Quote Originally Posted by tdstern View Post
So when 300,000 affiliates purchase traffic to be applied to the panels (ad spaces) that BBI has revenue rights to, and that traffic results in the ad contracts the ad networks being fulfilled, that has no value?
Terry - I want you to read this sentence you wrote, very slowly and very carefully. I'm not kidding, I'm trying to save you here and maybe one day you'll thank me.

Let's parse it real slow and stick with facts:

"So when 300,000 affiliates purchase traffic"

fact: it is impossible to purchase traffic on this scale.
fact: even if it were possible, let's dive into a brief discussion of what internet traffic is, and how it can be purchased:

Internet traffic consists of visitors to websites, non-robot, non-spider visitors -- human beings who have made a conscious decision to either click on a link or type a URL into their browser's address field and hit the 'enter' key.

To purchase traffic -- in other words to get human beings to visit websites which you desire them to visit -- you need to do one of two things. You need to either advertise on publisher websites and hope that something about your ad catches their attention and they click the link and visit your own site -- or you need to somehow otherwise get them to surf to your site. That is generally accomplished by mass emailing. "You have won an iPad! Just click here!" -- that sort of thing. Standing email newsletters is another way to do it, but they generally appeal to a certain demographic and are high cost and low ROI.

Those sites that advertise "buy traffic for your website" -- every single one of them is either running a click-farm simulator or a room full of people in a third world country paying them ten cents an hour to click on website links. Almost all publishers and networks (including Google) eventually blacklist their IP addresses.

Purchasing legitimate internet traffic is prohibitively expensive, and as stated could never scale to the level you would need to satisfy all those affiliates and their 'traffic packs' each month. BB makes it sound like there is some vast reservoir of internet traffic "out there", waiting to be put to use by their affiliates. This is simply not the case, it's false, it's impossible, it's illogical and even if it were possible the cost would immediately render the value proposition of this arrangement to be underwater.

The first phrase you wrote in that sentence is unquestionably incorrect.

"to be applied to the panels (ad spaces) that BBI has revenue rights to"

fact: No ad network in the world would hand over this kind of margin potential to BB.
fact: No ad network reserves ad space for one particular client (I'd say 'advertiser' but I don't even know what to call BB anymore), across their publisher base. The systems are based on a bidding/auction algorithm.

The second phrase you wrote in that sentence is unquestionably incorrect.

"and that traffic results in the ad contracts the ad networks being fulfilled"

fact: There is no "ad contract" around this. Publishers are not going to sit around waiting for BB affiliates to buy traffic (which is already proven false) and send that traffic to their sites.

The third phrase you wrote in that sentence is unquestionably incorrect.

"that has no value?"

This last phrase is correct.

Terry, these kinds of nonsensical claims about how the advertising business works and the relationship that BB has with these ad networks, and 300,000 affiliates buying all this "remnant traffic" to be deployed on "remnant advertising" -- it might work on a roomful of pensioners who still need to call their nephew when they need help finding the "any key" to press on their keyboard -- but for anyone who has even had a superficial experience working with a real advertising network or running a real business on the internet, it falls horribly short of reality.

If you really believe this, and I do not think that you do, you have been swindled and you are putting yourself at risk for future prosecution based on association with this scam.