| Reason | Explanation |
| Traffic Leecher | This is actually not a cheat, just not a very smart/honest behaviour. This means a person registered for a trade but did not send any traffic, or sent very litte traffic. Usually I do not blacklist sites that registed only one trade this way. I blacklist only those who set up several trades like that. Sometimes those are just newbies without experience, who later grow up and get smarter. So consider banning these domains carefully. Some people use automatic registration scripts and signup for a lot of trades repititivelly still not sending any traffic - those I usually mark as abusive leechers and I suggest you ban them as well. |
| Idiot | Those are just trying to get some hits to their sites that have nothing to do with TGP/CJ and often are not even related to adult. So they register a trade with their non TGP sites into a lot of sites and obviously can never send you any hits. They often can be very annoying, using auto submit scripts. I call them idiots. |
| Junk/bad Languages/Countries | Comments like that mean that trader sends a lot (percentage is often specified) of traffic from countries that usually do not pay - China, South Korea, Russia, Brazil, etc. Also, sometimes it's a pure hitbot traffic without language spoofing (it's easy to spoof, but sometimes cheaters simply forget to set it up). In both cases you probably do not want to trade with such sites. |
| Exploit | This means that trader has a malicious code on his site that tries to infect user's PC or in some way temper with his browser. Sometimes it's just a tricky console built to penetrate anti-popup settings, but I blacklist it only if it affects the browser in some way (for example - freezes or hangs it up) |
| XX% hitbots | 100% hitbots doesn't mean I'm 100% sure this domain send hitbots. I always 100% sure when I call it hitbots. Percentage means how many hitbots my scripts detected from that domain. Hitbots means not human traffic. Sometimes it's just search engine spiders or suckers like Teleport, so I always ignore percentages less than 25% if they are not permanent. If I write 100% hitbots - this means the domain send 100% non-human traffic and not any single real hit. Some cheaters mix hitbots with real traffic, so percentage may be below 100%, but usually it's higher than 50% |
| IMG SRC cheat/Stupid Hitbots | Very simple cheat when someone puts your main page into IMG SRC field located somewhere on the page of the cheater. This causes your page to load (only code, not any images) and your script to count IN with a correct referrer. Your "out" can also be placed into img src to cause your script count fake outs, but in this case the referrer is incorect (i.e. it's still his domain, not yours) and most of scripts have a protection against it now, do not count the hits and hence most of them also trade by productivity, not by INs, they do not return. Sometimes it's IFRAME SRC, not IMG SRC, it doesn't make much difference. Worked earlier (before 2004-2005), mostly doesn't work now. So, very stupid. |
| Advanced Hitbots | There are several smart (and dirty) guys who have their own botnets - networks of infested user PCs (mostly through MS Internet Explorer holes) that can be used for several things - to send spam, to DDOS attack sites, to hide or to fake identity (i.e. as totally anonymous proxies - carders love them), to cheat PPC affiliate programs and finally to send hitbots to your CJ/TGP sites. Those hitbots are not different from ordinary surfers as they use IE to parse your pages and almost impossible to tell. Also, they usually go further to your trades and click there, mixing with real surfers, making even harder to see them. But they can be detected because of limited IP pool - botnets are not very big usually and hard to build after MS fixed most of their obvious IE security holes. There are only few of such advanced cheaters. Still, these guys can ruin your sites if you do not notice them in time. I suggest recording whois info and design layout for the sites I mark as "advanced" and use in future to tell their new domains. |
| Opener/Parent | Opener (or "parent") is a quite simple java script code that makes a really unpleasant thing. When a surfer clicks on your site, the trade opens in a NEW window. If this trader has opener/parent code on his page, it replaces URL in opener/parent (hence the name) window - i.e. in YOUR TGP/CJ window with some other URL - usually the URL of another cheater's site. This means that surfer sent to trader with this code will not see your site again and will not click on it anymore. This significantly lowers your internal productivity. Simply speaking, those guys steal your surfers. Do not mistake this thing for a console. This is not a console! It really kills your site! |
| Domain belongs to confirmed cheater | This means I already caught the guy on hitbots more than once and this domain has the same whois info. Usually cheaters create new domains all the time, as older get banned. I do not check whois info for every new domain indeed, but there are 2 or 3 cheaters who are such familiar to me that I can recognize them from their domain names already, and look at whois only to confirm my suspicions. And as you can see from the blacklist, these few registered quite a lot of domains... |
| Everyting else seems to be quite obvious from writtings. | |