Most professional live chat tool way sets comprise live visitor monitoring. It typically allows website agents to see who is browsing their website at a given moment, such data as IP address, Host Name, GEO location, referer, footsteps(visited pages) and computer explicit is provided for each browsing visitor real-time! This might be very valuable. We will not go into details and explicit case studies on live visitor monitoring method of live chat tool.
I do, however, would like to tell you a little story which you could find interesting.
I have published a new website for my new venture and went ahead and listed it in Yahoo! Directory, it’s $299.00 per year but well worth it if you’d need to get your business noticed promptly. The day Yahoo! Directory listed my site in the “new” element i received an interesting call:
“Hello, my name is Peter “, i purposely did not use any real names in this post, ” i would require to make available you a great pay per click program, only 10 cents per click! Have you heard about Red Z ?”
“No, i have not”
“RedZ.com?”
“No, sorry”
“Well, we are a ground-breaking search engine, with patent pending technology and millions of search queries served daily. We can give you one of the top 3 spots on RedZ.com for 10 cents per click! How does that sound?”
“It sounds too good to be true” - i responded.
“What is your main search term?”
I provided a very competitive, about $7.oo per click on Google AdWords search term i was interested in
“Good news we have one spot available!” - said Peter - “Might you please go to RedZ.com and search for your search term?”
I did. One of my competitors’ site came up first, it looked slick, sort of desire WIndows Vista running programs scroller, showing website front pages as thumbnails.
“Looks good” said I. It did look good, and for 10 cents i was willing to try. I provided my credit card and it was charged $500.00 for 5000 clicks from people looking RedZ.com for the term i purchased the clicks for.
I was spending a lot more on Google, about $1000-$2000 monthly for 200-400 clicks, so it was a no brainer type of a deal.
Next morning i have been emailed login particulars to login to RedZ.com and see my click stats. To my absolute surprise RedZ (redzee) reported 150 clicks sent in the last 12 hours! What! How! Amazing! I am rich! Bye bye competitors! I won! I will buy all my search terms i am competing for on Google from RedZ and will purchase a house in Maui in 10 months! Gotta phone my wife and tell her to quit her job!
A thousand pleasing thoughts went through my mind…
I logged in to my business’ back-end with anticipation of at least 5 orders (2-3% conversion i might definitely leave with). To my surprise there were no orders. Hmmm… Maybe a glitch?
I went ahead and logged in to my LiveHelpNow (livehelpnow.net) panel, it is customer service tool i use, it gives live visitor monitoring. LiveHelpNow reported 150 referrals from RedZ.com, so RedZ panel reporting the truthful number of clicks, what is wrong then!??? I started investigating further and LiveHelpNow showed that each visitor referred by RedZ visited front page of my website and immediately left. 100% bounce rate from RedZ visitors…what an upset, that was exactly what i was afraid of. Always belief your first instinct, what appears to be too good to be true, is probably not true. What a scam! I was pissed.
I called up Peter from RedZ and requested a full refund.
“What’s wrong? Why?” - asked Peter
“Well, RedZ sent 150 robots buddy” - said i - “100% bounce rate. You are buying your traffic!”
“I don’t comprehend…” - said Peter - ” what makes you think that!?”
“Please go to LiveHelpNow.net and log in” - i said and gave Peter my username and password - “Do you see how it offers every visitor referred from RedZ.com?”
“Yes”
“May possibly you tell me how many pages each of them visited of my website?”
“1″
“Which means the traffic redz is sending bounces 100%, correct?”
“Yes, but maybe this software does not report it correctly”
I asked Peter to go to RedZ.com, type the term i purchased and go to my site, browse a couple of pages and then see what LiveHelpNow panel reports.
He did that and to his surprise every move he made on my site was recorded and reported by LiveHelpNow tool.
Next day i got full refund from RedZ.
This is how live chat tool detects click fraud and how it saved me $500!
