After reading and commenting about some of the "buy traffic" sites and the option to buy bulk traffic for 19.99, 49.99 and so on, i thought - Does webmasters really buy this kind of traffic? Will you paypal $29.99 to get 20,000 visitors? How will you monetize it ? Thanks
Yes, webmasters do pay for quality traffic, and you also have people who don't know what they're doing who pay cheap amounts for incredibly low quality traffic. That depends entirely on the type of website you have (to monetize it) and the type of traffic you're buying.
I know some people can make money from buying bulk traffic like that. But as you know that traffic isn't targeted traffic at all so your conversion rates will be basically 0.0000x The people who can make money from this kind of traffic are the webmasters who can make a product/service that will fit a wide range of general needs. Most people do fail making money with this traffic though because it converts like sh!t not only that but it takes up lots of server bandwidth so you also need to make enough money to clear those costs as well.
Pretty much all of that kind of traffic is crap. If they can tell you were the users are coming from, then maybe it would be worth it, but most of the time, you are just wasting your money.
I do buy traffic but only targeted traffic. What you are talking about sounds like it's totally crap, not worth it.
In my experience if your traffic is not targeted, your conversion rate will be so low that not only is it not worth the money, it's not worth your time.
$29.99 for 20k of non-targeted traffic is a terrible rate. Only traffic we buy is worth it because it is very targeted and converts well. Unless you can promise that I can't see much use in it.
I have purchased traffic in the beginning of my IM career being a newbie. It resulted in 0 conversions. Now, I know free methods to drive targeted buyers. I would never buy traffic, targeted or not, ever again. Nor, would I recommend someone else to buy traffic.
Personally would never purchase traffic as it's a waste of marketing budget (in my industry anyways). Many who do purchase traffic usually earn through CPM advertising, but even then the ROI (return on investment) can be quite low and not worth the effort. About the only thing that may benefit you from buying traffic, in my opinion, is helping your Alexa scores!
Well you can buy traffic to get to your site but I do not think people from those traffic will be looking into your product or services that you may offer, it hard to say what. Main thing we all need to do is focus on the market that we are promoting in order to get people to buy from us, but you can get alot of free traffic if you work hard on it.. it will come. Using free classified ads site, I was getting about 50 hits per day just testing out one of the niches. So you can get free traffic, it does take time to do it.
I typically utilize PPC through Google Adwords. They got kinda crazy over the past few months and shut a lot of people down. But if you use them right, it's def a good source.
I do sometime buy traffics to increase my alexa but by buying traffic, i don't expect to get any conversion..
I never buy traffic too, but if I could find some place I could buy targeted quality traffic, whatever that is, I would considerate it, just to try it out if it gives any conversions.
It's not about quantity it's all about quality. I have tried some traffic brokers, but the traffic they sent me was usually below crap. I only buy directly from site owners where I see where my ad is going or from google (adwords)
Yeah, I agree. If you could get targeted quality traffic, it might be worth a try. But I don't see how someone else can get that kind of traffic for you. No one else cares about your business like you do. They don't know your needs like you do. Or your product or service like you do. So they'd never quite hit the bulls-eye. You either need to get the customers yourself, or you have to be able to acquire customers (not traffic, but real customers) from the company you work with... now that would be special!
Agree. PPC is also a form of (targeted) paid traffic that works quite well if utilised properly. However, the type of traffic that the OP mentioned, probably isn't worth much...