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by dankwizard 598 days ago
Sell it to someone inexperienced who wants to pick up a high traffic website. Show the stats of visitors, monthly hits, etc. DO NOT MENTION BOTS.

Easiest money you'll ever make.

(Speaking from experience ;) )

3 comments

Easy money but also unethical.

Sell something you know has a defect, going out of your way to ensure this is not obvious with the intent to sucker someone inexperienced...jikes.

As an inexperienced buyer I'd ask you to prove me those are real visitors and at least give me a breakup by country and region, if not also age, sex, income category.

Also I would ask you to show me how much profit have you made from those visitors. I have no need for a high number of visitors if that doesn't translate into profit.

> I would ask you to show me how much profit have you made from those visitors.

Perhaps they aren't running ads, but you would. So while they make zero profit, you could make lots.

> breakup by country and region

Could easily be done for bots too. Oh look, most of my visitors are from areas with data centers, probably engineers with high income.

> if not also age, sex

That would only work if the site requires accounts

> income category

How would that ever work

> (Speaking from experience ;) )

Assuming you were the buyer. Did they also ran an add clicking scheme on it, to even further inflate their profit?

https://github.com/CryptoidCoder/Selenium-Ad-Clicker

Is they were the buyer they'd have used ;(