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I used to buy traffic for my game site, but now I am more concentrated on doing SEO work.

Do you buy traffic?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of buying it?
If you buy, from where and how much?
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  • Profile picture of the author blitz20
    I buy a ton of traffic each day $5,000+. The reason is its faster and easy to scale a business with paid traffic rather than waiting for SEO to kick in. As for where I buy traffic, all over the place is really the best answer.
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    • Profile picture of the author emmerson
      If you can afford it and spend some time learning how to get the best targeted traffic from reliable sources its the way to go. Like Blitz said you can scale up pretty quickly this way.
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    • Profile picture of the author Willowgal
      Originally Posted by blitz20 View Post

      I buy a ton of traffic each day $5,000+. The reason is its faster and easy to scale a business with paid traffic rather than waiting for SEO to kick in. As for where I buy traffic, all over the place is really the best answer.
      I am looking for very targeted traffic ... basically UK horse racing tips ... any idea where best to find quality traffic for this niche?
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      • Originally Posted by Willowgal View Post

        I am looking for very targeted traffic ... basically UK horse racing tips ... any idea where best to find quality traffic for this niche?
        Your best bets for laser-targeted traffic are

        > Facebook (Well yeah, it's facebook, they know everything about everyone)
        > Bing (Better than Adwords, super effective)
        > Solo Ads (Least risk, best to start of with, laser-targeted)

        Hope this helps
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    • Profile picture of the author talfighel
      Originally Posted by blitz20 View Post

      I buy a ton of traffic each day $5,000+. The reason is its faster and easy to scale a business with paid traffic rather than waiting for SEO to kick in. As for where I buy traffic, all over the place is really the best answer.
      Good advice.

      I really hate to give someone new an advice of doing SEO or writing articles when it comes to free traffic. Paid ads is far better and it gets you better and faster results.
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    • Profile picture of the author Lykkegaard
      Originally Posted by blitz20 View Post

      I buy a ton of traffic each day $5,000+. The reason is its faster and easy to scale a business with paid traffic rather than waiting for SEO to kick in. As for where I buy traffic, all over the place is really the best answer.
      Ok, so where do you buy it?
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    • Profile picture of the author microscopes
      Originally Posted by blitz20 View Post

      I buy a ton of traffic each day $5,000+. The reason is its faster and easy to scale a business with paid traffic rather than waiting for SEO to kick in. As for where I buy traffic, all over the place is really the best answer.
      You buy $5k of traffic per day? That's $150,000 per month.

      But your income report on your website says you make $60k per month. Are you losing money?
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  • Profile picture of the author missmystery
    Originally Posted by gamestoenjoy View Post

    I used to buy traffic for my game site, but now I am more concentrated on doing SEO work.

    Do you buy traffic?
    What are the advantages and disadvantages of buying it?
    If you buy, from where and how much?
    Yes.

    So far I have tried adfly, facebook advertising, bing and adwords.

    I still have not gotten the hang on bing an adwords, as even high CPC bids don't seem to get any traffic. Dunno how to fix this.

    adfly is good depending on your offer and whether it matches the demographic of adfly link viewers.

    Facebook has a simple interface that allows you to target by very detailed interests, which I love. At the moment one of my fan pages has $3.00 per day spend to get an ongoing trickle of likes.

    The downsides to buying it is sometimes it's hard to tell how expensive it's going to be. You really need to keep that CPC down.
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    • Originally Posted by missmystery View Post

      adfly is good depending on your offer and whether it matches the demographic of adfly link viewers.
      That must be a joke because adfly is one of the worse traffic you can waste your money on. Use solo ads and paid advertising from highly trafficked websites that tailor to your audience.
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      • Profile picture of the author missmystery
        Originally Posted by Michael J Anthony View Post

        That must be a joke because adfly is one of the worse traffic you can waste your money on. Use solo ads and paid advertising from highly trafficked websites that tailor to your audience.
        No, it's not a joke. I've had several sign ups through adfly traffic in the past. Which was so cheap you may as well not bother paying for it.

        If you direct adfly to rubbish offers that aren't targeted to the demographics, of course you won't get anything. It depends on what you are promoting.
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  • Profile picture of the author ChrisBa
    Originally Posted by gamestoenjoy View Post

    I used to buy traffic for my game site, but now I am more concentrated on doing SEO work.

    Do you buy traffic?
    What are the advantages and disadvantages of buying it?
    If you buy, from where and how much?
    When done correctly buying traffic is a great way to accelerate the lifecycle of your website, just make sure it's ready for the influx of traffic
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  • Profile picture of the author ACandi
    Originally Posted by gamestoenjoy View Post

    I used to buy traffic for my game site, but now I am more concentrated on doing SEO work.

    Do you buy traffic?
    What are the advantages and disadvantages of buying it?
    If you buy, from where and how much?
    Hello gamestoenjoy;

    Yes I buy traffic and I also work free traffic methods.

    When I buy, I get better quality results from solo ads. By better quality I mean converting clicks into optins and leads into customers. The trick is finding out which solo ad providers give you consistent results over three or four months.

    It's important that you keep in mind your financial goal and your budget. For example if you want to earn $1,000 a month, your paid ads budget should not be more than $500 if you can afford it.

    You must also know how many new customers will generate $1,000 in sales commissions. If you do not get enough new customers with paid ads, you'll need to use free targeted traffic methods to get the rest.

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  • Profile picture of the author nik2014
    Originally Posted by gamestoenjoy View Post

    I used to buy traffic for my game site, but now I am more concentrated on doing SEO work.

    Do you buy traffic?
    What are the advantages and disadvantages of buying it?
    If you buy, from where and how much?
    i'm also buying traffic from outside.its a easiest way for this matter.because some seo persons charge tons of $$.if you want to traffic provider please ask through message.i'll send a link for you.
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    • Profile picture of the author heavysm
      In my mind when you're starting out you master free traffic methods.

      Then once you have cash flow and a consistent income you invest, build a sales funnel and start scaling traffic buys.

      Some start right away with buying traffic but don't see results, and realistically, the same can happen with free traffic.

      There is no "correct" path but no one doing 6, 7 and 8 figures yearly in their business is doing so from pure free traffic.

      But to answer you, yes, I do buy traffic. Collect the leads, push them through a nice funnel and follow up with a nice email sequence.
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    • Profile picture of the author allysanders
      Hi,
      I would highly appreciate if you could let me know your traffic provider. I have an insurance quote websites and looking for targetted traffic.

      Thanks for your help in advance !

      Thanks,
      Ally
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  • Profile picture of the author voldamort
    if the traffic is genuine means the real people there is no harm in buying ..... if traffic is like bots than no use ..... to get real traffic place your ads on good reputed sites ......
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  • Profile picture of the author jobdollarr
    Originally Posted by gamestoenjoy View Post

    I used to buy traffic for my game site, but now I am more concentrated on doing SEO work.

    Do you buy traffic?
    What are the advantages and disadvantages of buying it?
    If you buy, from where and how much?
    I will buy traffic as an investment.

    If you do not buy lau cross, adword, bing you will lose.
    Because some bots on the network traffic is small or large network.
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  • Profile picture of the author Nirali
    You can drive thousands of targeted visitors for few dollars, which can help for more and better conversation.
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  • Profile picture of the author PBScott
    I buy as much traffic as I can that is still profitable... That only works out to a few hundred dollars a month at the moment, which is a small percentage of our traffic. The majority of our traffic comes from SEO.
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  • Profile picture of the author carlo_sim
    Buy Traffic and Test Your Conversions = $$$
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  • Profile picture of the author claireccushing
    I want to buy quality traffic to your site. But to ensure the quality and time on site high. Who can tell me know
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  • Profile picture of the author Cityofdreams
    Yep on penny clicks gross profit margin on my drop shipping store is 32%
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  • SEO is the most unreliable source of traffic. It's here today and gone tomorrow. Don't depend on any one website to be your main source of traffic generation. If that website changes it's rules or if that websites has been taken down for some reason then your internet business is F*#@...

    You want to be the main source of your traffic generation. Yes YOU!

    Find social website, facebook, youtube, pintrest, plenty of fish and other websites like adfly, hubpages, and squidoo and ADVERTISE ON THEM.

    List brokers with a buyers list of people who bought similar products in your niche in the last 30 to 90 days is also a great way to source quality buyer traffic.

    Paid traffic is the most reliable source of traffic you can generate to your squeeze page/website. You decide when to swtich it on or off. You decide how much traffic you want and where to send it.

    Creating your own television show is also a good way to create pre-sold traffic to send to your website.

    I have a website based on that strategy

    I trust this answers your question

    Thanks
    Sheldon Arendse
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  • Profile picture of the author cherrytom
    Buying traffic works, for sure. But you've got to be careful who to buy from. I've wasted hundreds, maybe thousands, of dollars of SoloAds only to find that none of the clicks converted. I think the mistake I made was in not asking the SoloAd vendor if he had experience in promoting the service I was offering. Free traffic methods also work, of course, but this can take a lot of time. I think, in both cases, that a mentor helps --- someone who has been round the block a few times and knows where to go for your paid and free traffic. I spent many years, and far too much money that I couldn't afford, struggling to make money online, until, finally, one day I realized I wasn't going to get anywhere without a mentor --- someone to tell me what to do, and show me how to do it. One of the first things he told me to do was to join the Warrior Forum, and I'm delighted i took his advice, as there are lots of experts here who generously share their time and expertise to help others. Keep smiling!
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  • Profile picture of the author ganesh1989
    My opinion: Solo ads traffic is the best converting one. If you go for PPC ads, at the end, you will end up paying the same money!
    Just search for Solo ads in Facebook. You will find a lot of solo ads groups. Join them and look at the testimonials that people are posting, about many solo ad vendors. Choose vendors who have the following testimonials:
    1.) 70%+ Tier1 traffic
    2.) 40%+ opt-in rate
    3.) Sales preferably (this indicates that their traffic is of very good quality)
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  • Profile picture of the author Slade556
    It depends on what you mean by buying traffic
    Investing money in ad campaigns is also sort of a "buy traffic" method. However, if you wanted to ask about buying fake visitors, just to see the numbers go up... then that's not a good idea. In order to benefit from traffic, you need to target the right people.
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  • Profile picture of the author abigayleabril9
    If you do the SEO, your site traffic will increase automatically. Such as if you make some Do-follow back link, your PR & traffic will increase at a time. then if one search on the search engine by typing your keyword, the search engine will show your site first. It is the main benefit of the SEO.
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  • Profile picture of the author discrat
    Originally Posted by gamestoenjoy View Post

    I used to buy traffic for my game site, but now I am more concentrated on doing SEO work.

    Do you buy traffic?
    What are the advantages and disadvantages of buying it?
    If you buy, from where and how much?
    Quick, easy, quality, and little work

    Bing and Facebook and Solo Ads


    - Robert Andrew
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  • Profile picture of the author Olympio
    Originally Posted by gamestoenjoy View Post

    I used to buy traffic for my game site, but now I am more concentrated on doing SEO work.

    Do you buy traffic?
    What are the advantages and disadvantages of buying it?
    If you buy, from where and how much?
    It depends. If you don't have enough money don't buy traffic because the best media buying traffic will require at least 1000 bucks deposit.

    If you have strong knowledge in SEO, I advise you to continue with SEO.

    Olympio
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  • Profile picture of the author jempub
    I buy solo ads weekly!

    Paid traffic is fast. It's targeted. It converts.

    Free traffic can be good too! I use Twitter
    every day and am able to add 20-50 new
    subscribers to my optin list.

    Chat soon

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  • Profile picture of the author starptc
    I personally do traffic exchange.

    If someone interested contact me please.

    I own a PTC website. Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author sledget369
    You buy solo ads
    ADV: The traffic is fast.
    DisADV: If you could get bad traffic. You must know who to get your traffic from.
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  • Profile picture of the author LindapAT
    If you want to get permanent traffic then you need to do best SEO for your website and also if you want to get unique traffic then you will do SMM.....
    thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author andorod77
    Never directly pay for traffic from sites as they are usually bots, but using Google adwords, facebook advertisiing, paying for a WSO here in the warrior forum, can lead lots of targeted and high quality traffic back to your site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Thomas Tim
    I normally buy Facebook traffic for one of my accounting educational fan page (in Malaysia). Each time I have made important post in my FB page, I would pay to boost traffic to drive traffic to my post. Not much I spend on that traffic, every post around $5 got me a good number of REACH, LIKE and SHARE.
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  • Once you get to a point where you get..

    $2 out for every $1 you put in, it changes your perspective on buying traffic!

    It's an accelerator, and it makes you an investor. The more you spend, the more you earn!

    Until then, you have to test, optimise and improve your conversions
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  • Profile picture of the author seobro
    I started buying traffic back in the 90's and people told me it was dirty to pay for traffic and I had to wait and people would eventually find me. Good luck with that one. Notice the local town crier. He tries to make a loud noise. OK so getting exposure is the key to your success. Keeping quiet will not help you. Well, that did not work then and does not work now. I look for places where I can get clicks that are not too expensive. Blog ads is one. There are many more. Also, I use back page.
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    • Profile picture of the author emmerson
      Facebook is the best place to start for someone inexperienced, your campaigns can be easily tested/customized etc. and nothing laser targets your desired audience like facebook. Its gonna be a bit on the pricey side for ads though. You may also want to consider solo ads to start out as well but you will need to do quite a bit of due diligence 1st.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mr Lim
    As experienced marketer suggest.


    Organic traffic holds a higher conversion rate compare to bought traffic.


    Paid traffic = 1/10 of organic traffic.


    Anyone agree?
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  • Profile picture of the author SuperKC
    I buy traffic.. but you have to understand.. sometimes my 'lead cost' thru ppc can be $40-100.. sometimes my realized cost on a sale can be $100's.. so unless you control the complete supply line of your product and you have a huge unbeatable profit margin in the industry then you shouldn't consider ppc.
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  • Profile picture of the author SuperKC
    Fyi.. there are some domain tools out there that are really great ways to buy traffic on the cheap that work for startups. I'm involved in a few that keep my cost on a targeted google visitor down to 5 cents or less.
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  • Profile picture of the author GiftGallore
    From my experience, find and source out a good traffic provider, one that provides organic, referral & social media traffic, you need a mixture! Continue doing seo and social media for you money site, even if a little each day. SEO companies want too much $$$$ when you can do the same for much less!
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  • Profile picture of the author Edwin Torres
    Do you buy traffic?:

    Yes I buy solo ad traffic.

    What are the advantages and disadvantages of buying it?:

    I can test out a sales funnel extremely quick. I don't have to spend hours trying to drive the traffic for free. All you do is pay and it'll come to you (mostly) hands free.

    If you buy, from where and how much?:

    I'm part of a couple of Skype groups and Facebook groups where members advertise their solo ads. They're pretty easy to find if you do a quick search on this forum.
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  • Profile picture of the author heroboy
    I buy traffic only when I am trying to build a list. I use PPC or PPV.

    Advantage: You will know it early, if your sales page does not work.

    Disadvantage
    : You will lose a lot of money, if you don't manage well.
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  • Profile picture of the author andorod77
    Paid traffic is a great way to get targeted quality traffic to your website by means of Google adsense, Facebook ads, and solo ads. If your traffic does not convert well, it may mean something is wrong with your page
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  • Profile picture of the author Matthew Trujillo
    The benefits to buying traffic is that it is fast and scalable.

    The cons of buying traffic is that is can be risky if you don't know what you are doing.

    It's best to focus on building your free traffic sources and use paid traffic as leverage.

    The ultimate goal IMO is to have multiple streams of traffic at all times.

    Never rely on just one source of traffic, build one source then build from there.

    Study both free and paid advertising and be willing to spend time or money or both.
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  • Profile picture of the author NexGeneration
    Legitimate SEO is available which will often deliver 1st page results within 30 days.
    There is a model which allows you to receive the SEO work gratis for a per click rate on the back end.
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  • Profile picture of the author PPC-Coach
    I've been buying traffic since 2004. My primary source now is Facebook.

    BUT I also use Adwords and a couple others.

    I really don't like SEO because it's too volatile and prefer to trade my money for time.

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  • Profile picture of the author goindeep
    I buy traffic.

    Usually I get a few trucks, buses and ambulances but i prefer SUV's and sedans blocking the roads bumper to bumper
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  • Profile picture of the author EIMIE
    I think if your site good SEO on page and Off page is not buy traffic, couse good visitor is natural..

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    Tips Succes
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  • Profile picture of the author parmarjeet
    I tried clixsense advertising and it worked for me.
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