Paid traffic?

Discussion in 'General Business' started by nosf009, Mar 7, 2009.

  1. #1
    Does paid traffic exists actually and is it usable / worth money?
    In terms, okay, let's say I want to buy 1000 visitors. Where can I go and buy? I saw several companies selling, but I was not convinced it's worth of money.
    Any experiences?
     
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  2. SEO-UK

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    Any untargetted traffic is most likely to not be profitable.
    I'd not bother unless I could afford to lose my money just for the experiment, or if I felt my site was SO interesting to the masses that it would be profitable... so worth a gamble.

    1000 isn't a lot eithe, it'd be hit/miss if it were successful.
     
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    #3
    i'm according to you
     
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    It can be profitable if you use good mix of CPM banners :)
     
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  5. Mr Goldberg

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    Dont go for PAID Traffic,if you are not sure,what you are going to get..
    I did it once and got scammed by a guy here in DP who has 399 iTraders. :(

    So,I hate paid traffic now..
    He just used some bots and no real traffic. Everyone does that,I guess...
    Targetted traffic is what we need...
     
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    Makes no sense to me.. The only thing u get frm such investment is a jump in alexa rank and there are free ways to boost ones alexa rank.. so a no no to such sites
     
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  7. Random Guy

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    Most of those don't boost alexa :p

    That traffic is only useful for two things generally: a) inflating viewcounts (ie: youtube), b) defrauding advertisers - whether on your own or some other site that pays by cpm/views.

    I don't recommend either of those.
     
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    I've tried it for a new site recently just to make sure. I bought 50k visitors. It was not worth 1 penny. I got no sales from it. In fact, there were nobody going beyond the homepage. Was supposed to be targeted traffic. Whatever.

    BR
     
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  9. fionix

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    It is as many here already say not worth a single penny... you can use you money for something better than to put it in the pockets of those selling it. I also got scammed by someone here at DP with an iTrader of 399!

    Invest your money in SEO services and get your site ranked thats the way to go.
     
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    It depends on the provider and sources of traffic. It's it from some paid-to-surf programs, it's not really worth it..
     
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    Paid traffic is no good. It only makes a little improvement in Alexa. The bandwidth of your hosting package gets used without any sale or purpose served.

    Many people use Paid traffic to earn from ads and if they want to sell a website. But these are not a good way to earn permanently as they get banned as soon advertising company finds it.
     
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    Show me just 1 proven source of traffic which can be bought for money on the same terms as those "scams" out there and I will pay you right away $200 for 1000 real visitors which really look for to buy my services.

    LoL no one can do that, you need it from the search engines or advertise your services on websites which have the audience you look for and even then you won’t get 1000 visitors over night for this money.

    It might work in the Adult biz, but not if you have a niche product or service.

    I can only say don't waste your money on it.
     
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    Strictly speaking you can buy traffic using google adwords, their content network and yahoo sponsored ads. You need some skills and a few helpful tools to help you, but you can a lot of visitors this way, and the best part is these visitors convert and are TARGETED.
     
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