General Concept
Traffic Python sells itself as a viral traffic generator. Like Google it tries to create both advertisers and publishers, whereby the user will likely be both.
As publisher you create links that get channelled through Traffic Python. Such links will display ads in a rather neat way at the bottom of a page. When a visitor clicks that ad, he will get sent to the website the advertiser has indicated. That website opens up in a new browser window. For each click you the provider of the link will get 10 credits that translate to a one time display of your ad. Note: you exchange displays for clicks while you get the short end of the stick.
On the advertiser side, you define your own ad that will be presented in that same animated bottom display of someone else’s link. In the free version you only get to type in text. The clearly more attractive graphical version where you can upload pictures (like banners) is only available if you upgrade.
The viral aspect:
You also function as an affiliate to Traffi Python and receive commissions on the sign ups of other users. Depending on the level of your sign up you will get 2 to 5 levels of downline users to help you generate traffic credits that in turn will translate into “free” traffic for you. The idea is to create a large downline that will then create lots of traffic for yourself plus a residual income on the downline member fees. The percentage of your commission varies with the level of your sign-up (so far I have seen between 25 – 50% commission).
Traffic:
Is targeted to the extent that the advertiser can indicate the categories under which his ads should be displayed.
The publisher, too, indicates which categories his link represents. So in theory advertisers should get only targeted ads displayed. Right?
Wrong! Here there is a flaw in the system: Since it is up to the publisher to indicate his categories there is really no control of what gets displayed where. An unethical publisher could indicate all categories to get the largests possible numbers of ads to display. (After all, the publisher does not know what happens if there is no ad to display.) Of course, he will only get credited if the ads get clicked, and that should encourage him to not waste his adspace with ads that will likely not be clicked, but there is really no control over this.
Purchase Traffic:
You can increase your stack of credits by purchasing one time credit boosts or recurring monthly credits at prices that range from $ 50.- per 1000 ad views to $3.35 per 1000 ad views. Note that these prices are for ad views and not click throughs.
Traffic Python claims that the click through rates for their non optimized simple text ads range from 15 to 19%. In other words the cost per click would be between $0.33 and $0.018. Not included in this calculation are the monthly fees for the various member levels.
Member Levels:
Gold membership is free and gives you text ads and no stats.
Platinum membership costs $15.- monthly and adds one mlm level and free ad displays (500 per month)
Diamond membership costs $35.- monthly and adds one more mlm level and 1000 free ad displays per month.
more levels?
Promotional material:
This is the chapter Traffic Python excels in. The material ranges from a promovideo, a fancy peel away ad, prewritten blog entries (reviews, which are definitely different from mine…) to give aways, graphics, you name it, it is here. The material is so well done that it is almost worth taking a look at what can be done to promote really anything.
Bonuses:
A link leads you to unannounced bonuses. The page opens in a rather unprofessional page that has nothing to do with Traffic Python. The page lists several products, one of which promises “featured downloads”. Unfortunately, you need to log in and again, your login credentials don’t work. The statement “If you experience login trouble, check your inbox for an email with your password.” does not help, because I have never received such a mail.
Process of Getting Started
The starting process is simple. Sign up, confirm and you get to play with the ads a bit. When you notice that you cannot color your text the background or upload pictures, you are disappointed for the first time. You don’t think that the ads you can create are going to be attractive enough to compete against the very attractive and animated Traffic Python ad that gets shown alongside with your ad. You understand that the Traffic Python ad will help you create your downline so you don’t mind cohosting that Traffic Python ad too much.
But you are sure that you need to upgrade to increase the quality of your own ad. The upgrade will cost $15.- per month, but you get a full money back guarantee for 30 days, so the risk is limited.
Upgrading is – again – a breeze with a PayPal payment. Before you know it, you own 5000 credits that should translate into 500 adviews.
So you start to play around with your own ads, create a graphic and upload it to your ad section. Again, that is easy. The correct measures for the graphical banner that will fill the entire ad space are 650 x 100 pixels. That indication was missing but with a little trying I found out.
The preview function works perfectly, you now see your ad in a preview at the bottom of the screen and it looks good.
Next step is the approval by Traffic Python. Each ad needs to get manually approved. As I am working from a different time zone, I waited for several hours for that ad to be approved, the second ad that I had placed, is still pending another few hours later. Hmmm.
The first ad that now has been approved for roughly 5 hours indicates that it had been displayed 5 times. Google Analytics reports at the same time 4 referrals from trafficpython. I think that for 3 out of those 4 I was responsible myself since I had clicked my own ad in the preview mode (probably costing me ad view credits). So clearly, something is going wrong with the rate ads get displayed. I have credits for 500 displays on my account but they don’t move. So what is wrong.
Contact / Support
Traffic Python can be reached by a ticket system that is run by think BIG Publications, LLC, which is probably the mother of Traffic Python. Unfortunately, you are not recognized as a user of Traffic Python when you try to log in under your user credentials, instead you have to register again and then place your ticket.
2 hours later (now) that ticket has not been attended to yet. So I am waiting to hear how the display speed of my ads could be increased. Is it possible that there is not enough traffic to go around?
Jump in time: It is now 1 day later. An e-mail response to my query indicates that I need to create more ads. More ads will generate more hits.
Now, that is really silly, because I like my ad, in fact I had someone create the graphics for it, I don’t want to have to add more ads. So I send back a mail to support asking how to get more ad displays and what would I need to to do if I wanted to purchase more credits (like 200’000 credits for 20’000 ad displays).
Unfortunately no respons within the following 2 days, so I write another ticket. 1 day later, I get the stereotype answer, I need to create more ads.
This is usually the point in a relationship when I throw the towel and decide that some companies are just not worth my time or patience. For the sake of this review, I responded one more time back to support to ask how many ads I would be required to create in order to have those 200’000 credits used up in one day.
1 day later: the answer from support is unchanged. I quote “There is no specific time frame on how quick you can run through 200,000 ad credits, it depends on the number of ads you have and as I stated the more ads, the more views, the more traffic, the more results.”
Well, that’s it, there is no speeding up the ad views other than by writing a zillion ads.
Needless to say that the peeling banner for Traffic Python has come off this website…
For those of you who still want to try it: This is the link:

Final Judgement
The idea is good. The ads seem to perform well enough. Pricing is reasonable.
But the delivey of adviews is far too slow. If you are willing to write a large number of ads (free) you will be able to speed up the rate by which your ads get displayed, but there is no control of how many credits you will use up in a day or month.
For my purposes, Traffic Python is not a valid option.