Hey,
I don’t know if you remember but during Video Lead Studio launch, I’ve sent you an email about our servers couldn’t handle all the traffic and our site being down or loading very hard…
Well… some weeks ago I found out that there was a Different problem…
You will find out about the real problem in a moment…
On VLS site we are giving a free tool to anybody who visits the website, all you have to do is, signup to our newsletter.
As soon as you signup, you will receive the download link. ( Simple…)
Usually we get 80% Open rate on the “download link” email.
The thing is that we got under 30% open rate to the subscribers from VLS site…
That was very strange… So I decided to inspect the problem…
The thing is that I started getting more and more subs each day, so I had to extend one of my GetResponse accounts from 5000 subs to 10.000 subs.
( That was pretty expensive, I had to pay… around 900$ )
After some days I checked my Open Rate, it was already under 10%…
That’s when I was 100% sure that there is a problem, so I asked my friend Chris Hitman to help me as he is my go-to guy when it comes to hacking/security issues.
We took a look over my getresponse account and then headed to my google analytics…
We noticed that we had a lot of traffic coming from Russia and almost NO SALES from Russia…
That was strange…
When we checked getresponse once again…
We found the problem… somebody (from Russia) was adding “fake” subsribers to my email lists, 70% of my optin list was fake…
That’s why we had such low open rates…
When we checked our server traffic in depth, we noticed that I was flooded with traffic from a Russian guy and that google analytics was not counting even 10% of the whole “flood” traffic.
I was so pissed off!
Not only that I threw out on the window almost 1000$…
Now I had to manually filter all the emails from our optin list and remove all those fake subs…
(check out my the image from my getresponse acc)
And my website loading slowly was actually caused by the flood traffic… that made me lose a ton of sales…
Some days ago, Chris hit me up on skype and told me that he has a solution to prevent problems like the one I have in the future…
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