I am starting up a rating site and was thinking about buying a bunch of traffic as well as getting a lot of people to make ratings. Is this somthing that google will see through and put me into the wretched sandbox? Also it would be good to know if this whole paid traffic things actually works, and if it will help out my site. Look forward to some insight
The only way to stay safe is not to buy any traffic. Link building is hard work but if you do it the right way, you won't be losing sleep over it.
I agree, rather build up quality backlinks over time. If your site is linking from a few "dodgy" neighborhoods, then you might get penalized by Google.
only work for organic traffic .. dont participate in traffic sharing teams and other illegal methods to drive traiffic
Depends where that traffic comes from. Try to get traffic from other domains. If you want more info PM me.
If you're getting good traffic, then there should be no problem. However, it is better to build backlinks the hard way(for free), and then you won't lose an investment if your site gets sandboxed by google.