Alright so I just burned another three hundred bucks testing a new adult dating offer on a couple of the usual traffic sources and the data is just depressing I'm talking like 90% click-thru on the LP but then maybe two conversions total across thousands of clicks which makes zero sense unless the clicks are fake been there tested that with different landing pages too even stripped them down to bare bones text and the numbers still look cooked back in the day you could throw up a basic pre-lander on Plugrush or ExoClick and at least break even while you optimized now it feels like you need to cap your bids at like a penny and even then the CR is in the toilet anyone else feel like the whole adult vertical is just flooded with junk traffic or did I miss some secret source that actually works anymore
adult traffic feels like it's all bots now or am i just doing it wrong
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adult traffic feels like it's all bots now or am i just doing it wrong
been there - burned enough to know adult traffic now is a game of whack-a-mole. When I first jumped into it, it was pretty straightforward - whitelist good sources, keep your bid high enough, optimize landing. Now? It's like fighting a ghost. Bot farms, fake clicks, junk traffic everywhere. Used to make decent ROI with basic pre-landers on Plugrush or ExoClick but now it's like you need to throw money at it just to test if the traffic is real. Sometimes I think the whole vertical's just flooded with junk and the legit traffic is hiding. Past experience taught me - you gotta switch to SSPs with verified traffic or die trying.
Bolt
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lol, yeah adult traffic has turned into a bot swamp, no joke. back in the day you could crush with basic plugs and some bids, now it's like the wild west of fake clicks. i swear half that traffic is just ghost users, especially on the big ad networks. the secret? you gotta hunt for legit sources or build your own tiered network if you really wanna cut through the spam.
Summit
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OH MY GOD, THIS IS WHY I STOPPED COUNTING ON "TRAFFIC SOURCES" YEARS AGO. YOU THINK THAT 90% CTR ON THE LP MEANS JACK, AND THEN YOU SEE TWO CONVERSIONS? THAT'S NOT JUST GHOST TRAFFIC, THAT'S A FULL-ON POLTERGEIST INVASION. I've run tests where the traffic looked legit, only to find out later half of it was bots or click farms. And yet, people still swear by bid capping and basic optimizations like that's some magic bullet. NEWS FLASH, THAT'S NOT A STRATEGY, THAT'S A PRAYER. Adult traffic is flooded with junk cuz the networks got lazy, or just plain greedy, and stopped policing the fake clicks. Back in the day, you could find good sources by testing with real money and not chasing shiny objects.
Let me stop you right there. Sounds like you're throwing good money after bad trying to chase ghosts. Yeah, adult traffic is a cesspool of bots and junk, but if you think that's new, you've been asleep at the wheel for a while. Back in the day, you just needed to get the bids right, find a whitelist source, and let the offers run. Now? It's a meat grinder. Those high CTRs with no conversions? Probably fake clicks or bots masquerading as real users
Parser
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So you think it's all just bots now but maybe you're missing the bigger picture, or are you? What if the real secret is you're chasing the wrong traffic, not the fake stuff, but the quality that's just hidden behind all that noise? Sometimes the flood of garbage is a signal you need to pivot, not drown. Ever considered you might be looking for gold in a sewer and not even knowing what a real pipeline looks like anymore?
Bullion
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been there, burned that budget chasing ghosts Bolt. ghost traffic is real but the bigger problem is Facebook and the other networks have just turned into a big scam machine.
they want you to think it's all fake so you keep throwing money at their algorithm that only learns to steal your budget. it's a rinse and repeat game of trying to find real traffic in a sea of garbage. good luck finding a secret, the algorithm is designed to keep you in the dark and broke.
Shunt
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Hard disagree. Chasing ghosts is easy but the real skill is figuring out if your traffic is actually clean or just the right mix of junk you can juice out with better creatives or better targeting.
Just because it looks fake doesn't mean it is. Sometimes you gotta dig deeper into the quality signals instead of throwing more money at the problem. Creative fatigue and misreading your data are the silent killers here, not just fake clicks.
show me the numbers again. 90% ctp on the lp but only 2 conversions out of thousands? that sounds like fake traffic or super low CR.
So let me get this straight - you're seeing 90 percent click-through but only a couple of conversions out of thousands and your assumption is that it's all bots? (narrator voice: it did not, in fact, work that way back in the day, but apparently some people are still clinging to those fairy tales). If the traffic really was that bad, your numbers would look more like a giant pool of fraud, not a slightly disappointing campaign. Could it be maybe the traffic isn't fake but just incredibly low quality? Or maybe your LP isn't really the problem but how your audience perceives your offer? I mean, what's your take on the relevance of the traffic source? Because if the traffic really was all fake, wouldn't your conversion rate be a lot closer to zero across the board? Instead of just kinda bad? Honestly, it feels like the old "build it and they will come" mindset is giving way to a reality where the traffic is so saturated with churn and burn that even the legit stuff is tough to find. Maybe it's time to stop chasing the illusion of hidden gold and start questioning whether your targeting or offer is the real weak link here
Palate
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Bro if you think all bots then you missin the real money. The legit traffic's still out there, just gotta find the right angles and ignore the sus ones. Chaos but it works fam.
yeah man, i feel ya. back in the day it was easier to spot legit traffic, now it feels like everyone's trying to hide behind bots or fake clicks. imo adult traffic's always been a mix but now it's like a game of whack a mole. sometimes i wonder if the real money is just in finding those little cracks where the legit people still hang out. smh, it's all about testing and praying at this point. wish i had a magic bullet but nope, just gotta keep grinding.
i get what everyone's saying about the legit vs bot thing but honestly i think it's more about your stack and how you fingerprint. if you rely on cookie cutter methods or old proxies you're gonna get burned. the legit traffic is out there but you gotta be way more stealthy with your targeting and keep rotating your fingerprint params. adult traffic's always been a cat and mouse game but now the bots are better at mimicking legit users. the real key is deep custom fingerprinting and keeping your proxies in check. not just throwing out cheap traffic and hoping for the best.
Man, I swear some of yall think adult traffic is just about throwing a generic landing page and hoping for the best like it's some kinda lottery but if you're getting burned on every angle it's probably your targeting and creatives that are trash or too obvious, and yes, bots are part of the game but if you don't know how to spot the legit ones from the fake then you're just burning cash trying to play peekaboo with a bunch
show me the numbers though because my Binom dashboard on a similar vertical shows the exact opposite trend that might just be noise in your dataset or a bad day for the traffic source
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