I'm pretty new here but I've noticed in the 'services' sub section of the forum you can buy traffic for a little amount of money. I've read from a number of posters that although the traffic was delivered the conversations were quite poor most of the time which IMO is what it all boils down to (which makes me wonder if it's even worth it). So for the short term if my goal is to increase my conversation rate but not necessarily my Alexa ranking would buying targetted traffic be a good way to go about this as I want to kick start the sales or should I just promote my sites myself. I've just never bought traffic before but wanted to hear from others who have and have had success with this.
Thought so, because then everyone would be doing it. Buying websites, then buying traffic and sitting on their arses making money doing absolutely nothing. It just seemed too good to be true. LOL
the quality is incredibly low on cheap traffic, most is bots or people surfing for pennies and not even looking at your site. plus it can get you banned from adsense
You really need to get TARGETED Traffic. There is no point in trying to get traffic that is untargeted. Also, you want to be careful where you buy it from. Some traffic is simply bots hitting your site. Generate targeted traffic yourself.
Trust me, that traffic NEVER works and it will be money down the tube. The ONLY traffic that's worth anything is targeted traffic. 2 ways to get it: 1. Buy it with PPC from Google and Yahoo - this is very targeted and very good traffic, but it's expensive 2. Search engines - free traffic and converts very well because people find you organically. It is slow though, so you better get strated with creating quality (unique) content and build loads of quality backlinks.
Buying traffic will just increase your traffic just today but tomorrow will be different other case you will ruin the impression from low to high then comes back to low which may call the attention of ads team that may result to bad
Don't buy traffic. They just increase your visitors but it don't improve your sales/ leads. It is also called 'fake traffic'. Most of these are from traffic exchange sites.
don't buy traffic at all. This will help only to increase your visitor but the traffic you buy may not potential visitors to increase your earning from the website and this will not worth your investment on those traffic. Just focus on building good content and gain traffic natural way.
Search engine traffic is notorious for not converting. If your goal is to drive your conversion rate up in the shortest time-frame, pay for targeted traffic (i.e. PPC ads via Adwords/whatever-other-network). Do not buy traffic from these traffic services; they will not convert.
Buying traffic is not a good idea if you really want you boost conversion rate. If that's your goal, PPC campaign is the way to go! It's not that expensive, especially if you do your research and choose your keywords carefully.
Ok, thanks for your input guys. I did think it was a little shady, and I don't particularly want to risk being blacklisted on the CPA networks and getting my adsense account banned. I was going to go down the PPC route but have a maximum budget of a few hundred so I think I'll just stick to writing content and getting backlinks as I think that would be better value for money and probably give me a continuous flow of visitors.
Those "traffic service" can only provide you low quality traffic, it wouldnt helps you increase your conversion but decrease the conversion rate. If you plan to by traffic, you shall go to PPC advertising such as adwords, the traffic is targeted but it will be more expensive.
It would be pretty expensive because the keywords I plan to target are the ones with high demand. I'll be watching where all the money is going and target that niche and just focus on organic traffic and hire ghostwriters for content.
If you promote Bukisa or AC it may be a good road but you must take some risk free preperations and of course find a cheap traffic so you can be at + earnings.
I tried buying traffic once, and honestly, I would much rather cultivate long term readers than get sporadic bursts. It shows too when you have a huge jump in views and then nothing resulting from it.
I disagree with the statement, "Search engine traffic is notorious for not converting."... This is not a problem with the traffic source. It is a problem with the SEO and site. Until the economy went into the shitter 2 years ago, we were spending $2,000,000-3,000,000/month on Google adwords alone... that didn't include the $1,500,000/month at Yahoo!, $1,000,000/month at Live, $500,000/month at Ask on PPC. So we do a LOT of PPC, a lot of ad optimization, a lot of landing page optimization... We have over 40,000 ad groups at Google alone. We meet w/ Google, Yahoo, MSN on a weekly (sometimes daily) basis. In fact, Yahoo! was in town yesterday for our quarterly business review. We have them with all 4 major engines. My organic traffic converts just as well if not better than PPC traffic. If your organic traffic is not converting then 1) your pages are targetting the wrong keywords or 2) the pages on your site where you are driving that organic traffic has crappy content and/or is not built to convert. I DO agree with the two statements, "If your goal is to drive your conversion rate up in the shortest time-frame, pay for targeted traffic (i.e. PPC ads via Adwords/whatever-other-network)." AND "Do not buy traffic from these traffic services; they will not convert." PPC is the best way to get targeted traffic fast... no doubt about it... But it is a poor long term strategy. You should be using PPC to "get by" until SEO efforts can take root and start to drive traffic. Once you are ranking on page 1 for your "money" keywords that you've been buying, some of those people will begin clicking on your organic links. The key is to provide them information they are looking for and also drive them into the conversion funnel. You can use that money that you would have spent on PPC if you didn't rank organically for that term to buy more traffic for new terms that you don't yet rank for organically. You should always be driving traffic with both methods... PPC and organic. Having a page 1 organic link AND a PPC link at the engines gives you brand awareness and greatly increases the chance that you will get the traffic and conversions you're looking for.