Excuse me, but what the HELL IS GOING ON???? It's like really making me CRAZY!! Is Google bonkers, abusive, or just catchin' while catch can?? Is it just me? Did anyone else notice the horrendous abuse they are subjecting us bloggers to, or what?
Way back in January when I first started using "traffic" sites they were like, "Hello, how may I kiss your ass, for free of course. And "I'll even give you free stuff and a percentage if you recommend my ass kissing, stupid, and annoying traffic site to all your oblivious, turnip brained blogger friends. You've heard of the pyramids, right? So I'll let you participate in the first ever to even look like it's gonna work pyramid. Oh, and by the way, oops, we accidentally purged your account because we have brass ones. We figured that we'd make you pay, now that you're hooked on a couple hundred blog visitors a day, and have reached the 6th tier in the pyramid. Of course we didn't back up our files, that would defeat our main purpose of ripping you off as long as we can. Oh, and another oops, my sister-site is run by the same dude that runs this one, so in a few days your other traffic site Will purge you, too and we can get away with it because you agreed to the agreement. What a shame it was so long and you didn't want to read it so you accepted it without reading the part that we can change any damn thing we want, drop your account, or cancel the least expensive of our programs to try to get some more money out of you dumb ass bloggers." OK, those are the obvious things that they want us to let ride.
Once we are all back up, giving them more money for a "free" traffic site, and doing all the repairs and upgrades that they so nicely "accidentally" deleted they scam us covertly. Have you ever checked the amount of traffic they say we are getting with any other traffic counter?? I have. Typepad has a feature that you can use to check the traffic on your blogs. One of my blogs, for example, had about 80 visits one day. The traffic site "Advertising and Selling" statistics said I got 145 visits. I've even emailed them several times about this dilemma and never heard anything back. I even suggested that maybe I was getting hijacked somehow. No answer, no answer, no answer.
This wonderful wide world of webbing is getting totally ridiculous, uncaring and even the "free" stuff isn't free anymore. Not only that, but now we get to see the commercials that annoy us on TV on the once commercial free internet and -- we are asked to pay to see these commercials along with the information we requested.
Heaven forbid we want to make any money ourselves! Every time you turn around it's another fee and another fee and another fee until what could have been just isn't. Ain't it amazing???
Thanks for the comment on my site. I look forward to reading more of yours.
Posted by: Melody | September 22, 2005 at 07:29 PM
You Go Girl!! It is out of control. Great Post, you should feel a little better now that you've vented.
Posted by: Janet | September 22, 2005 at 08:45 PM
Hi Trudie,
I couldn't agree with you more
and the really annoying policy they have of never answering any mail because they are much too important and busy to bother with the paeons
Posted by: toodles | September 23, 2005 at 07:28 PM
I agree with you fully there! You've gotta be more and more weary about which programmes you sign up to nowadays!
Posted by: Adam | September 25, 2005 at 10:07 AM
And yet I came across your site through blogexplosion.
I'm just saying.
Posted by: Kunstemaecker | September 30, 2005 at 04:17 AM