Anybody Ever Buy Clicks?

Just wondering if anybody has ever purchased any of those "xx,xxx" visitors to your site for $10 or whatever, and if so the success rate with them

 

Don't waste your money my friend, you will not see any sales as the traffic isn't organic.

 

Usually people purchase that because they're planning on selling the website and they want it too look like they were getting somewhere. Ancient method like rolling back the miles on a used car. You're better off paying for myspace bulletins or ads on a social network, game site, or proxy site.

 

I wouldn't buy from one of those sites, but I have been looking at some sites where they allow you to buy an ad spot on their site for a certain amount of money per month.

 

It's mostly junk traffic. If it actually had any value, and the visitors converted it would be worth a lot more than $10.

 

Agree. Rep added. I believe that kind of traffic is good for Youtube etc but for sales, nop.

 

I bought it to see if it worked. You do get traffic, but the odds of those people staying or using your site are very slim. I bought 50 clicks for 85 cents to test it, wasn't worth it really.

 

Years ago I owned one of those sites selling traffic. It was ok then but has evolved to pretty useless traffic in my opinion. It used to be a really good source for adult traffic. I think now it is SEO, backlinks or buy some 3waylinks and web 2.0 stuff that also can be hit or miss depending on the degree it is targeted.

 

A complete waste of time and money. Don't be suckered into it.

 

I buy clicks from PTC sites and other traffic sites to get my views up on youtube to around 10,000-20,000. Once my videos are at that many views they start getting lots of traffic.

Don't buy that type of traffic if you want to actually sell something though, they will more than likely not buy anything.

 

I have once, but never again.
My opinion: it's not worth it, just junk.

 

I agree with others that it is not worth it. The person who is selling these may just be putting your url into an automatic system that surfs the sites being advertised until the purchase amount is used up. Another thing, there is a big difference between hits and visitors to your site. However, you still don't have the assurance that "real" people are seeing your advertisement because the term "clicks" is vague.

Say it with me everyone ... If it sounds to good to be true, it probably is. LOL

 

Then why are so many people selling this service? Are they hoping to attract the business of new people starting out that don't know the low quality of this traffic?

 

Because I think in part that there's some sort of conversion rate for sales. Every 1,000 visitors may equal one signup or sale. Sadly those statistics should be multiplied times 3 to 5 for the fact that most PTC employees aren't interested in shopping at all. They're interested in earning. In fact a lot of people use macros to browse their programs automatically. So you may not even get a real user. A lot make '$XXXX' a month EBooks recommend macro programs for PTC and PTS.

I noticed that every 230 visits for my website equaled 1 signup. I didn't make money but I gained a semi real member. Costs a pretty penny though. I also think that some people make money back from pay per impression ads.

A lot of people still thinks this works. And PTC sites aren't hard to develop or find free scripts.

I'd say worthy and more advanced programs like Mypoints actually work because the consumers are offered more incentives for purchases, such as larger discounts from the stores. However to buy into Mypoints probably costs a pretty penny.

 

Buying clicks is soooooo not cool.

 

I have once or twice, it's pretty worthless, the traffic is derived from pop ups im pretty sure, and who actually looks at popups LOL

 

Some people achieve good ROI only if the clicks are from Popunders or Popups on sites. You may want to go with a reliable ad network to achieve this.

 

i have to agree with all the posters saying that paid-to-click traffic is garbage. i did have mild success with a ptc campaign advertising my amazon affiliate id to get the cookie on their computer. those that want to drive traffic to youtube and such you can get good deals at getpaidforum.com, there is a subforum for webmasters advertising 'specials'. 1000 clicks 10 cents for e.g.

 

Agreed people get paid to spend x seconds on your site.