The Hidden Face Of Giveaway Winners - Case Study

If you are a regular reader of my blog, then you might have noticed that more than 30 days was there for the $10 Giveaway to end. But, i just deleted that way to get traffic and subscribers by offering giveaways the moment i realized the disadvantages. Indeed, offering giveaways are good for your blog in many ways, but what if someone misuses your giveaway . What if someone tries to win the giveaway by making many referrals illegally .As an experiencer of this i recommend you to never use Punchtab as it is prone to fake entries which are generated through fake traffic bots .I too was really excited after i got more than 1900 visitors one day. Usually i used to get only in the range of 900-1200 . But, i thought many people were coming to participate in the giveaway . My belief was ought to be right, till i was amazed to see some things which you might now, but you might not have understood .

Punchtab is a giveaway manager. But, they are really not at all good. Me and my friend filed a ticket at their support regarding this fake entries generated through fake traffic, but they did never reply to it .Okay, i will now explain the situation fully !Like every other blogger, i thought of offering a giveaway on my blog. You can check it out here. 

The award was $10 Paypal cash and a sidebar banner . Many people were making entries. At that time i was getting only 900-1200 pageviews daily . But after offering the giveaway, i saw that my traffic reached 1900 one day . I thought my giveaway was performing well . But, my assumption was wrong . It was FAKE TRAFFIC . One guy was using a traffic bot to generate illegal referral points on the giveaway to get to the first.

Unfortunately, only after he made more than 1000 entries, i came to know of this .Still, he was doing it. I had to delete the giveaway to escape. I don't know what will happen to my website now. Will Google believe i used fake traffic. Guys, that why i recommend you not to use Punchtab. There are a lot of alternatives out there like RaffleCopter etc.

Now let me tell you in detail. After i came to know of this, i started researching a lot . A researched and researched and finally i got success . It is Jingling.exe . A Chinese Traffic Bot which sends fake traffic to any URL from different IP addresses. He used this to send traffic to me . I don't know how it will affct my blog , but i know it will affct my blog somehow.It is a software . And you know one thing, it really works .

I also stated it to those stupid Punchtab officials who doesn't even reply . Now, Fake traffic is bad for your blog . He was using traffic to that Punchtab referral link which redirects to my giveaway . Actually , he was the winner and i had to discard him because he was trying to ruin my blog and get away with my cash . Really rude, right ?

I'm not accusing anyone, but i am informing such things are possible

Now , do you want to know who it is ? Wait, let me think a bit if i want to expose him . And, i know you are reading it, you fake entry maker. Well, not one . There are two of such illegal entry maker. Once before i knew all this, he asked to me in the chat , who has the most entries. Unfortunately, i checked and saw that it was he himself . I reported it to him .

Don't believe me. Well, now i'm going to expose them in front of you. And i also have some evidence against them . But, promise me first that you will never ruin your hard work by using the punchtab plugin to offer Giveaways . You see this is a major loophole of  Punchtab services. Whats the value of offering giveaways if anybody can win it using fake traffic to the referral link . Hope you understand !

Punchtab is good, but they will be better if they remove the referral system. So, you see anyone can win any giveaway by making fake traffic and fake entries .I will not expose those villains because they might send fake traffic again to my blog  . I had no other way, but not to expose them because of some advice from other bloggers. 

I don't know if he will send fake traffic again to my blog any more . But i have taken protective measures against this. I have blocked some IP's and did something else . If you want to know who they are , i will tell to you privately. Because i value others privacy higher than mine whoever thay are !