Okay I get what you mean,
But why would the traffic be of no use if the ad shown is based on the browsing history of the user, relevant to the user = more interest.
Also just to let you know, I'm not telling my users to go and click on the ads, I'm just telling them to visit the site and go finish up a quiz, the impression I get is a side effect only, the adnetworks can't or even bothered to know what I'm doing.
In the scenario where you pay for a specific action e.g. reach the last page of the quiz or go through an article etc, the user will not be paid if he clicks on the ad and leaves the site. This will mean that he did not perform a paid action therefore he won't be paid, therefore the user most likely will not engage with the ad - why would he?
As an advertiser who pays for an impression, I would never want to deal with a publisher like that, and most likely I would report and request the site to be blacklisted at least for my ads. The chance of getting revenue for advertisers from incentive traffic is very low, it's a scam.
Perhaps you have never seen the plenty of mobile apps that offer points to users by letting them watch videos or ads, using admob which is the same as adsense but for mobile, and I'm pretty sure you understand how strict adsense is.
So why they did allow this to happen if the traffic is of no use?!
Traffic arbitrage is what I do for living, not just as a publisher, but also from an analytical and technical side, and I work as ad exchange too, so I do believe I know a thing or two about how things work or at least what ad networks look for and what they stay away from.
The apps you're talking about make the user see ads in order to get something within the app, they don't pay you to watch ads.
So, if you want to have more 'virtual money' (or whatever the game offers) you can either buy them for real money or you can watch an ad and earn points (that you can use within the ga,e) that way. You don't pay 10¢ to show 15¢ worth of ads to profit 5¢, you show an ad and you don't pay any real money for it - that's different.
The chance to get the user involved with the ad is higher than paying users to complete 10 pages on your site.
Sorry but this BS, incentive traffic is huge, you should look at networks like ogads for an example.
OGads is a CPA ad network, they provide deals and pay you for actions, that is very different from AdSense.
I am also sure that OGads would also require genuine actions and won't be paying for dummy 'emails/submissions' whatever the action is.
Maybe there is a misunderstanding, if you mean by incentive traffic is telling users to click on ads on purpose then yes I agree this is bad. But I'm not, I'm just promoting my site in my own way. I'm telling my users to go to my site and the ads will be shown based on their interest, if they are interested in the ads they will click if not they will ignore it, how this is different than a normal user behavior?
Normal user behavior is when user made a choice to go to your site without being rewarded.
BHW does not reward you for the visit, you made a decision you want to come here and respond to a post. It's different from you paid to visit the site and perform an action.
BTW I'm not planning on hiding the referrers but just asked if they would know which was a new information for me, don't judge based on a very little information.
They will, and there's anything that doesn't look right or just look slightly suspicious its way faster, easier, and less risky to ban such site, then speding time trying to find out what is happening.