Is there a better alternative to trafficadbar?

[Affiliates259]

I tried out the website, but I've come to realize that it's just bot traffic visiting my site. There's no interaction, just a quick visit to the homepage and then they leave in less than 30 seconds.

 

[Graybeard]

Are they an *Official* Resource here at Affiliatefix?
I hope they were cheap ...
On the other side --Over 96+% of Push and Pop traffic bounces --they may be irritated humans too

Just because traffic bounces does not mean they are bots necessarily ...

Do you have enough deposit left to do any more campaigns?

 

[T J Tutor]

re they an *Official* Resource here at Affiliatefix?

NOPE!

Over 96+% of Push and Pop traffic bounces

It's been so abused and over used in the past, but these past few years it's played out and saturated with bots that have destroyed the space. I was on another board recently while on a research mission and it is mostly a Push/Pop community. The traffic complaints were in almost every discussion.

Just because traffic bounces does not mean they are bots necessarily

No, but with that particular traffic source it is more bots than normal traffic bounces.

More click fraud tools are needed that support all of the traffic source variations we have available. One of the issues with those tools and remedies currently available is that many of the better tools require a much higher ad spend monthly than most of us implement. Lunio, for example, won't extend their services to anyone with less than a $50k a month ad spend. Click Cease only works with Meta & Google, others have similar types of obstacles.

 

[Graybeard]

It's not that hard LOL 15 min with ChatGPT 4 and we have the script

~/ip_project/ASN_locater$ php ASN4IP.php
52.88.62.60, 16509, AMAZON-02
54.212.241.115, 16509, AMAZON-02
107.189.10.175, 53667, PONYNET
92.205.185.52, 21499, Host Europe GmbH
176.100.243.133, 35526, Smart Technology LLC
116.212.191.4, 207990, HostRoyale Technologies Pvt Ltd
116.212.191.4, 207990, HostRoyale Technologies Pvt Ltd
116.212.191.4, 207990, HostRoyale Technologies Pvt Ltd
116.212.191.4, 207990, HostRoyale Technologies Pvt Ltd
107.189.8.238, 53667, PONYNET
185.41.240.25, 50304, Blix Solutions AS
205.169.39.195, 209, CENTURYLINK-US-LEGACY-QWEST
65.154.226.166, 54538, PAN0001
50.3.86.243, 49532, Eonix Corporation
34.98.143.137, 396982, GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM
34.98.143.139, 396982, GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM
3.83.248.75, 14618, AMAZON-AES
3.142.248.232, 16509, AMAZON-02
18.117.134.132, 16509, AMAZON-02
104.197.88.27, 396982, GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM
34.98.143.138, 396982, GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM
34.98.143.138, 396982, GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM

**updated the ad network traffic error --all the 'referrals' --big error! I haven't paid them yet --they send all trash so I see what they do WTF??? sample was a harbinger of their future performance?

these are bots (VPN or Proxy maybe) Looks like hosting companies to me.

<?php
require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';
use GeoIp2\Database\Reader;

// Path to your GeoLite2-ASN.mmdb file
$dbPath = 'GeoLite2-ASN.mmdb';
$asnDbReader = new Reader($dbPath);

// Path to the file with the IP addresses
$ipFile = 'ad_ip_test.csv';

// Generate the filename for the results
$resultsFileName = 'ip_results-' . date('Y-m-d.H:i:s') . '.csv';
// Open the file for writing
$resultsFileHandle = fopen($resultsFileName, "w");
if (!$resultsFileHandle) {
    die("Failed to create the file: $resultsFileName\n");
}

// Write the header row to the results file
fputcsv($resultsFileHandle, ['IP', 'ASN', 'ASN Organization']);

// Open the file with IP addresses
$handle = fopen($ipFile, "r");
if ($handle) {
    while (($ip = fgets($handle)) !== false) {
        // Remove any whitespace
        $ip = trim($ip);

        try {
            $asnRecord = $asnDbReader->asn($ip);
            // Prepare the data to write
            $data = [
                $ip,
                $asnRecord->autonomousSystemNumber,
                $asnRecord->autonomousSystemOrganization
            ];
            // Write to console
            echo implode(", ", $data) . "\n";
            // Write to file
            fputcsv($resultsFileHandle, $data);
        } catch (\GeoIp2\Exception\AddressNotFoundException $e) {
            echo "IP: $ip - Address not found in the database.\n\n";
            fputcsv($resultsFileHandle, [$ip, 'Not found', '']);
        } catch (\Exception $e) {
            echo "An error occurred for IP: $ip - " . $e->getMessage() . "\n\n";
            fputcsv($resultsFileHandle, [$ip, 'Error', $e->getMessage()]);
        }
    }
    fclose($handle);
} else {
    // Error opening the file.
    echo "Error opening the IP file: $ipFile\n";
}

// Close the results file
fclose($resultsFileHandle);

Bang --this is possible to do when the IP hits the server --best way is an allowed Residential-real business ISP list --not allowed 'servers|data|datacenter|host' at this point it gets more complex to control access. I think this would be rather easy to audit the traffic after the fact.

Like I say short time GPT AI project to share --HAPPY HUNTING