Opinions about Buying Website traffic

[Watch Store]

Does anyone know if buying website traffic is beneficial ?

I have seen deals for about 5000 visitors for £20

Does it work or do they just send you time wasters ?

[Scott Ames]

Total junk in my experience. You get "visitors" and your logs will show it. But they last about 3 seconds on your site and don't click on anything or buy anything. Many of these are simply robots hitting your site so you believe you have traffic.

[Ross Dalangin]

It will depend on where you get your visitors. If it is an ad on a high traffic website that is similar to your niche then I feel its better but if you don't know where the traffic came from then don't pursue it.

Ross

[Amfire]

Garbage, Stay away, most of your traffic will lot even know language of your website!!!

[jitterbug978]

dont waste your money on popup/popuder/junk/bot/autosurf traffic.

It wont convert.

[wisecrone333]

I wasted $12 just two days ago for paid traffic through safelists - my traffic figures went down, if you can believe it, actually went down - they won't be getting any more money out of me.

If you niche needs targeted traffic you are best to go with some of the bum marketing, and similar methods - they take longer but they are more beneficial in the long run.

all the best
Lisa

[Glenn Leader]

I tested a service last year that promised that number of visitor.
The vendor assured me that I received the traffic, but my stats
show otherwise. Not a single Adsence impression, nor anything
on my AWStats. If the provider says that AWStats won't show
impressions accurately, then run like stink away from them.

HTH

Glenn

[silverbax]

those big number deals (100,000 visitors for $60) are junk traffic. Usually gives you bounce rates of 100%. Don't waste your time.

[Joshua.E1]

I would rather you do article marketing instead, those traffic are not targeted to your niche. Be careful.

[a3dpiper]

99.99 percent of the time, your investment in buying traffic through the numerous "traffic brokers" you find online will be a 100 percent loss of your money. It's always a crap shoot and you'll always lose. Actually, that's unfair to the game of craps, you'd likely be better off with a greater potential ROI playing the craps tables than you would "investing" in buying traffic.

For the money, and I'm talking zero up-front costs here, and outside of long days working the traffic exchanges, I've tweaked and used my own versions of the Banner Slam method with good levels of success in getting traffic to different sites of mine.

[GFox]

I have NEVER had any kind of positive result with these traffic delivery programs. The only people who seem to make money are the traffic brokers. Beware.

[tomw]

Originally Posted by a3dpiper

I've tweaked and used my own versions of the Banner Slam method with good levels of success in getting traffic to different sites of mine.

Could you elaborate on this "Banner Slam method," please?

Thanks,

Tom

[ppcpimp]

do not waste your time with cheap traffic. if it were that easy then everyone would be rich....right?

[ed41143]

Your money would much better invested in having people write articles for you and of course in your niche and shooting them out than buying traffic.

Like everyone has told you, it is a total waste of money and I for one know this first hand, as I am sure everyone else who elaborated on it does too.

Don't buy it!
Ed

[jschop]

Honestly, I wouldn't waste money on paid traffic. As has been said, the only thing it achieves is an unwanted bounce rate of near 100%.


There are other ways to use that £20, though. You get three, possibly four, good articles written for that price. Keep focusing on target traffic; that is the only traffic that counts.

[Marhelper]

I would avoid it like the plague.