Buy Traffic - just a scam or is it for real ?

Hi,

I'm in need to get some traffic(like all of us) and therefore I surfed around for thus traffic selling sites and found several of them.

I ordered with one 50K Webmaster traffic, and after some time we got the traffic.

Not a suprise that ALL visitors only are on the index page and never serve the site.

So my questions are all services like that if so why can they exist I can't be the only one that noticed this?

Any comments would be appreciated.

 

Buying traffic is a waste most of the time, because when you buy it from a site, that site just serves your site as pop ups, and people use pop up blockers etc.

The best thing to do is buy banner spots or text links.

 

Mostly traffic scams and proxied hits.

I wrote a pretty good article about this.

http://www.nerdlib.com/unique-traffic-tips.php

 

yea, i advise not to do it as tempting as it may seem being so cheap.

 

Really great article. I can imagine that they can fool alot of people into there business and steal there money.

I just paid about $240 for 50k shaddy traffic. One thing is good on it, our sales people that don't know what is going on are looking at the online chat and see 80 - 100 people online instantly - LOL

 

3 words..

scam scam scam..

Dont go there....

 

So I guess this is also a scam : www.trafficka.com I should have made this thread before I ordered traffic from them.

Anyway it was only $20....

 

Most of them are scams... even PTC websites are scams.

 

Yeah, but with those $20, you could've gotten yourself quite a large amount of stumbles or diggs, or whatnot.

 

Okay and where can I buy it ? PM me if you have such a service or post here if you know about one ?

 

Don't waste your money.

It's quantity that you'd be paying for, not quality. Quality is what you want.

 

Many of the now large sites out there are large due to buying traffic. Askmen, iVillage, About....

Any site that has hundreds of thousands of monthly unique and repeat visitors bought and still buy traffic in some form or another. There is no other way around it.

The question that should be asked is: "Which advertising 'companies' are worth it?"

One thing is for sure, though, you will be spending at least 6 cents a click with a reputable one.

Not to sound like a stuck recored here, but...do the math.

Anything less than that, and they are probably full of shit. There has to be profit for both the webmaster and the company.

 

Are we talking PPC advertising or some other form of advertising (not the annoying popups/unders) OR are we talking sending a bot to visit the site? Something like StumbleUpon would also not be considered quality traffic either.

If you're referring to PPC advertising or something like shopping.com, then yes, that is quality traffic. They click on the ad because they're interested.