Have you ever paid for guaranteed visitors to your website?

[MikeGriffith]

I have tried a few sites that sell guaranteed visitors, but with
absolutely no results. This is where you pay a fee in return for a
certain number of visitors to your site.

Even though they provide you with tracking, you still have
no way of knowing whether or not you are getting the
number of visitors you pay for.

Has anyone used any of these services...and if so, what kind
of results did you get. And, would you recommend using these services?

Thanks and have a great day.

[timpears]

Don't waste your money. I did this many years ago when I first tried internet marketing. I might just as well put my money in a pile and put a match to it. You may or may not get the visitors you ask for, but none of them will have chosen to go to your site. You might get a pop under, or over, or something like that. The chance of any of them being interested in what you have on your site is a little less than hitting the lottery.

[nicholasb]

it's a waste of money for sure,

[David Chamberlain]

Hi Mike.

I find it ok if you send traffic to a lead capture page, but not ideal.

Nothing beats organic traffic, I know it can be boring, but get in the routine of writing and submitting articles, blog religiously, comment on blogs in your niche (leave your link), answer questions on yahoo.

They are just a few ways to get the traffic.

They are far better than paying!

Regards

Dave

[Michael Motley]

There is a difference between traffic and qualified traffic

[abs007]

Thats right, the difference will affect your conversion- get qualified traffic and watch your conversion shoot up.

I though that yahoo answers were a no follow

[thekingofwhizz]

Well, I did, at Buyrefs, but very little success. Even the guaranteed signups I bought were not useful, unless you have a similar site where they get paid to click ads. Or if you have a paid to promote site, where you get paid for every unique visitor. However, you always end up paying more than you earn, so that's no way to get qualified traffic. Forums and article submission sites are far better.

Best regards,
Dirk Vanderdonckt

[DavidTheMavin]

Of course, through PPC and even then you get scammed by partners and clickfraud!

[OmarNegron]

NOOO don't use em! they never work...they usually give bad referrals that are non responsive.

[Mrs Z]

It would probably be easier to put up some articles and lenses with links to your site. At least those visitors have an idea of what your site is about and they are visiting because they're interested.

[Craig Fenton]

Hi Mike:

Hope all is well. Guaranteed Traffic has lead many fine people to losing hard earned money because the end result could be either non-target or uninterested folks ending up at your site or unethical software that shows you stats of visits when it is nothing more than the same value as a robot visiting without a checkbook.

Research very thoroughly any traffic oriented website.

Good luck!

[spiceman]

those things are scams... anyone can boost traffic but what's the point if they don't convert

[Lifeimprovement]

If you do the math, it looks like it will work. 10,000 visitors and you just need one $25 sale to cover the cost of the $20 purchase fee. However, from experience it is a waste!

[Brian Tayler]

I've done it as well. Some aren't even real traffic but bots from pools of dynamic IPs (to look like different visitors) the rest are usually just pop-unders (half of which get closed automatically by spam-blocking programs). I've never yielded ONE sale or qualified lead from buying traffic (nor have I heard of anyone elses' success).

[Hesaidblissfully]

I think everybody blows money with those things when they're starting out trying to promote a website. Think about it this way: If these companies had the ability to generate QUALITY, TARGETED traffic to any website like they claim...then why wouldn't they just send that traffic to their OWN website and make many, many times the amount they're charging you?

[consult4u]

i would have to concur with everyone here. You would be better off throwing your money in the street at random strangers as that is about as close as you are going to get to traffic.

[Solidsnake]

Originally Posted by MikeGriffith

I have tried a few sites that sell guaranteed visitors, but with
absolutely no results. This is where you pay a fee in return for a
certain number of visitors to your site.

Even though they provide you with tracking, you still have
no way of knowing whether or not you are getting the
number of visitors you pay for.

Has anyone used any of these services...and if so, what kind
of results did you get. And, would you recommend using these services?

Thanks and have a great day.

pay some decent freelancers who can post your site in forums and social bookmarks... paid traffic is a waste of time and money..

[kronus]

Yes I did indeed. Seems to be a common option for people to try in the early stages
of exploring this crazy world of internet marketing.
My answer is you'd do just as well flushing your money down the toilet.
Avoid.

[MikeGriffith]

Thanks very much, Brian. Very helpful...
Mike

[MikeGriffith]

Thanks, Tim. Very helpful...
Mike

[servpro]

its a waste of money for sure. I tried it years ago and got no results. If you want I can send you thousands of visitors (all spam bots and spammers). I have one site that gets hundreds of hits a day but all spam. Not worth it at all.

[Andy1750]

I read the negative comments about paid hits on this forum. But I just couldn't help myself. Like a fly heading towards the UV light I paid for 10 000 hits. Had just three hops to Clickbank and of course no sales.

Complete and utter waste of money no matter how convincing the sales page.

Thanks,

Andy

[mathiasc]

I've tried popUnderAdvertise. For me, it showed quite a decent result compared to other traffic generating websites.

[Troy_Phillips]

Paid visitors are useless. I set up a weebly site with a free solo to a big list offer. Did no seo or promotion of any kind . I didn't want any other traffic to this site . I paid for 15000 that actually were suppose to come from 404 pages and recently deceased domains . There trackers showed 15000. My trackers actually showed 15080. Not the first sign up . Now I may not be the best copywriter in the biz but come on give me a little credit :-)

[Jason James]

Originally Posted by timpears

Don't waste your money. I did this many years ago when I first tried internet marketing. I might just as well put my money in a pile and put a match to it. You may or may not get the visitors you ask for, but none of them will have chosen to go to your site. You might get a pop under, or over, or something like that. The chance of any of them being interested in what you have on your site is a little less than hitting the lottery.

I did the same thing.. and these are my thoughts exactly. Don't waste your time or money.

[discrat]

Originally Posted by MikeGriffith

I have tried a few sites that sell guaranteed visitors, but with
absolutely no results. This is where you pay a fee in return for a
certain number of visitors to your site.

Even though they provide you with tracking, you still have
no way of knowing whether or not you are getting the
number of visitors you pay for.

Has anyone used any of these services...and if so, what kind
of results did you get. And, would you recommend using these services?

Thanks and have a great day.

A Fantastic way to get your Adsense Account banned from Google !!

[GoldTrack]

I would avoid at all costs - I have tried but personally feel they are all a big fat waste of money with zero results and zero belief that I actually received what I paid for.

[jstover77]

Take it from me....I sell it. If you are looking for conversions, it is a waste of money. If you are looking to pad your stats...good.

[charlesburke]

Yes, I also did the buying traffic bit. Unlike others here, I got definite, measurable results.

It was 2002, and a friend offered me a deal. I signed up for 50,000 visits, and I actually got all fifty thousand of them. But none of them bought anything. Not one sale, not one signup.

As I said, however, I did get real results - my host charged me another 50 dollars to cover the big surge in bandwidth used. So not only was I out the money spent for the "service," I then had to pay again for all the visitors...

Worse than a waste. Avoid this trickery at all costs.

Cheers from warm and smiling Thailand,
Charles

[realoptions]

Don't even bother. They'll take your money deliver no results and not honor whatever refund policy or guarantee they have in place to bait you.

[Raydal]

LOL, that old trick that catch about every newbie!

I tried this about 7 years ago and got all Chinese visitors--no sale.
But it's one of those things that looks too good to be true and is.

-Ray Edwards

[gsport11]

I paid for thousands one time. The company reported that the contract had been fulfilled, my my stats indicated about 60% fewer visitors.

But here's the real kicker: The average time on site was well under two seconds!

My money would have been better spent having a spectacular dinner out and giving the waiter my business card.