Traffic trading and traffic from search
 

What is the current situation with traffic trading scripts and programs and traffic from google.com and search, based on your experience. I know that SmartCj.com sites have been getting banned for over two years, and it is probably better to stay away from this program all together. Smart Thumbs and similar programs dont seem to be affected, by itself, but if this gets combined with some kind of traffic trading software, like Trade Expert or Trade Pulse, the situation is more or less the same - sites not showing for "site:domain.com" in google.com.

SmartCj.com script sites have been getting banned for "Pure spam" penalty. The overall factors of this can be probably narrowed down to thin content and linking to already affected sites (something like a bad neighborhood effect). Are there any other factors, are your sites ok (percentage wise, lets say 200 ST sites, how does it look?), and how to approach working on this as of now / second part of 2015.

If there is traffic from search to a network of lets say 50 of these, and steadily, this is obviously a lot better, so it would be good to have it working, and the traffic from search in place.

Just build unique and fresh content, I am sure visitors will find the way to your site.

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I am talking about a Smart Thumbs site with thumbnails, which looks like millions of other sites that are out there, and it is hard to make it into something different than this. I was thinking about different ways of modifying this model, for better seo results, and at the same time being able to grow these sites with traffic from trades. I am not sure what this could be though, exactly. In terms of seo, I guess I would need to add text, which has a value for search engines, but I am not sure if I will be able to modify the script, and whether it would make sense too (I can add alt tags, and a description through the software already, and I will be looking into this).

I think that unique / hand written text on tgps is one of the factors, which prevents these sites from getting banned from google.com. I was thinking about adding Wordpress blogs with some posts to all domains, but this takes work, and I am not sure if it is worth it too. It seems like new tgp model is needed, in order for it to work with traffic trading + search. If this would work, a lot of money can be made, I would say...

Probably focus on smaller number of sites, instead of like 100 to start, and make it more seo friendly / better for search, based on all the seo factors.

still you mush need to drive high traffic to your site to make site show up on google search......

So Google looks at the amount of traffic that gets to the site, and rankings are based on this? I've never heard of this, and it sounds like it would be a new thing, so I am not sure.

How would the know the amount of traffic, except from the amount of traffic from their site? They are not looking at sites like Compete.com or SimilarWeb.com, so how would this work?

Our TGP's are still alive on a combination of Smart Thumb and traffic trade script! Also site is listed on google and getting good number!

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