Community Alert: Traffic Blazer

[vw98034]

We naively accepted our domain register's (Go daddy) recommendation to sign up the search engine submission service: Traffic Blazer. After more than a month, we haven't seen any single hit guided by the service.

It, however, would be unfair to say the service hasn't brought anything to us. We used a very private email address registered the service. Right after the registration, the email address received a significant , unprecedented number of spams. Is it a great service that we pay to get our email address into a spamer's DB, but nothing else. :mad:

[DesignersToolz]

That makes three things illegal there I believe...

1. False advertisement
2. Theft by deception
3. Spam


They could get into a lot of trouble...

[Nightfire]

Do they say how long it will take for the search engines to index you?
Did you see if you agreed to have third parties contact you when you signed up?
Submitting to search engines is easy, there's no need to pay someone to do it for you.

[liorean]

Also note that some of these search engine submission services are actually kept track of and their submissions degraded by, amongst others, Google and Inktomi ( together they own about 80% of the search engine market). I don't know whether TrafficBlazer is one such, but I know some are. Your best way of getting included in serch engines is to make sure you have valuable content, and that those with sites concerning that same type of content know of you and link to you.

[vw98034]

Do they say how long it will take for the search engines to index you?
Did you see if you agreed to have third parties contact you when you signed up?
Submitting to search engines is easy, there's no need to pay someone to do it for you.

- There is not such statement in regarding when the site would be indexed in search engines.
- There is not mentioning any third parties neither.
- We have time constrain and thought it would be a good service for our situation.

[vw98034]

That makes three things illegal there I believe...

1. False advertisement
2. Theft by deception
3. Spam


They could get into a lot of trouble...

False advertisement - They could argue that they did submit the site to search engines. Whether the site has any hits from those search engines or not were another matter.
Theft by deception - They could argue that they did provide the service they claimed.
Spam - They could argue that they never spam their customers, and there were not under their control for those search engines service spam if their customers indeed received any spams due to the service.