffic Bug, though. I don't really use the post feature in MS, so I haven't seen what the integration's like. I'll have to check it out. I've noticed a thread about a TB posting error from MS, though...posting posts as main site links. That would be bad...
Jeremy
Member
I find Traffic Bug pretty spammy. I won't be upgrading. Looking through some of the listing confirmations gave me the horrors. My bedroom furniture website is submitted regularly under 'business', 'health', 'b2b' and lots of other TOTALLY WRONG categories. It's just so obvious that it's all about the backlink, the backlink, and the backlink only. I thought we all knew that real SEO is about the Visitor Experience, i.e. not to build pages/links/anything 'just' for the sake of SE bots, but ONLY for the visitor.
I have better blackhat tools for this, should I want them. I'm truly a bit shaken that nobody at MS picked up on this indiscretion.
Ed Dale does not just choose vendors for the Thirty Day Challenge lightly. So do what you feel you have to do Jeremy. I just hope everyone that reads this, uses a little critical thinking about the caliber of the service Ed lets into the Thirty Day Challenge. I would also like to ask, did you send a support ticket to Traffic Bug informing them of your issues? After all it is in beta and any information will only improve the service. Maybe instead of accusing them of being spammy in Market Samurai"s forum let them know thru a support ticket.
I feel Ed's totally dropped the ball on this Vendor:
I found absolutely zero backlinks in over 6 weeks of heavy submissions. Turns out, i'm not alone:
I really hoped it would work. I'm not a skeptical person, and i let it go for ages before coming to conclusion that it JUST ISN'T WORKING. It's unfortunate, but true. Sorry to burst the bubble folks!
Pat
Member
Sadly to say after 2 months I have not had much success with Traffic-Bug either. Traffic-Bug says they have submitted 60+ backlinks for one of my sites but they do not show up anywhere.
HoboChilli
Member
I have been experiencing a lot of obvious bugs like the recent bug where you're forced to enter more than 3 titles even though the original requirement was minimum 3 titles. So if I enter 4 titles, then it says I have title 5 empty. Yet each time I send in a tech support request this and other issues, there's always someone new to answer the support email. The amount of the obvious bugs that keep cropping up seems to indicate its a one man shop.
HoboChilli,
I experienced this same problem two days ago, but with the recent interface upgrade it has been fixed. I'm sure it was caused by the upgrade.
In my 3rd week now using Traffic bug and according to Traffic bug I got lots of backlinks to my websites. Market Samurai tracker only shows + max. 2 backlinks to some of my sites and none to others.
I was thinking that Google might not appreciate this artifical backlink building although they made it to submit "naturally" over time.
Perhaps it may result in a ban if they find out somehow. I am considering to stop Traffic bug after my trial period and just create high PR backlinks from, for example, Angela Edwards' backlink packages from the Warrior forum.
This way I stay in control where my backlinks come from and how they are submitted.
I caught Traffic bug submitting in the totally wrong categories quite often.
Samual
Member
I found Traffic Bug very disappointing, I will not be continuing. I also found it submitting in the wrong categories among other issues.
chrismoon
Member
I would love to see Traffic-Bug performing and am only commenting because it doesn't.
Thought I’d give a fair chance and tried it for 2 months on 2 sites however T-B produced nothing not a single backlink, absolutely no results at all.
In my opinion Traffic-bugs own stats are bull shit when the data doesn’t show elsewhere and cannot be confirmed.
Unfortunately my respect for Ed Dale and 30DC has taken a dent with this tool recommendation.
Sarobhai
Member
Well for what's it worth. I tried it now for nearly 3 weeks. I thought it was answer to all my prayers but it is proving to be a curse. I used to get 25% traffic, divided equally, through back links and search engines (it was not high numbers) and after handing it over to traffic Bug it has gone down to less than 8%.
Is this normal and if so how can I tell 'Traffic Bug' to stop submissions?
Thanks in advance.
Sarobhai
Member
Well this morning it looked even worse. So, deleted my sites. I dearly wanted it to work and I am disappointed.
Best of Luck
Personally I trusted Ed Dale.... Traffic Bug is turning out to look like a big scam... I am about to send a report to them in all fairness to Ed.
Ed if you are reading these post can you at least chime in and give us your opinion on the matter?
I feel the exact same way as many of you.
I was delighted with this tool and was almost sure it would be a big help.
So I started the trial at TB when it started (more than 3 months ago I believe).
I had two almost new sites with at most 5 backlinks to each, so I used them with Traffic Bug, it told me at the end of my trial that I had over hundred bookmarks and about the same directory submissions, but at that time I couldn't see any results, at all, and I felt that it just wrote it made those bookmarks but not really did it (now I'm sure).
And now over three months later I have only between 10 and 15 backlinks on those sites, I'm glad I stopped the trial.
I must say that the directory submissions must have been delivered as I had to confirm some of them, but they are not helping anything as they never got published because of all the wrong categories they were submitted in.
Kim Celinder
PS. I would also like to hear Ed's or other of those guys opinion.
tomartomartini
Member
well im in the 30DC.PLUS:IN THE SERVICE guru bob is still talking as if TB is all singing and dancing working great service that the world of internet marketing craves but only a select few have the power to unleash into the the unsuspecting web.2 world with
unmitigated stealth stamina steroids.the rich reality yet to be admitted not including our
good selves is that TB is a dead duck ,and that any amount of quacking is quackery the evidence shown by users is real and if any thing where true we are not quackers ; may be the proponents are ducking the issue on this lame duck software ,; but they cannot duck this issue ,they are out for a duck.TB is a dead duck.
so if you have paid well all we can say is"duckit"
I have to agree with all of you. Traffic Bug has proven itself to be a real loser, I'm afraid.
Here is a good (and very detailed and informative) post in the Warrior Forum about Traffic Bug:
Thank GOD Market Samurai is NOTHING like Traffic Bug! Market Samurai ROCKS!
Jac
Member
I think it is final. Traffic Bug has left the building. DNS servers unavailable and no support email connectivity.
Like many here have reported, I'm wondering why links that TB claims to have generated are not showing up. I am seeing the directory submissions, so was hopeful that it would come over time.
Now I see that the website has been taken down, DNS servers not found, no response to emails and support requests. BUT, they are still drawing the monthly fee.
Yes, it is looking very much like a SCAM!
Straight from the Thirty Day Challenge Plus – Q and A Webinar – November 2009
http://media.thirtydaychallengeplus.com/30DCPLUS200911_QandA_02.pdf
Question and Answer Session
[Starts at 00:01:00]
joseph - Early on in the Thirty Day Challenge, Michelle showed us how to submit our
articles to Social Bookmarking Sites. DO we still need to do that, or does Traffic
Bug handle all of that? Also, I seem to be getting better results, ranking-wise,
from Web 2.0 sites like eZineArticles vs. Scribd, Squidoo and Weebly which appear
to do nothing for me. I did submit all of them using Traffic Bug. Should I focus
more of my unique content on the better ones, or continue to spread it round
evenly? Thanks for all you do!
[ED] Excellent question, Joseph, and it allows us to cover lots of really important topics.
To answer the first question, the answer is Traffic Bug does, indeed, handle all of that. You
don’t need to submit your articles to the Social Bookmarking sites [if you are using Traffic
Bug]. Also, it does it in a very, very clever way.
What I want to do is pass over to Rob on this one, because we were talking about Traffic Bug at
length yesterday, and I really don’t think people have a clear understanding of exactly what it does
and why it’s so cool, and the very specific role that it takes. People seem to confuse it with a link-
building tool, and I would argue that while there’s an element of that, that’s not what it’s all about.
So Rob, take us through it. What is Traffic Bug, and why should people use it?
[RS] OK. What Traffic Bug does is automate things that you really should do when you either put up
new content onto the Internet, or a new Web Site.
The first thing that you should do when you put new content online is to engineer some services in
relation to that site which get that site noticed by the Search Engines. Until your new site or new
content is “Spidered” [looked at and indexed] by the Search Engines, then there’s no way that it can
appear in the Search Engines results pages. So, the first thing we do when we put new content
online is get it noticed.
Now, previously, the way you would do that is through manually bookmarking the site in the various
bookmarking sites, maybe submit the RSS feed to the RSS Directories and aggregators, and maybe
submit your site to various Search Engines. Traffic Bug essentially automates that process.
What Traffic Bug also does is submit the Site, where appropriate, to various Directories. Now, those
Directory submissions over time (and when I say over time, this can be anywhere from several weeks
to many months) may lead to a link [back to your site], and you are given credit for that link by the
Search Engines.
Most of the other things that Traffic Bug does – the Search Engine submission, the RSS
submission and the Social Bookmarking – they don’t lead to links, but they do lead to your site
getting quickly recognised and indexed by the various Search Engines, and that’s what we
want.
As you alluded in your opening comment, Ed, Traffic Bug is not (in and of itself) a link-building tool,
in the sense that you can just ignore any other link-building activities and just use Traffic Bug. If you
do that, you’re not going to get a very strong outcome.
All the other link building tools and stratagems that we taught in the Thirty Day Challenge are still
required, it’s just that the initial stuff you should do to get your content noticed is now automated by
Traffic Bug.
[ED] Absolutely, and we just really want to make that clear, because Traffic Bug fulfils a fabulous role
– in the old days, it would literally take 30-40 minutes (or you would outsource the function and pay
somebody) to even register with all these sites. So it’s very good at what it does and offers extremely
good value for money, and I love it (it’s actually a very complex task as well),
I think people try to make it more than what it is, though, and they think, “if I do Traffic Bug I don’t
need to do any other traffic-building activities.” Nothing could be further from the truth, and we
talked about a whole range of stuff in the last week of the Challenge, in terms of what you could look
at and what you could do [to increase your traffic]. So, please keep that in mind.
[RS] You and I also did a Link-Building audio seminar, which is in the Thirty Day Challenge
Plus [archive] content, and goes over all those various link-building strategies in quite some detail.
[ED] Great point! That is an exceptional series, and was created in relation to some very experienced
clients who were having difficulty with the concept of link-building. It really is a brilliant series, so
make sure you go back and have a look a the Thirty Day Challenge Plus Archives in your
Premiumcast account to have a look at that.
ddhamm
Member
I know as a traffic bug user (since the very beginning as a beta tester) that I was disappointed at first because my search engine placments went down initially after using TB. But that is because when you all of a sudden have backlinks, Google re-assesses a site to determine if they are good backlinks. It did not take long for my results in search engines to come back and they were better than before.
But now that TB's site is down for maintenance, I don't know what the future holds - I will just have to wait and what happens when they get their site back up with the improvements they are making.
DeeDee
As already mentioned, the site went down for a significant number of days for major software changes. Yet now that the site is back up, I don't see any change and no new entry was added to the software update list. Does anyone know what really took place? I was looking forward to an upgrade that would address some of the issues already posted.
redlegs
Member
I have been using traffic bug for 3 months now and have not detected one single backlink. Yet when I post on forums blogs etc the links often show up within a day or two. So much for the 60 day theory for Traffic Bug results. I posted in TDC forum last month that I would give it another month to prove it's worth well the month is up. I'll be spending my money else where next month.
I have been using traffic bug for 3 months now and have not detected one single backlink. Yet when I post on forums blogs etc the links often show up within a day or two. So much for the 60 day theory for Traffic Bug results. I posted in TDC forum last month that I would give it another month to prove it's worth well the month is up. I'll be spending my money else where next month.
Redlegs,
Did you read this. http://media.thirtydaychallengeplus.com/30DCPLUS200911_QandA_02.pdf it explains what traffic bug does and it is not just add water instant backlinks.
Ed is full of crap.
On his recent launch of his new product, he mentions himself that if you buy a domain, build a wordpress direct type site, and traffic bug it, you've got a PR3 Domain...
Listen for yourself:
http://www.ed-ucationonline.com/valuing-websites/
I've totally lost most respect for the guy.
From the video (http://www.ed-ucationonline.com/valuing-websites/)
2.45 - "If you put a 30 day challenge type site up on it, put it into traffic bug, and if you did nothing else, come back six weeks later, and you've got a PR3, PR4 Site"
Need i say more?
If he just admitted it was a sham, we got done in and nothing happened, no backlinks were generated (as hundreds have mentioned here and elsewhere), he'd still have my trust.
Ed provided us with two winners: WPD and Market Samurai. T-Bug, however, is a disappointment.
It was my understanding at the outset, that implementing T-Bug would improve my rankings via a number of approaches (bookmarking, RSS, etc.); one being the probability that I would gain back links.
To date, four months (1/3 of a year) and seven blog/sites later, and T-Bug is still reflecting ZERO links. Interestingly, I have been able to locate about 40 or 50 back links to my sites via other sources. Were they the result of T-Bug or were they there before I utilized T-Bug? I don't know.
As to rankings. Abysmal.
T-Bug 'Support' has not responded to my last three emails covering the past two weeks. My most recent email addressed the two previous emails, plus an additional 8 issues, some of which were also addressed in other messages on this forum.
As mentioned by someone earlier, he appears to be a one-man operation working out of his home. His lack of communications, either on his site with updates, or replying to an simple email is the primary reason I am dropping his service (or lack thereof).
I realize that this is in a beta mode, and that processes require time; but not at the rate of $19 per month (or more) with no information, nor updates, nor explanations. Silence is not necessarily golden.
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