Purchasing Traffic - A way to promote your website?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by ronin1770, Jul 19, 2012.

  1. #1
    Hi

    I have started couple of sites - but there is barely any traffic (niche include: travel, webhosting). One of my friends suggested - why don't you buy some traffic - surely upon searching on Google - bunch of websites offered such service.

    My question(s):

    1. How effective is this way of promoting the website?

    2. Is it organic traffic or some bot hitting your server?

    3. Can some one provide me list of sites they have used in past and found to be good?

    Thanks
     
    ronin1770, Jul 19, 2012 IP
  2. ninjamtlt1

    ninjamtlt1 Active Member

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    It can be very effective, however it's not necessary to buy traffic. You can get free traffic lots of ways :)
     
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  4. rayson.gunn

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    It depends on the traffic. Buying traffic has lot's of branches and the most effective way is PPC. Buy traffic from google adwords and facebook as it's the most effective and cheap.

    Organic Traffic is different from Buying traffic. Organic Traffic is done with SERP or you need to put your webiste on the TOp of google for the traffic

    Hope that helps!

    Thanks!
     
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  5. b4db0y

    b4db0y Notable Member

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    #5
    1. How effective is this way of promoting the website?
    All most less than 5% effectiveness, some 5% people convert only. That is my overall experience.

    2. Is it organic traffic or some bot hitting your server?
    It is not organic or a bot. It is people paid to visit your site or advertisements under pop-unders and etc things.

    3. Can some one provide me list of sites they have used in past and found to be good?
    No Idea
     
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  6. rith

    rith Member

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    You can use both, free and paid traffic. Free take time.
     
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    In my experience free traffic is rarely relevant and you could end up paying lots of money for a load of rubbish. In addition if the company you engage uses black hat tactics you will get a huge slap from the G
     
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    rama378 Greenhorn

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    You should buy traffic from big PPC sites. PPC is good enough to increase your website revenues. Some of the PPC website has a good conversion rate. Big Traffic is not necessarily you get better.
     
    rama378, Jul 21, 2012 IP
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    buy traffic here rukfm.co.uk
     
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    WebDev Solutions Well-Known Member

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    No traffic in the travel and web hosting niche?! This statement is so far from the truth.

    If you are talking about actual paid traffic where you pay XX for XX,XXX visitors- don't do it, complete waste of money. I fear you're looking for a quick fix, in reality there isn't one unless you're willing to look down the route of PPC or banner advertising on niche related websites.

    WebDev
     
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    wileoutz Member

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    I would suggest you buy traffic from me, Set a OPT IN page collect the Emails and then Market to them using a service like aweber
    You need to think diversity when it comes to traffic.
    Free traffic THink Social Networking sites!
     
    wileoutz, Jul 21, 2012 IP
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    You can never say paid traffic will be good or not, because success of paid advertisement depends on several things, which includes
    - Market research
    - Demo-graph research
    - Ad Copy
    - Testing
    - Source of traffic

    Note that buddy if you want to try paid traffic your market research and Demographics research must be of good quality. Also testing of ad copy is very important. Apart from this for the time your research work is in progress to expect you'll make any profit is nothing but stupidity. Even most experienced advertisers make nothing or loss during test period, I do it and I know it test campaigns are always loss.

    Finally to avoid click frauds you should never target Asian and Islamic countries, underdeveloped nations, countries like Nigeria because these are the countries which generate maximum amount of click frauds. Sometimes regions like United Kingdom also generates maximum number of fraud clicks. I never include them in my marketing campaign, same I'll advise you.

    Also you must test your paid traffic campaign with different paid sources because to one offer one paid resource may respond well and for some it may not, it depends on number of sites they have in their network according to your market and demograph,
     
    nrupen, Jul 22, 2012 IP
  13. Mega Mind

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    if you can pay for traffic then its good to get but i think that no need to pay when you can get good traffic via social websites for free.... it will take a bit longer then paid traffic but you will see the difference in couple of months....
     
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    i am selling facebook pages ... you can buy pages from me ... or you can buy posts too ... i have total of 3.6 million fans .... skype id : jack.sparrow8899
     
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    I agree with social network sites. They have tons of viewers. You just have to know how to access them.
     
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    1. How effective is this way of promoting the website?
    Extremely effective if you get the right CPC services because then only genuinly interested people are visiting your site.

    2. Is it organic traffic or some bot hitting your server?
    Depends but CPC is organic.

    3. Can some one provide me list of sites they have used in past and found to be good?
    Facebook
    Adwords.

    Facebook is around $0.50/click but if you have a nice site and a good sized budget you can do great with them.
     
    cameronpalte, Jul 22, 2012 IP