Hello, I would like to ask if anybody has ever used such websites that bring you paid traffic ? How do they function, where is the traffic coming from ? Thank you!
I would be very wary about anywhere that offers the chance to "buy traffic". e.g 10,000 for $10 as many are simply a scam. They just cant be true. I did a whole video on this but here are the highlights. 1. The sell "hits" - you don;t want hits you want unique visitors 2. The only categories they offer, if at all, are so general they are useless. One is Business. What business? 3. They only guarantee that they will deleiver the set number of hits no satisfaction at all. They only promise to resend. Not a great deal if the traffic is fake. 4. Sometimes the traffic is just fake, and a script to generate hits at your site, sometimes its real but so vague they arent interested or it deleivered as an annoying pop under. Would you read a pop under page or just close it? You don't want traffic - you want customers. Focus on attracting them instead. Hope that helped Tony
I also have a personal experience. They are just a waste of time and money. Never go for paid traffic.
Just think of the logic of the concept..10,000 or crazy # of leads priced as cheap as dirt? You pay for what you get for...and with such scam programs you won't get any conversions or any quality traffic.
These are the real sickening aspects for these scams... 1. You think - it's only 10 dollars 2. You can pay up to $1000 for even more rubbish 3. I saw one of these for sale and it claimed $50,000 a year profit! Tony
lol @ anyone who's selling pitch to you is "50k profit a year!" without knowing what your client does, without doing much work, and just paying you 10bucks or so...lol
As others have said, the offers as described are just robotic clicks sometimes mixed in with 1% popunders or spyware ads. It is pretty much worthless. As for other offers, you need to read the offer and evaluate their claims. Your question is a good one... for them. Where does the traffic come from? Reputable companies will always be happy to show you their network of blogs or their software with embedded ads or the opt-in forms for newsletters or whatever they are selling. They are happy to tell you about how people will see your ad and what actions you will be charged for. Your answer should be right in the offer. If the source of the traffic isn't disclosed in the offer, then you are probably looking at robotic hits which are worthless unless you are also involved in a scam (selling a web-site based on fraudulently inflated Alexa ranking or something like that). Don't shy away from all paid traffic vendors just because some are selling fraudulent robot hits. Instead, check out the others and if things add up, give them a test run. I have found some of my most profitable paid traffic sources are companies never discussed on these forums. Even an average real advertising network is usually more profitable than Google Adwords.
You should learn how to generate your own leads. If you are talking about placing your banner on a high traffic site then thats fine but if you are looking to buy "Guarantee Traffic" then you may get unset because you will most likely get zero results.
I use to buy traffic, but I stopped. Why should I pay ad networks what I can do myself? Ad networks function simply by contacting, advertising for, webmasters who may want to place ads in their sites. They match advertisers, like me, to webmasters who want to make money. That's it. If you are looking to get a lot of traffic, advertising, buying traffic is the only real way to go in most cases.
I think this thread has successfully pointed out the problems and pitfalls that await those looking to buy traffic. If you're tempted to try the shortcut of ready made traffic remember to ask where the traffic comes from, the delivery method (popunders?) and how targeted it is. I found one that divised the entire world into just 4 groups
While general untargeted bulk traffic is a bad means of paid traffic, people are forgeting about paid traffic from sources like Google, Yahoo, or adbrite. PTC (pay to click) traffic is very good and provides unique targeted visitors to your site.
never buy paid traffic it never converts thus why its so cheap. Do blog comments on do follow get good backlinks and organic traffic rank higher in serps most paid traffic are scamms.
If you are promoting an ezine article and wanted your article to be on top of the lists because of number of view, then paid traffic works... but not on real sites...
They could just be anothe over used ad list. Try Pay per click if you have some money to throw around. Best Wishes, John Benjamin
Everyone is right. Paid Traffic is awful. It only took me one time to pay for traffic to know it was worthless. The best traffic is traffic you generate for yourself.