Autosurf and Traffic Exchanges Will Get You Banned from AC

Traffic exchange sites and auto surf sites should not be used to increase traffic to your content on AC. The use of these types of services is banned because it does a disservice to the advertisers who are trying to reach customers for their products or services. The bonus cash each CP receives for every thousand page views is meant to be an incentive to drive legitimate traffic to your site. Legitimate traffic comes through search, links on related sites and viral links that originate with the people you know that you have shared your content with.

Many Content Producers may be confused by what constitutes a banned method of increasing pageviews. Some unscrupulous folks may think that a page view is a page view and will encourage you to sign up for a dubious service that promises to increase your page views and performance bonus. But you should avoid these services. Here are some examples of what is not permitted.

Click Parties
This is when a group of people get together to click on pages they want traffic on. It does not matter if they are CP's or not. Do not participate in or organize groups of people to click on your content or other CPs content. Feel free to tell your friends about your content, but don't tell your friends to click many times on your content.

Traffic exchange and Auto Surfs
Do not use traffic exchange services like Clickevolution.com. These services promise a network of people that will click on the pages you want in order to avoid the 'automated' clause of the terms of service. But content is meant to be viewed by people interested in the topic under discussion and advertisers want to reach those people. If traffic is not coming from people who are interested in the content on the page, rather they are simply clicking through then the traffic is illegitimate.

Robots
Do not use automatic page view generators or robots like clickmonkeys.com. Many of these sites may say that they are untraceable and indistinguishable from human traffic but believe me, we know.

Associated Content has a number of measures to ensure the legitimacy of traffic and all suspicious activity is flagged for review. Content Producers that use any illegitimate method to drive page views will be banned and lose any performance payment accrued. If you come across a new service or site that promises to increase page views and you are not sure wheather it is allowed or not then follow this rule of thumb, think like an advertiser. If you owned a business and wanted to advertise it, would you want to show your ads to the people coming from this service?

Remember, AC content is an investment that pays out continually, don't jeopardize that. Months of legitimate PV will pay out more than a month of fraudulent ones.