Rapid Mass Traffic: How Does It Work?

I got a promotional email today from someone who presumably is an affiliate of the Rapid Mass Traffic product. Normally I just delete these types of emails and unsubscribe from the list, but this email caught my attention. It was GOOD. Here’s how it started out:

Hi  Barbra,

I want you to be honest with me and to yourself…

… are you ready?

Do you really have the patience, time, energy and money to keep on blogging, writing, begging for JV’s, paying for backlinks, using more and more software, taking endless seo lessons … week after week, year after year?

I know I certainly don’t.

After all, isn’t that why you want to make money online … to have more time and more freedom?

Can you really say you have that right now? Is all that time and effort you’re spending trying to get a few hundred visitors per day REALLY worth it? I mean, is it really PAYING off for you?

Against my better judgement I clicked the link to view the Rapid Mass Traffic sales letter. Like many internet sales letters, it went on and on and on. It promised a secret technique that would “skyrocket traffic and earnings to a whole new level!!” And yet nowhere did it actually give any idea of what this magic technique is.

A little more digging and I found out in the comments section of another affiliates blog that the magic bullet is something called PPV. Having no idea what PPV is, I did some research and found this explanation:

Here is what ppv marketing is. Adware. I know you have heard the term, but may not be familiar with what it is. Have you ever had a virus like issue where, whenever you type a url in the address box or tried to perform a google search, and a new, seemingly random browser window opens up over your intended result? That is adware. I have never experienced it personally, but had it happen on a work computer several years ago after a co-worker downloaded the file sharing application kazaa. The two ways it can plant itself on a users computer is by the user downloading an application like kazaa, where in the fine print… let me correct myself… in the minuscule print, you agree to allow them to show you advertisements in exchange for their free application. The other way that a user can have this happen is, for no better term, a virus. A virus known as adware.

The way ppv marketing works: An affiliate advertiser signs up with an adware company and from there it works in much the same way as google adwords. They can bid on the same keywords as they would on google, and when the user of an infected computer performs a search on that term, the user will get their normal google search results, but the adware causes their computer to open a browser on top of their google search results with their ad.  Source: ppv marketing – what is it? | Make Money Online at Natespost.com

Yuck. The PPV method sounds spammy and definitely not something that I want to be associated with. As a result, I won’t be buying Rapid Mass Traffic.

Update: there is an informative thread on the Warrior Forum about this product.

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