Not trying to accuse anyone, as I knew referrer spam does work (as I get a lot of these spam), but I just want to point that the
RapidAPI Web Traffic Generator doesn't seems to be actually sending traffic for some time.
- I setup an endpoint at webhook.site
- Use the API to send a traffic with custom referrer
- No traffic were receive on the webhook site, however my limits has been recorded and deducted.
Now I have to be clear that the first few times I try the API it does send traffic with custom referrer to my site, but after coming back from dinner, this now shows 0 traffic.
This lead me to a 2 reasonable suspicion:
Note that above 2 doesn't have to be mutually exclusive.
For people really into referrer spamming, I think there's no "cost efficient" way to do it at scale without you having some really cheap VPS resources, and even that you might probably still need a large amount of proxies, that are fast AND CHEAP, and maybe even using random browser fingerprinting.
The only way I think that's possible is either you can those trial VPS server with free credits, then maybe write some script using js rendering headless browser like phantomjs for low resources usage, so you can do this cheap and at scale, just my opinion though, I could be wrong, and people can get lucky by getting a affiliate sales just in first 100 spam.