Best way to Spend $300 for instant targeted traffic?

13 years ago

Banner ad placements on targeted sites could be good. Search your top keyword phrases in Google and look at all the top sites that are getting the most traffic. If they have banner ads, try and find out which ad network they are using and hit 'em up.

The weight loss 'niche' is ultra-competitive though so make take some out of the box thinking. In fact I don't even think I would call weight loss a niche - it's a market.

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Bane

13 years ago

Originally Posted by woah316

Hello everyone. I'd like to know you guys suggestions on the best way to spend $300 to get some instant, targeted traffic.. If It helps at all It'd be in the weight loss niche.

I do not want to use PPC, as it's really not profitable for my situation. I need something where I can spend $300 and get a load of traffic (if possible?) Any suggestions are welcome.. Even using a bot if that's what you suggest (I understand a bot would not be as instant as say, just paying for a banner, but thats ok)..

Other things that crossed my mind were getting a paid banner for a certain amount of time on a forum, using a big ad network for displaying my banner on sites, a joint venture email blast(s) etc

And with your suggestion, how many visitors do you think I could get with the $300 ( a ROUGH estimate of course...)

Thanks in advance for your help

Targetted is a little difficult - I do know that there was software (whose name escapes me now) where you could purchase ads that you could target down to specific url's. Many people had this software installed, and had accepted that they would be getting served ads during their browsing experience (in return for free games, software, etc).

There were many many cool ways you could use that software, such as targetting competitors urls, so that way when someone typed in that site, or even went there via google, your ads were displayed first.

Many of my colleagues have had great success with this method, though it being 1:30am here my brain is a little frazzled...perhaps someone else will recall the specific advertising method I am referring to.

But it basically suits all your needs

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MarketingVet09

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Bane

Targetted is a little difficult - I do know that there was software (whose name escapes me now) where you could purchase ads that you could target down to specific url's. Many people had this software installed, and had accepted that they would be getting served ads during their browsing experience (in return for free games, software, etc).

There were many many cool ways you could use that software, such as targetting competitors urls, so that way when someone typed in that site, or even went there via google, your ads were displayed first.

Many of my colleagues have had great success with this method, though it being 1:30am here my brain is a little frazzled...perhaps someone else will recall the specific advertising method I am referring to.

But it basically suits all your needs

Hi bane, suggest your untargeted methods if you can... As long as it's a ton of visitors for a reasonable price. Let me know your suggestions. I'm interesting in exploring all options.

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Bane

13 years ago

Originally Posted by woah316

Hi bane, suggest your untargeted methods if you can... As long as it's a ton of visitors for a reasonable price. Let me know your suggestions. I'm interesting in exploring all options.

Hey there Woah, glad I could help.

Untargetted I'd go for an email list jv/swap/blast - just make sure they aren't people who promote something in every damn email, as to most people their emails are simply white noise. (technically note 'un' targetted, but certainly less targetted).

Alternatively, although I am trying to keep my nose clean these days, twitter bots (Not the ones that rely on followers or @messages ~ pm me if you need help here) are REALLY good at getting traffic - I mean STUPIDLY good. If you can make sure that the traffic matches what you are trying to promote it is practically a way of printing money.

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WillR

13 years ago

It's generally known as CPV (Cost per view) or PPV (Pay per view). There are a lot of networks that offer this type of advertising.

Some of the better known networks are:

TrafficVance
Direct CPV
LeadImpact

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John Romaine

13 years ago

1. Go to youtube.com
2. Type in your main keyword.
3. Sort videos by view count
4. Find the top videos by view count and offer each member $100 to put your link in their video.
5. Almost gauranteed traffic.

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WillR

13 years ago

Originally Posted by ramone_johnny

1. Go to youtube.com
2. Type in your main keyword.
3. Sort videos by view count
4. Find the top videos by view count and offer each member $100 to put your link in their video.
5. Almost gauranteed traffic.

Good luck

It sounds great on paper but it's not as easy as that in practice. I tried that method a long time ago and gave up pretty quickly - not worth the hassle.

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MarketingVet09

13 years ago

Hey, I know I said targeted earlier, but what about those things that say like "10k visitors for $10" and stuff like that? Do those visitors actually SEE your website, or is that just something to help inflate your stats?

and can anyone recommend one of those services?

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zomex 13 years ago

i certainly agree with banner placements/links on relevant websites/blogs/forums. That's probably the best way to go specifically CPM or a fee/month rather than PPC.

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WillR

13 years ago

Originally Posted by woah316

Hey, I know I said targeted earlier, but what about those things that say like "10k visitors for $10" and stuff like that? Do those visitors actually SEE your website, or is that just something to help inflate your stats?

You will quickly learn with traffic that anything that sounds too good to be true, almost always is - otherwise everyone else would be using those methods.

Never go for one of those services. They may send you 10,000 visitors but they will probably never actually see your website or they will be highly untargeted or from non-english speaking countries.

Go for the tried and true methods. Banner ad placement is definitely a good start.

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MarketingVet09

13 years ago

Originally Posted by WillR

You will quickly learn with traffic that anything that sounds too good to be true, almost always is - otherwise everyone else would be using those methods.

Never go for one of those services. They may send you 10,000 visitors but they will probably never actually see your website or they will be highly untargeted or from non-english speaking countries.

Go for the tried and true methods. Banner ad placement is definitely a good start.

ok, thanks for your help

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Darla

13 years ago

Originally Posted by WillR

You will quickly learn with traffic that anything that sounds too good to be true, almost always is - otherwise everyone else would be using those methods.

Never go for one of those services. They may send you 10,000 visitors but they will probably never actually see your website or they will be highly untargeted or from non-english speaking countries.

Go for the tried and true methods. Banner ad placement is definitely a good start.

This is definitely good advice. If its sounds to good to be true, it usually is. Stick with the tried and tested methods like banner ads. Another method I plan to try this month is Solo Ads. Finding someone with a responsive list in your niche and then sending a solo ad mailing to that list seems to also be an effective way to generate traffic and sales quickly.

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MarketingVet09

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Darla

This is definitely good advice. If its sounds to good to be true, it usually is. Stick with the tried and tested methods like banner ads. Another method I plan to try this month is Solo Ads. Finding someone with a responsive list in your niche and then sending a solo ad mailing to that list seems to also be an effective way to generate traffic and sales quickly. I

hi, can I ask you, what ad networks would you suggest I sign up with?

I know one method is to contact an individual forum that hosts their own ad system, and pay them directly...

But what if I wanted my ad on a variety of sites and I guess pay per 1,000 impressions or something else?

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zomex

13 years ago

Originally Posted by woah316

hi, can I ask you, what ad networks would you suggest I sign up with?

I know one method is to contact an individual forum that hosts their own ad system, and pay them directly...

But what if I wanted my ad on a variety of sites and I guess pay per 1,000 impressions or something else?

Personally I wouldn't recommend any. If you have some time it's always better to research and contact owners directly. If it doesn't look like they offer advertising spots there's a good chance that you can get a fantastic deal.

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MarketingVet09

13 years ago

Originally Posted by zomex

Personally I wouldn't recommend any. If you have some time it's always better to research and contact owners directly. If it doesn't look like they offer advertising spots there's a good chance that you can get a fantastic deal.

Jack

So you're saying, if they dont normally sell advertising spots, they will jump at my offer and give me a good deal so they can make quick money? Just trying to make sure I interpreted that right.

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zomex

13 years ago

Originally Posted by woah316

So you're saying, if they dont normally sell advertising spots, they will jump at my offer and give me a good deal so they can make quick money? Just trying to make sure I interpreted that right.

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That's not what I said at all. What I'm trying to say is don't rule out a website if it there isn't any signs of advertising as that's the type of situation that's going to get you the best deal for your money providing your research is accurate.

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rusty1027

13 years ago

Originally Posted by woah316

Hey, I know I said targeted earlier, but what about those things that say like "10k visitors for $10" and stuff like that? Do those visitors actually SEE your website, or is that just something to help inflate your stats?

These type of services are usually sending garbage traffic such as exit traffic - which is the most useless traffic on the planet. I got roped into one of these services once and they sent me over 20,000 visits in one day. Number of conversions = 0.

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MarketingVet09

13 years ago

Originally Posted by rusty1027

These type of services are usually sending garbage traffic such as exit traffic - which is the most useless traffic on the planet. I got roped into one of these services once and they sent me over 20,000 visits in one day. Number of conversions = 0.

lol, wow. Point taken.

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John Romaine 13 years ago

Originally Posted by WillR

It sounds great on paper but it's not as easy as that in practice. I tried that method a long time ago and gave up pretty quickly - not worth the hassle.

I did it last night without any hassles
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DavidTT

13 years ago

Originally Posted by ramone_johnny

1. Go to youtube.com
2. Type in your main keyword.
3. Sort videos by view count
4. Find the top videos by view count and offer each member $100 to put your link in their video.
5. Almost gauranteed traffic.

Good luck

hmm did you already try that? sounds like a good idea.

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KatyaSenina

13 years ago

Originally Posted by ramone_johnny

1. Go to youtube.com
2. Type in your main keyword.
3. Sort videos by view count
4. Find the top videos by view count and offer each member $100 to put your link in their video.
5. Almost gauranteed traffic.

Good luck

Usually those top videos are promotional videos, so it's only the question whether the video owner is willing to replace his own link with yours for $100.

Also, I strongly doubt the traffic is very targeted and willing to pull out their credit card. I don't speak from experience, but it just doesn't click with me. Especially not if someone puts his links on funny and entertainment videos.

But I'm sure it works wonders for CPA offers.

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Bane

13 years ago

I'm sorry, I know there are two camps about this but I seriously can't resist.

Stick with tried and true methods

Seriously?

If you want to make the huge bucks in this business, being a sheep is not the way to make it. Innovate, create, and constantly be pushing the envelope 24/7.

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MarketingVet09

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Bane

I'm sorry, I know there are two camps about this but I seriously can't resist.

Seriously?

If you want to make the huge bucks in this business, being a sheep is not the way to make it. Innovate, create, and constantly be pushing the envelope 24/7.

Bane, do you know any outside the box methods? I mean I could easily say "put a banner on a weightloss forum", but im trying to think of ways to get the biggest bang for my buck as possible..

Honestly haven't seen any suggestions that I didn't already know myself, unless it really just makes THAT much sense to just place a banner ad and shut up (lol). maybe it's a little slow on saturday morning..

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Bane

13 years ago

Originally Posted by woah316

Bane, do you know any outside the box methods? I mean I could easily say "put a banner on a weightloss forum", but im trying to think of ways to get the biggest bang for my buck as possible..

Honestly haven't seen any suggestions that I didn't already know myself, unless it really just makes THAT much sense to just place a banner ad and shut up (lol). maybe it's a little slow on saturday morning..

My entire business is making out of the box methods. I try to make sure that 100% of the time anything that I personally come up with has either never been tried before or has never been tried successfully before.

I used to do all that SEO crap where I'd build up the websites, seo, backlink, article create - and sure, there is profit to be had there. It is a GREAT starting step to make you realise 'oh snap, I can actually make money online' But generally speaking you have to juggle so many hats that only the seriously good or the team oriented people have a hope in hell of making anything great.

PM me with this thread url and I will sleep on it - I'm sure I'll bring you something very original in little/no time.

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WillR

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Bane

I'm sorry, I know there are two camps about this but I seriously can't resist.

Seriously?

If you want to make the huge bucks in this business, being a sheep is not the way to make it. Innovate, create, and constantly be pushing the envelope 24/7.

There is so much traffic available right now as we speak (if you know the right places to look) that you don't need to innovate or be a pioneer. I would much rather get on with selling and creating more products than trying to look for cracks in the system - especially as there is no need.

As for making huge bucks in this business not being possible for sheep, I ask you this. Why are the most successful marketers online all using the same tried and true methods that have been working for years and years now?

Product launches and email marketing.

That's all they use to create their millions and that's all anyone needs to create their millions. Go and over-think this if you like but you won't make it to the millions as quickly as the sheep who just follow what the gurus are doing and replicate their success.

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Bane

13 years ago

Originally Posted by WillR

There is so much traffic available right now as we speak (if you know the right places to look) that you don't need to innovate or be a pioneer. I would much rather get on with selling and creating more products than trying to look for cracks in the system - especially as there is no need.

As for making huge bucks in this business not being possible for sheep, I ask you this. Why are the most overtly successful marketers online all using the same tried and true methods that have been working for years and years now?

Product launches and email marketing.

That's all they use to create their millions and that's all anyone needs to create their millions. Go and over-think this if you like but you won't make it to the millions as quickly as the sheep who just follow what the gurus are doing and replicate their success.

Fixed your post there, Sir.

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shuvo

13 years ago

You may hire a high professional from freelancing site for several weeks and he will drive quality and targeted traffic for you.That is I think the best way to go if you don't want to use ppc.

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13 years ago

Originally Posted by shuvo

You may hire a high professional from freelancing site for several weeks and he will drive quality and targeted traffic for you.That is I think the best way to go if you don't want to use ppc.

Thanks but.. I dont know if this is too much to ask but, how would he be driving traffic?? (confused)... I've heard of SEO optimization, but not paying someone to drive instant traffic to a site..

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Rukshan

13 years ago

Mediabuying is a good option for you.

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MarketingVet09 13 years ago

Originally Posted by blog8491

Mediabuying is a good option for you.

Hello. Excuse my ignorance, but which form and what route would you suggest (if you can?). I believe media buying is another way of saying tv / radio / online / print ads? please correct me if I'm wrong
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Marx Vergel Melencio

13 years ago

Originally Posted by woah316

[SNIP]I'd like to know you guys suggestions on the best way to spend $300 to get some instant, targeted traffic.. If It helps at all It'd be in the weight loss niche. I do not want to use PPC, as it's really not profitable for my situation. I need something where I can spend $300 and get a load of traffic (if possible?) Any suggestions are welcome.. Even using a bot if that's what you suggest (I understand a bot would not be as instant as say, just paying for a banner, but thats ok).. Other things that crossed my mind were getting a paid banner for a certain amount of time on a forum, using a big ad network for displaying my banner on sites, a joint venture email blast(s) etc And with your suggestion, how many visitors do you think I could get with the $300 ( a ROUGH estimate of course...) Thanks in advance for your help[/SNIP]

I for one will do this if I were in such a situation you described above:
1. Go to Google and search my target keywords.
2. Identify the top 20 or so pages which are the most relevant to my target keywords, have the highest daily targeted traffic, have large mailing list subscriber bases, have the highest domain authority and credibility in topics covered by my target keywords, and allow people to contribute relevant, timely, popular and useful content on those pages and on their other ppages.
3. Identify ebook ideas which would be useful for their daily visitors in providing unique benefits for their needs and problems relevant to your target keywords. Identify mini software application ideas which would also provide their visitors with unique benefits. By "unique", your ebook and software applications should provide their visitors with benefits that are not provided by their websites and pages. Example Ebook Idea: An ebook written by a person with proven expertise in weight loss topics. Ebook should offer a 20-day natural weight loss program via a set of exercise and daily diet systems that allow people to easily and quickly follow the exercise and daily diet systems while still enjoying themselves, their time and what they eat regularly. Perhaps a good natural way to lose weight that can also improve their overall health as well as prevent diseases and fatigue are daily diet systems with balanced alkaline-forming (70%) and acid-forming (30%) food that would still be enjoyable for everyone to eat regularly as well as easy daily exercise systems they can do with their friends, family, pets and colleagues. Example Mini Software Idea: A body mass-weight-height, body acidity and body alkalinity ratio calculator offering precalibrated recommendations from studies of people with expertise in the weight loss niche and in other relevant medical areas for each result they get. Of course, home remedies to get acidity and alkalinity should be provided so as for their visitors to know how to accurately get their body acidity and body alkalinity values without buying equipment or gadgets and without going to clinics for such checks (though recommend this to be the best way to get accurate body acidity and body alkalinity values). Of course, those instructions should be from people with expertise in the weight loss niche and other relevant medical areas.
4. Use $50 to develop the ebook with useful and timely content including graphics/images. I'll consult medical professionals, friends and referrals included, with expertise in relevant medical areas, and also ask their permission to have their names included in the ebook I'll be developing. I'll research about relevant and updated information necessary for the development of the ebook. I'll write down relevant things I learn from consulting such medical professionals and extensively researching about relevant topics for the ebook. I will send this to someone with a proven expertise of writing softsell content marketing materials which establish the reputation of the author as a friendly expert source of relevant, timely, popular and useful content/info/advice. Include necessary links pointing to content pages of my site offering unique supplementary info/advice/benefits relevant to my target keywords and audience.
5. Use $50 to develop the software, branded for my business.
6. Offer the ebook as a freely downloadable product upon signup to my mailing list. Offer the software on my website with an easy "publish on your website" function, of course with my links.
7. Contact the webmasters of the sites I identified in number 2 above and exchange the ebook and software with banner ad-anchored links placed on their sites and mailing list letters.
8. Pay someone $200 to regularly contribute relevant, timely, popular and useful content on the relevant forums you found in number 2 above, without placing links when it is not necessary to do so, in 2 weeks. This person should have expertise in relevant medical areas. The signature box content with keyword-anchored backlinks of those forum accounts should be written effectively. I'll also ask this person to write relevant softsell articles offering timely, popular and useful information/advice/benefits for my target audience, for submissions to the top 5 or 10 or so article directories, especially with high ranking high domain authority high Google PR high traffic article directories focusing on relevant categories and topics (in this case, health & fitness),with the resource box links pointing to my content pages, squeeze page (if allowed by article directory since my squeeze page will be written in a way which will provide supplementary info/advice with unique benefits not found in my articles) and software (if allowed by article directories since my software will have written content offering supplementary info/advice with unique benefits not found on my articles).

Traffic Projections

Prereq 1: Target keywords with a collective global monthly search volume of 10000 searches, a collective competitor domain strength of Google PR 3 and a collective competing page strength of Google PR 2 (top 20 search results for each of the target keywords).
Prereq 2: 10 out of the top 20 page results are sites allowing content contributions with links and business name from content contributor. The collective traffic volume is projected to be 1000 unique visitors per month.
Prereq 3: 10 out of the top 10 page results are sites which do not allow content contributions from users. All 10 agreed to publish my ebook and software on those pages along with my business info, contact details and links pointing to my content pages offering supplementary info/advice/benefits not found on their pages nor on my contributed content. They also agreed to place my banner ad-anchored links and business info as well as contact details on their mailing list letters. They have a projected collective traffic volume of 1000 visitors per month and a collective mailing list subscriber base of 2000 people.
Prereq 4: 10 of the sites allowing content contributions from users agreed to place my banner ad-anchored links, business name and contact details on their mailing list letters. They have a collective mailing list base of 2000 people.
Prereq 5: 10 relevant forums where person I hired contributes relevant, timely, popular, useful and unique info/advice/content/benefits have a collective membership volume of 10000 people.
Prereq 5: After a month, my articles published on article directories have a collective search result placement (for my target keywords) in page 1, position 3, and get 1000 views.

Conservative Projected Collective Traffic After a Month: 4000 Views
Conservative Projected Conversions (dependent on sales page content, squeeze page content, products and services relevant to the needs and problems of target audience, in this case, let's say website visual impact, website navigability, website accessibility, content richness standards, placement of CPC and CPA ads/offers, squeeze page content and offer, sales pages, product/service delivery/pricing/rewards/moneyback guarantees/testimonials/payment and order processing options, buyer demand urgency and volume = excellent): 25%

Hope this helps.

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donhx

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Marx Vergel Melencio

I for one will do this if I were in such a situation you described above:

4. Use $50 to develop the ebook with useful and timely content including graphics/images. I'll consult medical professionals, friends and referrals included, with expertise in relevant medical areas, and also ask their permission to have their names included in the ebook I'll be developing. I will send this to someone with a proven expertise of writing softsell content marketing materials which establish the reputation of the author as a friendly expert source of relevant, timely, popular and useful content/info/advice. Include necessary links pointing to content pages of my site offering unique supplementary info/advice/benefits relevant to my target keywords and audience.

$50 buys all this? Hmmmmm. :confused: I'll take two.

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