Buying Traffic - Is it Worth It?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by sjleads2, Oct 4, 2010.

  1. #1
    Is buying traffic worthwhile? What is a good company to buy traffic from? Thanks
     
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  2. cyberlight

    cyberlight Peon

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    The best paid traffic which will get you sales is PPC.

    The only other effective paid advertising is to pay for advertising
    space on a targeted email list such as a newsletter in your niche.

    Hope this helps
     
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  3. susan_ham

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    It's hardly to say whether buying traffic is worth or not. Sometimes it is not as useful as you think. In my opinion, it's not a good method to get more traffic. Maybe you could try link exchange , commenting in blogs or forums, which would be more useful than buying traffic.
     
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    iwilberin5 Peon

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    I think it's good to buy traffic if you could get something out of it, not just getting click, but get email, names from that clicks will be good.
     
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  5. joebert

    joebert Well-Known Member

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    Generally those who sell "traffic" are selling automated junk visitors that aren't worth anything at all and can actually hurt your sites. They pick the word "traffic" because it's generic and will hold up to just about any sort of lawsuit you can think of.

    Stick with real marketers, the people who market your site to your intended audience. Get a specific description of what they are supposed to provide you, instead of something generic such as "traffic". That way you have a legal recourse if you're expecting real visitors who are potentially interested in your offerings, and instead get a bunch of hits from automated programs or fraudulent leads from a traffic providers "paid to click" business partners.
     
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    cartoonbabyboy Active Member

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    If i was you I would avoid those websites that if you pay them, they send you a guaranteeed amountof hits like3 $5 for 5000 hits becuase all those visitors came there from click-to-pay sites and has no intention on what your site offers.
     
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    Im not in the favor of buying the traffic..This traffic can some time make harm to your website..Now there are different marketing analytic software available in market today which are helpful in telling you that how traffic can be increased..There is no need to buy traffic..
     
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  8. sheikhu

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    i think advertisment is far better than buying traffic as it is temperory
     
    sheikhu, Oct 5, 2010 IP
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    buying backlinks and adware are good
     
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    I agree with Cyberlight. PPC is a good marketing tactic if used correctly.
     
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    PPC works if you do good keyword research and are realistic about conversion rates. However, going out and buying 1000 unique visitors from some dude off the street is an unwise business decision. Unfortunately, people are out there with software to try and skew statistics on websites. But having 1000 more unique visitors in a month does little to help your business if they aren't buying whatever it is you are selling.

    Lets put it this way, I would rather have 100 real unique targeted visitors than 10000 visitors from most people who sell traffic.
     
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  12. Le Dangles

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    Paid traffic is only worth it if you are able to tweak your site for optimal conversion rates. Buying traffic is really expensive and should only be practiced if sufficient research has gone into it. Google obviously has the best traffic, you know that whatever you are advertising for on google will send you high quality traffic because the people are searching for the keywords that you posted.

    Getting traffic "organically" from google and search engines work fine to and for the most part it's free traffic. If you are new to internet marketing I would suggest staying away from paid traffic. Start with free traffic sources like article marketing, so you can build some income which will allow you to expand into other marketing techniques like PPC. This way you can optimize your site while getting free traffic to test your website. Once you think you site is as good as it can be then you should move to PPC.

    Good luck with your marketing campaign!
     
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    I tried it a couple of times with no results. Everyone seems to be mentioning PPC, but don't forget PPV as this can be cheaper.
     
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    Of course buying traffic is worthwhile. It depends on how much you are making per click, which depends on the nature of the ad on the site you are buying traffic from. For search, target keywords for people in "Buy Mode," there are tricks to doing this but you're really looking for a few key characteristics. Also, contextual ads on related sites is always good and provides link juice.
     
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    Buying traffic is totally waste.. don't buy traffic. Its totally crap.. In buying traffic there is no original users..
     
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    it really depends. buying traffic sometimes is good and sometimes its really a bad ides
     
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    Hi SJleads,

    its all about testing and tracking - like a lot in the internet marketing world. You will have to test, if the traffic is converting to your website or not.

    Start out cheap,by bying 10 K of visitors and check the effects.

    kind regards, LASSE
     
    LasseKohau, Oct 6, 2010 IP
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    If you know how to buy it and you made a comprehensive media search than YES, it can be very profitable.
     
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    The absolute BEST traffic source would be google Adwords ... other than that, I would recommend mediatraffic, or even cheaper - revisitors
     
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    Yes it definitely worth as long as you know what you're doing. PPC traffick can make you some really good cash, but it can be only spent money if you won't do it well.
     
    overlord911, Oct 6, 2010 IP