Best Paid Traffic Sites Or Solo Ads? [NOT PPC]

I like SOLO Ads X - Internet Marketing Solo Ads Directory | for a good list of providers. If the buyer has any problems with the seller then they can place them on the sh*t list and the seller won't be taken off until the dispute is resolved.

It's a good way to keep the sellers honest.

I saw this before when I was looking into this myself, and in the same position.

I reckon MMO/IM niche is the hardest, which is why it's a great place to learn your skills. Making money is easier in other niches for sure.

I checked out Reeds solodex, and the first guy on the list looked to me like a scammer...I checked out a few more and weren't much better. So I kind of wondered why people promote this list of solo providers so much. There may be a reason, but I'll revisit this issue later.

Now I use safe swap, but that also has its drawbacks. You really have to consider that a lot, and I mean a LOT of unscrupulous folks have learned how to scam people, especially newbies, with solo ads. It's really easy to scam someone who doesn't understand the basics of IP addresses, referral's, URLs and the like.

Also, when you're new, the last thing you want to do is call someone a scammer without being confident you are CORRECT.

With safe swaps, the support/owners are pretty good at protecting people when they are first getting started. My second solo I think it was, this guy was sending me traffic from multiple ips on the SAME segment. HELLO??? these hits were all within 2 seconds. Sorry that's not living breathing natural traffic.

The good thing here is, I had a log (provided by safe swaps) of all the traffic, the originating IP, and the time. It's all right there. I sent the log into the support desk, and they kicked the guy and refunded me the money.

It is in scammers nature to believe they are smarter than other people, so there is still and probably always will be, those who will try and fool safe swaps too, but I do feel a lot better there than I would with say, Abel Chua, the first guy on Reeds solodex.

And don't count on Paypal on solos, they don't get involved in that. You will not get a refund from paypal. As far as they are concerned you got the clicks you paid for so there is no reason for a refund.

Now back to revisit why scammers or possible/probably scammers. I admit that I was at first turned off by this list, as I thought why would someone who is ethical be recommended folks who are obviously scammers. So I never considered his list (Reeds) again.

But now I think, if I was to go to a review site, and it only had good reviews, would I trust it? No I only trust reviews that AT A BARE minimum share some feedback on potential to improve. Or negative points.

So if REED was intending to simply list reviews (not necessarily recommendations, which was my first assumption) then him having people who have not performed well would serve his audience.

With that perspective maybe I will have another look.