A hands-on field guide to Dalga’s Awesome Traffic Bot (ATB). The desktop app sends human-like searchers into Google, Bing, Naver, Yandex and other engines. It finds your result, clicks it, and behaves like a visitor. This guide combines the official docs with transcripts from every tutorial on Dalga’s channel.
1 · What It Is & How It Works
Awesome Traffic Bot is a CTR-manipulation and SEO-traffic tool. You give it a keyword and a target (your website or a Google Business listing). It opens a real browser, goes to the search engine, types your keyword, scrolls the results like a person, finds your listing, clicks it, and then behaves like a genuine visitor. It scrolls, moves the mouse, visits other pages, and waits on the page.
What separates it from cheap “traffic” services is that it does a real search and a real click from a real-looking browser on a changing IP. The click is registered by the search engine the same way an organic click is, which is the entire point: you are feeding the ranking algorithm the click-through-rate (CTR) and engagement signals it uses to decide who deserves to rank.
The lever · CTR: click-through rate
When more people click your result in the SERP and stay on the site, the engine reads that as “this result satisfies this query.” ATB manufactures that pattern at volume for the keywords you choose.
The lever · Demand: search volume / interest
Each session is a real query typed into a real engine. Running a keyword also generates searches for it, which creates a demand-side signal alongside the clicks.
Where it can send traffic
Search-engine mode covers Google (web + Maps), Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, Naver (web, news, shopping, maps, blog), Coupang, Baidu, and Amazon search. There’s also a direct-traffic mode with custom referrers (social, websites). It’s useful for analytics dressing, but Dalga is explicit that direct/referrer traffic has little SEO impact. For ranking, you want search-engine mode.
Source · "Getting started with Awesome Traffic Bot" + "CTR Search Engine Campaign"
“It’s one of the most advanced traffic bot and CTR manipulation tools on the market… ATB supports a vast majority of search engines like Google, Maps, Bing, Yahoo, Naver and more.” On the search task: “the bot will search your keyword on the selected search engine then it will look for your website in the results. It will scroll down and browse the results page to find your website and click on it.”
Getting started with Awesome Traffic Bot · CTR Search Engine Campaign · Task configuration docs
2 · Install & Requirements
ATB is Windows-only desktop software. Many users run it on a Windows VPS so it can send traffic 24/7 without tying up their own machine.
| Requirement | Detail |
|---|---|
| OS | Windows 10 / 11. For a server: Windows Server 2016 or newer. |
| RAM | 8 GB minimum. 16 GB+ recommended (each thread opens its own browser). |
| CPU | 4-core, ~2.2 to 2.6 GHz or higher. |
| Frameworks | .NET Framework 4.8 + .NET 7/8. The installer adds them automatically if missing. |
| License | 1 key = 2 devices. Enter the key on first launch. |
| Install path | Default C:\Program Files (x86)\DalgaDev\Awesome Traffic Bot. Your data (campaigns, profiles, logs) lives in …\DB\data.db. |
Source · "Getting started" + Installation / Requirements docs
“Windows 10 or 11; if you want to use it on virtual servers you need Windows Server 2016 or above; 8 GB or higher RAM, I recommend at least 16 GB; a 4-core CPU with 2.2 GHz frequency or upper; framework 4.8 as well as .NET 7. The ATB installer will install them automatically if it’s not already installed.”
3 · The Interface in 2 Minutes
These five areas cover most day-to-day use. Everything else is settings.
| Page | What it’s for |
|---|---|
| Dashboard | Totals (visitors, active campaigns), a calendar to filter stats, language switch, license/expiry, and an option to launch ATB on Windows startup. |
| Campaigns | The hub. Add, filter and search campaigns; Start/Stop all; and the three-dots menu for import, export, edit-in-bulk, clone, restart-all, remove-all. |
| Overview | Per-campaign analytics plus detailed logs. Open it from a campaign to watch sessions and see daily visitors and avg session duration. |
| Threads | Controls overall (local/default) threads and shows each thread’s live status (which browser, which campaign). |
| Logs / Settings | Global logs; settings for startup behavior, license key, and general controls. |
# one task per line — keyword : target
your keyword:yoursite.com
another keyword:yoursite.com/page
# direct traffic (no keyword) — just the URL
yoursite.com/landing
# multiple keywords for one site — comma-separate
keyword one, keyword two, keyword three:yoursite.comSource · "Getting started" (dashboard tour + import/bulk) + Dashboard/Campaigns docs
“On the dashboard you can see different elements including total visitors, calendar, active campaigns… threads page to control overall threads… The importing feature supports various options like importing from text files, RSS feeds and even sitemaps… edit in bulk: you can select the campaigns and modify only the new settings without overwriting everything.”
4 · The IP-Changing Toolkit
Changing IP between visitors is what makes each session look like a different person. This is the most important quality lever. Clean, residential IPs are the difference between counted traffic and ignored traffic. ATB gives you several methods.
| Method | What it is | Best for | Watch out |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dalga IPs ★ | Built-in residential IPs, 175 countries + thousands of cities. No external setup. 2 GB free/month for subscribers, top-up available. | The easy default. Geo-targeted residential traffic with zero proxy hunting. | Uses bandwidth quota; pick country/city per campaign. |
| Proxies | Your own HTTP(S) / SOCKS4 / SOCKS5 proxies. Supports rotating proxies via API link. | Many simultaneous IPs across countries; full control. | Residential = good but pricey; datacenter often detected. No IPv6. SOCKS must be IP-whitelisted (no auth). |
| Android phone | Phone’s SIM data over USB; bot toggles airplane mode to get a new ISP IP. | Near-free, genuine residential mobile IPs from your area. | Local IPs only; one IP at a time (all threads share it). |
| PPPoE / Bridge | Router in bridge mode + Windows broadband connection; reconnect = new ISP IP. | Free residential IPs if your ISP/router supports it. | Kills Wi-Fi (LAN only); one IP at a time; not all ISPs support it. |
| Fritzbox | Fritzbox router connected directly to fiber; bot uses its session id to reconnect. | European fiber setups. | Must be the primary router, not an intermediary. |
| VPN | Any OpenVPN-config provider (manual mode). | Cheap, many countries. | Usually datacenter origin → can be flagged. NordVPN integration deprecated; Nord IPs often not counted by Google. |
Setting up proxies (the most common path)
1. Export your proxies to a text file
One per line. Note your provider’s exact format. That’s the thing people get wrong.
2. In campaign step 2, pick Proxy mode and match the format
Select the dropdown format that matches your file exactly. If your file is IP:Port:Username:Password, choose that format. A mismatched format imports nothing.
IP:Port:Username:Password
Protocol://IP:Port:Username:Password
# rotating proxy with refresh API — separate with a pipe
Protocol://IP:Port@Username:Password|https://your-rotate-api-link3. Set protocol & (optionally) ping filtration
Choose HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS, or Auto if your file mixes protocols (then prefix each line with its protocol). Ping filtration keeps only fast proxies, but skip it for backconnect/residential proxies, where it’s inaccurate, and for huge lists where it slows everything down.
4. Test, prune, run
Click Test proxies. Fix any auth errors, then Remove not-working proxies. ATB matches the browser fingerprint (timezone, language, WebRTC) to each proxy’s IP, so you don’t configure those by hand.
Source · "Use Proxies", "USA Residential Proxies", "NEW Dalga IPs" + IP-changing docs
“The bot accepts HTTP(S), SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 proxies. It doesn’t accept IPV6… if you’re going to use SOCKS proxies, your proxies should be IP whitelisted.” · “With Dalga IPs, sending traffic from 175 countries and thousands of cities has never been easier… every monthly or annual subscriber receives 2 GB of free bandwidth every month… these IPs are ISP residential IPs, not VPNs.” · “It will match the browser fingerprint settings such as time zone, languages and WebRTC with the proxy’s IP.”
Use Proxies · NEW Dalga IPs · Android Phone IP method · IP-changing configuration
5 · Your First CTR Campaign, Step by Step
A campaign is built in three steps: (1) general settings, (2) IP changing, (3) tasks. Here’s a clean first run that moves a keyword.
1. Create the campaign & name it
Campaigns page → add. Give it a name and a tag you’ll recognize later (e.g. order-1410 · gmb-nyc). Tags let you filter and bulk-edit later.
2. Step 1: General settings
Device ratio: set the desktop/mobile/tablet mix to match your real audience (e.g. mostly mobile for local). Total visitors: the hard cap for the whole campaign. Set unlimited if you want it to run continuously under a schedule. Delay between visitors: e.g. 100 to 200s to randomize pacing. Block resources (images/video) to save bandwidth, with exceptions like google.com.
3. Step 2: IP changing
Pick your method from Section 4 (Dalga IPs or residential proxies to start). Remember: every method except proxies gives all threads the same IP until it rotates; proxies give each thread its own IP.
4. Step 3: Add a Search Engine task
Add task → Search Engine Traffic. Enter your keyword(s) (press Enter / comma to add several, and the bot picks one at random per session). Enter your target domain exactly as it appears in results (match the www / non-www form or the bot won’t find it). Pick the engine, country TLD, and search language, plus the result pages to scan (e.g. 1 to 2 if you’re on page one).
5. Choose Advanced mode & CTR %
For Google, prefer Advanced mode. It goes to google.com, types, scrolls each results page, then clicks: stronger signal. (Regular mode is faster but blunter, Google-only. Other engines are Advanced by default.) Set CTR to 100% if every search should click your result.
6. Make it behave human (dwell + other pages)
Set delay on the target page to ~80 to 120s (Dalga’s recommended session duration). Enable Visit other web pages: ~3 to 4 pages, 80 to 120s total, with a low bounce rate (~20%). This is what turns a click into a “satisfied visit.”
7. Save & run; watch the Overview
Save, then Start. Open Overview to watch sessions: the bot types, scrolls, finds your link, clicks, reads, moves the mouse. Use the i / logs button to confirm each step. Tune threads (start 3 to 5) and schedule from here.
Source · "Getting started", "CTR Search Engine Campaign" + Initial/Task config docs
“We have three steps to configure the campaigns… the first step is the campaign’s general attributes; on the second page we have different options for changing the IP; in the final step we’ll configure the tasks.” · “I’ll prefer using Advanced since the bot will type and do everything human-like… I’m going to choose 100% CTR.” · Docs: “It’s recommended to set the delay between 80 to 120 seconds… we recommend you enable this feature and set the bot to visit 3 to 4 pages for at least 80 to 120 seconds with 20% bounce rate.”
Getting started · CTR Search Engine Campaign · Task configuration
6 · Task Types & the Settings That Matter
One campaign can hold multiple tasks that run in order inside every browser session, e.g. a warm-up search, then your money keyword, then a social visit. Here are the task types and the dials worth knowing.
Task types
| Task | Use it for |
|---|---|
| Search Engine | The core CTR play. Search keyword → find result → click → engage. Google/Bing/Yahoo support importing logged-in accounts (below). |
| Google / Naver Maps | Local SEO. Enter your Business Name as it appears in the listing (not a URL). You can specify actions on the listing: website click, directions, browse reviews. Pair with GPS for local realism. |
| Direct Traffic | Land on a URL with a chosen referrer (social/website). Shows in analytics; little SEO value. Good for dressing up referral mix, not ranking. |
| Naver services | Naver Integrated, News, Shopping (needs product nvMid), Maps, Blog, for the Korean market. |
Settings that change results
- Keyword weight. Give important keywords a higher weight so the bot picks them more often (weight 10 = picked 10× more than a weight-1 keyword). Lets one campaign favor money terms while still spreading across a basket.
- Delay on page / session duration. 80 to 120s recommended. Too short reads as a bounce.
- Visit other web pages + bounce rate. 3 to 4 pages, low bounce (~20%). The dwell-and-browse pattern is the engagement signal.
- GPS simulation. Sets device location for Maps/local (doesn’t override IP-based geolocation). Use the built-in map selector, place names (“Times Square”), or coordinate ranges.
- Import accounts. For Google/Bing/Naver you can run sessions logged into Gmail/Outlook/Naver accounts (even 2FA). That’s a far stronger, more human footprint than guest cookies.
email@gmail.com:password|recovery@email.com
email2@gmail.com:password2|recovery2@email.com
# recovery email optional, but Google may ask for it# single point — latitude:longitude
40.7580:-73.9855
# a range (bot picks randomly inside it) — note double dashes on negatives
-25.125078--20.00480:-40.804874--40.50Source · "Keyword Weight", "Google Maps Campaign", "GPS Simulation", Task/Initial config docs
“Say I want ATB to pick dalga.dev 10 times more often than the other keywords, I assign it a weight of 10.” · Maps: “you need to enter your Business Name as it appears on Google Maps instead of your website URL.” · Profiles: “start campaigns with random keywords semi-related to your target keyword… for a few days. Then after warming up the browser profiles, you can make the bot target your main keywords with those warmed-up profiles.”
Keyword Weight · Google Maps Campaign · GPS Simulation · Task config
7 · Advanced Functions & AI
Two layers of power most people never touch: a deterministic automation engine (click/type/inject) and an AI agent that improvises.
Advanced functions (deterministic)
Triggered by URL conditions, the bot can perform an ordered chain of actions on the page, exactly like a human: click an element (by tag/ID/class/text, or XPath/CSS selector, even inside an iframe), type into a field, submit a form, go back, inject JavaScript, and inject cookies (from text, file, or a folder, in JSON/TXT/Netscape). Good for accepting cookie banners, running an on-site search, filling forms, or restoring a session so the visit looks deeper and more real.
The AI module
ATB was the first CTR tool to add an AI agent. Plug in an API key (OpenAI GPT-4o/5/o3, DeepSeek R1/R2, Google Gemini, Claude Opus/Sonnet, Grok) and describe what you want in plain language: book an appointment, complete a survey, handle a dynamic form, adapt to whatever the page shows. You can also let AI write the XPath/JS for advanced functions, and run AI before or after the main task with a timeout cap.
Source · "Advanced Functions: Click, Type & Inject Cookies", "DeepSeek/AI in ATB", Advanced-functions docs
“You’ll learn how to use this feature to instruct the bot to perform exactly the tasks you want, such as clicking elements, entering text, injecting cookies, running custom JavaScript… you can even use AI to help write the XPath.” · AI: “describe what you’d like your bot to do and watch it execute… handle dynamic forms, surveys, and adaptive task execution.”
Advanced Functions · DeepSeek in ATB · First AI-powered Traffic Bot · Advanced functions docs
8 · ★ The CTR & Search-Volume Playbook
This is the part you came for. The tool is easy; using it without burning a footprint is the skill. Below is an opinionated playbook drawn from Dalga’s tutorials and standard CTR-SEO practice. Treat it as a starting framework, then measure and adjust.
“Would a real, satisfied human have done this?” Make every setting pass that test, and the rest of CTR-SEO is just patience.
Bots get caught by patterns no human makes: same dwell time every visit, 100% click rate forever, traffic that triples overnight, all from one IP subnet. Every lever below exists to look ordinary.
1. Pick winnable targets
- Page 1, positions 4 to 10 are the sweet spot. CTR signals nudge; they rarely teleport you from page 5. You want keywords where you already rank just below the fold and a CTR bump can push you up.
- Lower-volume / long-tail first. On a keyword with 20 real searches a day, your manufactured clicks are a big share of the signal and look proportionate. On a 50,000/day head term, you’d need implausible volume to matter, and that’s exactly the volume that looks fake.
- Local & Maps respond fast. GMB/Maps engagement (website clicks, directions) plus matching GPS is one of the higher-leverage, faster-moving plays.
2. Ramp like real demand, never a spike
- Start below your current daily organic clicks and climb gradually over weeks. A keyword that gets 10 clicks/day shouldn’t suddenly get 300.
- Use Scheduling + delay-between-visitors to spread traffic across waking hours in the target geo, with natural day/night curves (fewer at 3am).
- Vary daily totals. Schedule a range (e.g. 1 to 10 / period) so no two days are identical.
3. Tune the click and dwell signals together
- Don’t run 100% CTR forever. Real results never get clicked by everyone. Mix in pogo-free dwell and some sessions that scroll the SERP without clicking. A blend reads more natural than a perfect 100%.
- Dwell 80 to 120s and visit 3 to 4 pages at ~20% bounce. A click that bounces in 3 seconds is a negative signal, worse than no click. Engagement is the real lever.
- Add a warm-up search. Use a multi-task session with a related query first, followed by your money keyword. This is closer to how people research.
4. Quality over quantity on identity
- Residential IPs only (Dalga IPs or residential proxies). Datacenter/most-VPN traffic gets discarded: you’ll think it’s working and it isn’t.
- Geo-match everything: IP country/city + GPS + search-engine TLD + language all pointing at the same place.
- Use logged-in accounts + warmed browser profiles for your most important keywords. Sprinkle ~20 to 30% returning visitors. A logged-in, aged, returning profile is the strongest individual signal you can send.
- Match device mix to your real audience (don’t send 100% desktop to a mobile-heavy niche).
5. Generating search volume / interest
- Every search-engine session is a real query, so running a keyword also manufactures demand for it. To make a term look “trending,” increase both searches and clicks gradually across varied locations.
- Brand + keyword combos (“brand + product”) are believable demand to grow and feed back into rankings and autocomplete over time.
- Keep volume proportionate to the keyword’s real baseline. A sudden 100× spike on a dead term is the most obvious fingerprint there is.
6. Combine ATB + Awesome YouTube Bot
For a video or a page that embeds/links a video, you can chain an ATB search task and an AYB YouTube task in one session. It searches Google, then searches YouTube and watches/likes, so one “person” engages with your web result and your video together. That’s the multi-surface signal real fans produce. See the YouTube Bot guide
9 · Measuring Impact & Managing Risk
Where you’ll see it (and where you won’t)
- Google Search Console is your scoreboard: watch impressions, clicks, average position for the exact keywords you target. Position drift over 1 to 4 weeks is the signal that matters.
- Google Analytics will show the sessions as Organic, but not the keyword (Google stopped passing keywords in 2011). So GA confirms traffic, GSC confirms ranking movement.
- Third-party tools (Ahrefs/Semrush) lag. ATB feeds Google’s live signals; rank-trackers re-crawl on their own schedule, so don’t expect instant movement there.
10 · Settings Cheat Sheet
Recommended defaults (from Dalga’s docs)
- Session duration / delay on page: 80 to 120 seconds.
- Visit other pages: 3 to 4 pages, ~80 to 120s total, ~20% bounce rate.
- Mode (Google): Advanced (types + scrolls + clicks). Regular = faster, weaker.
- Delay between visitors: 100 to 200s to randomize pacing.
- Threads: start 3 to 5; each thread = one browser = real RAM.
- IP: residential only (Dalga IPs or residential proxies). No IPv6; SOCKS must be whitelisted.
Copy-ready formats
- Import keywords:
keyword:site.com(one per line; comma for multiple keywords; URL-only for direct). - Proxies:
IP:Port:User:Pass· rotating:Protocol://IP:Port@User:Pass|API - Accounts:
email:password|recovery - GPS range:
lat1-lat2:lon1-lon2
The 6-line CTR recipe
- Target a page-1, position 4 to 10 keyword with modest real volume.
- Residential IP, geo-matched to TLD + language + GPS.
- Advanced mode, dwell 80 to 120s, 3 to 4 pages, ~20% bounce.
- Schedule across the day with varied daily totals; ramp up slowly.
- Warm browser profiles + some logged-in / returning visitors.
- Track position in GSC for 2 to 4 weeks; adjust one variable at a time.
11 · FAQ
Does the traffic actually show up in Google Analytics?
Yes. Search-engine sessions register as Organic in Analytics and Search Console. The keyword won’t appear in GA (Google removed that in 2011), so use Search Console to track keyword-level clicks, impressions and position.
Mac or Linux?
No. ATB is Windows-only (Win 10/11 or Server 2016+). The common workaround is a cheap Windows VPS so it can run 24/7 without using your own machine.
What's the difference between Advanced and Regular mode?
Advanced (Google only, default elsewhere) goes to google.com, types the keyword, scrolls each results page, then clicks: stronger, more human signal. Regular jumps more directly to the result and clicks, which is faster but blunter. For ranking work, use Advanced.
Direct traffic vs search-engine traffic for SEO?
Direct/referrer traffic shows in analytics but Dalga says it has little SEO impact. Search-engine mode (real query + click) is the one that feeds ranking signals.
How many threads / how much traffic can I send?
Each thread runs one browser, so throughput is bound by RAM/CPU. Start with 3 to 5 threads on a normal PC; scale on a VPS. More important than raw volume is keeping volume proportionate and gradual per keyword.
Do I need accounts and warmed profiles?
Not for a basic test. For your important keywords, logged-in Gmail/Outlook/Naver accounts and warmed browser profiles produce a much stronger, harder-to-detect footprint, worth it on the targets you care about.
How fast do rankings move?
It’s probabilistic. Some keywords move within days, some take weeks, some never. Local/Maps tends to respond faster. Effects can fade if you stop. Measure in GSC over 2 to 4 weeks and change one thing at a time.
12 · Sources
Built from the official documentation and a transcript of every ATB tutorial on Dalga’s channel. Quotes throughout link to the exact video/doc.
Official
- Awesome Traffic Bot product page
- docs.dalga.dev full documentation
- Campaign setup: initial configuration
- Campaign setup: task configuration
- Campaign setup: IP changing
Key tutorial videos
- Getting started with Awesome Traffic Bot
- CTR Search Engine Campaign
- Use Proxies in ATB
- NEW Dalga IPs
- Keyword Weight
- Advanced Functions
- Full DalgaDev channel
Awesome Traffic Bot Field Guide · YouTube Bot guide · Page glossary · samuelhuang.org
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