advice Real or Fake Traffic

try www.siteworthtraffic.com and alexa

You could also ask for guest access to their analytics.

domainwest said:

try www.siteworthtraffic.com and alexa

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Just stay away this type of bot traffic worth site,

@Isac

You need to do some research, use Archive.org and SEMRush to get traffic details.

3 types of type-in traffic,

1) Good keyword domain - the best

2) Similar keyword domains that are longer or not .com,

3) Back-links.

You should be able to investigate what kind of traffic a name gets. If it's too good to be true, it is.

GD stats is just for fun... they don't filter anything.
Forget about it.

+ some sellers at GD generate the traffic stats artificially...

It all depends on the company and what stats they are showing you. For all you know, that traffic stat can be bots, incentivized, etc.. You have to understand their methodology for stat counts.

One more thing: You can't depend on a 3rd party stat provider because they won't have accurate data. Wherever the the DNS is pointed to for the specific domain is who is going to have the real stats.

Honestly, I would not trust any automated stats for an expiring or otherwise available domain name at this time. After starting to host a lot of normal non-expiring "for sale" domains myself instead of using parking with "domain for sale" links, I began to periodically review raw access logs. OMG. Well, I blocked obvious things like requests to wp-login (bots that are looking for outdated wordpress installations), blocked all IP ranges of French OVH hosting (main home for bots), blocked some other things - but there are still tons of bots who are changing IPs and everything very frequenty, and no automated system can block them all. So they are all counted. I'd say that only a human can perform better calculations with raw logs in hand, but even in this case some bot traffic will not be classified as such - the bots are trying to hide themseleves, use fake browser strings, fake referrals and so on.

How to determine "real traffic" is really tricky.

I'm kinda in the process of making my own server scripts to make some kinda estimate on traffic. It is really tricky, both conceptually (to define "real traffic"), and to implement.

Traffic quality is dependent on a number of factors including:

• The longterm stability of the traffic.
• The ability to monetize the traffic.
• The bounce rate of the traffic.
• The geo location of the traffic.
• The source of the traffic.
• The cost of the traffic.

Consider the following to identify whether the traffic to your website is fake or real -

Heatmap Monitoring - Heatmaps inform you about what your visitors are doing when they’re on your site and so, are pretty useful for marketing in general, and for user experience optimization. You can track if the user scrolls and how much time they spend viewing portions of your site, talong with the position of the mouse and the location of clicks, and also can identify both holes in your site design and missed opportunities

Bot Traps - Set up a “welcome page” to your site to trap bots, but be careful. Interstitials like that can cause issues with actual customer retention. Make sure to test on a small scale to make sure that it both successfully traps bots, and that it doesn’t drive away your real customers.

Don't trust it.