Have you ever purchased TARGETED VISITORS and did it work?

Another question: is it safe to purchase targeted email marketing traffic or is it spam and hosting can suspend your website for spam?

Yes I have purchased so called targeted traffic in the past .. whilst all my analytics stats pointed to it being genuine traffic, Google itself thought otherwise and banned my adsense account as a result.

As far as I am concerned it is a lesson learned and I will definitely NOT buy targeted traffic again, no matter how genuine it appears to be.

I have tried adf.ly in the past... surprisingly I got quite a lot of opt-ins on my squeeze page, BUT it turned out that they were only freebie seekers... pretty bad opening rate when sending emails and no sales at all.....
so it probably always depends on what you want to use this traffic for...

I always experiment with 'cheap traffic.' It almost always fails

You have to clean it up quite a bit (running them through opt-ins etc), but even then there's no guarantees. That said, I assume there are actually some very strong sales funnels out there that can make use of this traffic.

If it was real traffic the sellers would not be selling it!
They would get a far better return using it themselves.

Cheap traffic never works

I target people through social media and I get good results with it,
I have tried those targetted traffic in the past but I never had any success with it, but I've found social media to be very accurate and cheap for getting targetted visitors and getting leads.

I have bought targeted traffic and it has worked.
I have bought targeted traffic and it was worthless also.

Nowadays it is not hard to investigate, find the site you want to use and just
google for reviews and have you used

May be targeted traffic does not work for everyone but you can never say that it will never work. It depends from which sources you are buying the traffic. There are innumerable number of scammers around the web.

25,000 visitors for $25.00 should send up red flag right out of the gate. What I mean is anyone that claims that they can sell you "qualified targeted traffic" knows full well how valuable that is to any business.

Yes, there are some good paid traffic sources out there but you really need to know your market demographics. Depending on the offer and market Facebook is a good place to test.

Another example of a good paid traffic source is Plenty of Fishes ad platform, very laser targeted as far as demographics but obviously not for every offer and or market.

25K targeted visitors for $25. Sir I have a bridge...

Never worked for me. I have come across traffic that even seems to be real - there are clicks on page and bounce rate is low. It turned out that there was no mouse movement of the visitors, which means these were clicking bots. The sellers claim that its popup traffic, redirect traffic and browser bar traffic and who knows what..never worked.
But again 5% of the sellers might be selling legit traffic.

Keep out from them. It's totally waste of time and money.
Regards,
Thomas

I've bought targeted traffic, and have learned that it works best when sending someone to sites that do revenue sharing (ie the more traffic you send your pages, the more money you make).

First of all, thank you EVERYONE for help!

It is NOT for Adsense website. I want to build a direct response sales copy website where I promote new ebook on how to get service clients for your business.

My idea is to sell it maybe for $69.00 because it is actually a real case study on how I did it. All content is written from experience and I seriously never saw any ebook like that out there. In other words, I am extremely confident that anyone who wants service clients will love it and most importantly - will get lots of clients. I use the same what I call now system for people who are just starting out and have no budget, and it works like magic. Again, I am extremely confident in quality of the product. This will not be some "downloadable stuff" written for sole purpose of making money.

Then, I thought if I could just pay for targeted traffic, why bother doing free traffic generation? Especially when you have direct response website?

If website would convert at 3%, then we are talking roughly $207.00 in sales. But wheer can I buy such a traffic? I don't like PPC...

I understand that 25,000 visitors for $25 is not the best traffic, but I was thinking that if you expect to make 1 - 2 sales out of TARGETED 25K, then your expectation isn't crazy, right?

Now, if the traffic is garbage, then yeah... Forget it...

People, I am seriously getting frustrated. Look, I am not in a position right now where I can put good 6 - 8 hours a day in advertising (getting free traffic).

Is there really a source out there where let's say you can spend $10.00 on targeted traffic for direct response website and get at least 1 $69.00 sale? Assuming sales copy is good...

Or should I take a different route here?

By the way, I also wanted to say that getting purely organic Google traffic just by having content works fairly ok for me. So, those people who are in doubt, don't be.

My disadvantage of it is that you have to wait, have a website with lots of pages, do quiet bit of work getting there.

I am at the point where I want to go from making $3K to $10K with direct response websites in different niches without spending too much time. I can do "manually" through Google if I would have time. But just the idea of how much work it would take for me lowers my energy and motivation.

Yes and it was worthless and total crap

I've purchased from two different sources..

One sent me traffic all from the same webpage, my page was used as a 6 second ad before being sent to the requested page.

The second one sent me traffic fom hit2hit.com a traffic exchange.

Needless to say they're total garbage, the only good traffic I've found comes from reputable solo vendors.

If you know of any other credible sources I'm always open to test new things.

Great question.
I dabbled with buying targeted traffic from a few places i.e. Twitter followers; email list ads and the like and literally had no success with this. Twitter messages simply get buried with all the other messages in the person's account; people are tired of receiving emails and/or being sold to. I know I for one am and have opted out of a lot of vendors' email lists because all I'm receiving is one sales email after another and no emails providing good quality content that will further inform me to progress my internet endeavours.

Hope this helps.

If you want to play the paid traffic, consider PPC that best paid traffic method.

Adwords, BingAd.

Ok I think I'll try to launch WSO and see how it goes. At least I am very happy that I'll provide real value to people. I guess everything else will fall on it's place.

My advice:
Do not buy traffic you dont know where it comes from.
Its crap. Gets your adsense banned.

All these things never worked for me or I should say "THEY DO NOT WORK". Why would some one sell traffic ? If its highly targeted traffic as they say then they can easily monetize it and make much more money rather than selling it for pennies.

Just think about it

Yes, I did and it was crap...

I bought some on seoclerks and I was truly disapointed not a single opt in or legit unique visitor

This is a definite true story. I had two google Adsense accounts suspended, and I lost the ability to advertise on Google adwords for this very reason. If you want to buy targeted traffic, do your research, and BE PREPARED TO PAY FOR IT. If you want Real, Geo Targeted traffic, it will cost you. there are very few services that offer the real deal, and I am experimenting with a few right now. (It's a waste of money, but if I find one that hits, I should make it all back, I hope). I will also let people know if I find one as well.

Unfortunatly yes. All crap. Including solo ads.