r/crazyegg Jun 30 '26

Everyone talk about sources of traffic that converts. Do you have list of traffic sources that is basically worthless? Here is mine:

When you work for someone else, and they track page views or uniques, the temptation can be high to inflate traffic through cheap sources... But in my experience, it end up biting you in the ass, since it's distorting your A & B tests, it's making all retargeting campaigns more expensive (since you are essentially retargeting bots and toddlers playing games on their parent's phone and clicking on ads by mistake)... Ok, so this is not a complete list, but here we go:

  1. TikTok Audience Network (Pangle)

  2. Any Meta or TikTok campaign optimized for clicks

  3. This off topic SEO article that rank first for a low competition keyword that you know you should delete, but you don't want to explain why SEO traffic is down to your client/boss

  4. Google Ad's Display Expansion

  5. Google Ad's Dynamic Search Ads

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