The 10-Day Experiment - Day 2 Results

I have the results in for day 2 of my 10-Day Experiment. If you are not familiar with this experiment, for $77.00, I purchased 100,000 unique site visitors from the USA from a company called ‘www.advertyz.com’ over a 10-day period. You can read more by clicking here (http://www.tatumba.com/blog/archives/108).

I meant to start this campaign at 10000 visitors per day for 10 days but because of a stupid math error I used 1000 for the first 2 days of the campaign. Although a major screw-up the data being generated is still useful, because it is all relative.

Beginning with tomorrow the report reflect my campaign of 10,000 visitors per day.

I am a bit confused this morning. Maybe I need to shake the cobwebs loose or something. When I compare the numbers from Google Analytics with my GoDaddy stats they do not correlate. Further when I compare the stats from the two of those to the stats generated by my account at www.advertyz.com, they are all different.

Why? Google may be easier to explain. Perhaps their algorithms are sophisticated enough to filter out the traffic being generated by this pay service?

My GoDaddy Stats may better reflect the traffic. Assuming that one page request = one visitor then the numbers almost agree…but not 100%. Again I do not know why. I am showing a difference of 159 visitors.

There is no filtering going on that I am aware of. The only reason I can come up with is that there may be a time zone effect coming into play. If so, this will work itself out in the end.

Now my stats from the www.advertyz.com. You will have to a bit of deductive reasoning here. The image has 42 visitors of day 3 results included, but there were 1000 visitors served with my ad on day 2.

So what conclusions do I draw? The waters have been muddied today. No numbers agree with each other but I am hoping that they start to balance out over the course of this experiment.

Alexa Ratings

With respect to my Alexa Ratings I shot up from 1.2 million to 1. 0 million in 24 hours so this ad campaign seems to be delivering in that respect. The people of Nepal seem to like this site. Tatumba is the 106^th most popular site there.

www.advertyz.com Affiliate Program Troubles

As I reported yesterday, they had not responded to problems I experienced with respect to registering with their affiliate program. As you recall I registered with their help desk and then, based on a posting that they were having trouble with their help desk system, I sent a direct email to their support.

As of today more than 48 hours has passed and still no word on what is going on. It seems they are oh so eager to take a persons money but not too helpful with respect to people who want to promote their product.

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