Make a prediction. What will happen with the purchased traffic I bought? :)

Your traffic will convert at 40%.

You will make $2,800.

Hey Mark,

If my traffic converts at 40% I'll delete this thread and never tell.

Not for real. I just thought this would be a fun thing to do to end the week.

George Wright

My prediction....

1,000 hits. 0 sales.

I hope I'm wrong.

John

Price the book at $1,000 and you'll become a millionaire.

I know from first hand experience that's the only kind traffic that converts at 100%.

There's an upcoming WSO on it... keep an eye on it.

...

Seriously though, my prediction is same as that of John Rogers; 1,000 hits and zero sales.

You'll get a thousand visitors, but no sales. Bought traffic pretty much sucks for anything else than boosting your stats.

You will have some traffic, obviously untargeted, so your conversions will be paltry.

I think those "buy traffic from us" companies use contextual advertising to drive traffic, much like AdBrite, but not sure.

LOL - I've tried the whole, "Well maybe everyone's just hiding the fact that traffic packages actually convert". Wrong answer, I played a lot with that stuff in the past...

It's mainly good for black hatters who are cookie stuffing or doing other crazy stuff to inflate their numbers to make things seem more natural...

But anyways No sales and maybe 3 opt-ins if you set up a squeeze page.

Watch your average time someone stays on your site. I predict you'll see a quick drop as these 1,000 visitors drop in.

Lol. They're lying to you.

As others have said, it's the same junk traffic as before. Now possibly in BH form.

A man with respect and 5K posts on this forum buying traffic? I've got some Made-For-Adsense websites I can sell you. They'll make you tons of money, I promise.

Your stats counter will show about 223 visitors. You will have zero sales.

If you put javascript on your page and logged the clicks or even just javascript actually being executed, you will notice a very odd thing. The external javascript file will be loaded, but it will only be executed for about 12 of the visitors you receive.

If you have access to your log files, you will see that the group of visitors is very diverse. They use an incredibly diverse group of browsers and computers according to the user agent strings. In fact, sometimes you may be confused and wonder how that user is running Microsoft Explorer on an Unbuntu linux machine. It will seem very puzzling how there is almost an equal percentage of machines and browsers mixed in the logs.

All of those visitors come from URLs that you can't seem to access or if you can access them, you can't find a link to your site anywhere on the page that supposedly referred those visitors.

I predict a thousand visits with an average time on site of 0:01. No sales.

Hey Mr. GW,

As you failed to consult with the great and majestic, one and only Geezerologist himself and getting the latest and Geezerology, prior to putting yourself and family to living in a box in an alley, located somewhere in the wasteland of New Jersey waterfront, after spending the awesome sum of $1.99 on traffic I predict...

hmmm what are we talking about?

Wait! Wait! I know. Oh crap I forgot again...

George don't forget to take that last roll of toilet paper when you go to the box.

Ken (a.k.a. The Old Geezer)




P.S. copyrighted latest Geezerology word. "IT AIN'T GOING TO HAPPEN"

you must know where is that traffic come from, "it's real human". Yes,,,i was try it on my site,,,human!. But ptc and pop under, so what do you think if you on ptc and click some ads, you will purchase any stuff on any sites that you visited?...

I'll guess NOT!.

My prediction is 1000 visitors and no sales. $1.99 is a great deal to test the waters. If I were in your position, I would have done the same thing.

Hi George

Hey if you get even 1 sale then it paid for itself! But I suspect you'll get nothing, however you'll never know until you try!

Good luck!

Bill

Im going with 0 sales and most likely you wont even see the 1000 visitors. Paying for traffic where you don't even know where its coming from or who is behind it is a huge waste of time and money.

I predict zero sales if you try to sell them something right off the bat

But if you send them to a squeeze page and entice them onto your list for a free gift, i bet they buy things from your auto responder messages

Robert

This really depends on the source of traffic and how targeted this is to your offer but I'll just throw this out there...

You will get 100 page views out of the 1k visitors your suppose to get ( not unique visitors) and the stickness of each visitor will be so miniscule in micro seconds it will be hard to track by any system and you will get no sales

Thats my prediction. lol



Frank Bruno

I am predicting 1 sale. That is for you taking action. This is interesting, I am following to see what happens. Best of luck to you George.

Juice!

The real story:

A vast majority of the traffic is actually 'bots. You know that spyware that sniffs for passwords and sends spam email from your computer while you are sleeping? (OK maybe not your computer, but certainly your aunt bessie's computer, your nephew jake and your granny's computer which are all infected with spyware).

The gangs who write that spyware do so generically. They build what they call a "bot net." Then they sell time on their bot net to other gangsters. The buyers of that time can run processes that spam, perform distributed denial of service attacks, attempt brute force attacks on servers or many other things.

One thing they can run is a traffic bot. That is what you are buying. They run a process on a bot net that tells all of these infected computers to go visit your site, but with random browser information and referer information all spoofed.

You probably didn't think what you were buying was actually that seedy; now did you?

Of course no humans will ever even see your site. The "visits" happen from infected computers when they are still turned on, but not being used by their owners.

But wait... there's more!

You could detect that pretty easily. You could run a little external javascript that just makes an xml call when it runs. If your logs show that the external javascript was loaded, but never even ran then you know you have a bot. It loaded the external javascript to make it look like it was a real browser, but it has no idea how to actually execute it. It is just "visiting" hundreds of sites for it's bot-net operators.

If you received 1,000 visitors that loaded the external javascript, but never executed it, you could easily accuse the traffic seller of fraud. But it isn't that simple.

The traffic has been laundered extensively. It gets mixed together with traffic from several bot nets AND a tiny bit of "real" traffic (usually about 12 visitors out of 1,000) that comes from popunders, iframes or something like that. Those 12 "visitors" never see your site either. Your site is in a 1x1 iframe or was popped under and then instantly closed.

But you will see a tiny fraction who are human and that kills the "every single visitor loaded javascript, but never executed it" fraud argument.

I don't recommend buying this kind of traffic. You really are financing criminal gangs when you buy this stuff. It gets laundered through several people who have no idea where the traffic comes from first, but the final source is the same countries you have banned from purchasing in your merchant account.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

No need to get all technical on us. lol

Besides its too late he already "bot" his traffic..lol

So whats your prediction?

Frank Bruno

You will not make anything with this traffic.

That's my prediction and I'm sticking to it.

Like alot of People I too predict 0 Sales and about 200-300 actual visitors of you've just bought the traffic from a cheap source that may well use PTC traffic.

However if your traffic source is good and genuine - u may get 2-3 sales - thats it!

Ima go with 2 sales!

Under a 1000 hits though!

Interested to see what happens!

GoGetta

You will get 98% conversion rate and soon you will be a gazillionaire!

You will release the mother of all WSOs "How to make a Gazillion Dollars with only $1.99" and soon yo will be crowned King of IM and California, at the same time

But seriously...i am guessing 0-2 sales.

Is there any way you can track how long each visitor is on your page? Also, it'll be over in a flash.

Anyway, my prediction, 1000 visitor, 0 sales.

Good luck anyway!

Well,what's the result?I guess,the number is the number,but no orders.It's a trick?

Let me pose a question here...

I have a few hundred thousand of genuine 404 error visitors a month. I have tried sending them to an Adsense page and also to a squeeze page.

Due to smart pricing, the adsense starts at about 5-10 pounds a day but then goes to around 50cents a day after Google catches on.

I get around 10 -50 signups a day, but not sure how targeted there are.

Are there any generic affiliate programs (non-adult) that you think would work well with this traffic and make me lotsa lotsa?

Ben Shaffer

0 sales, 2 requests for refunds!

You'll get real visitors, each of them gets paid (less than a cent) to view your page. 0 sales for sure.
Why don't you give them a free offer for an opt-in? If you get an opt-in or two you know they were people (not machines) after all. Also, if you get some opt-ins there is a chance you can earn money from this traffic. It's not easy, but not impossible.

1000 hits, not 1000 visitors. It is automated, it is usually bots. You not only wasted $1.99 but also wasted your time. But you may have saved a warrior from doing it in the future

I'll go with 0 sales as well..

Probably a bot net! We will see though, I am very interested in what might happen!

My *prediction*:

- 1000 "visits". (238 of them being "unique2)
- No sales.
- Rediculous bounce rate.(100%)
- No response of any kind

BUT, it's slightly more exciting than a scratchcard (And a lot more work)
Because IF it would actually work (like the "make money fast" courses, people buy them based on their emotions and curiosity. They don't really believe in it, but it might work) it would make you way richer than a scratchcard.

There are houndreds of providers of this kind of service, most of them are scams, but there might be someone who actually works to some extent. (And I wouldn't think they cost $1.99 per 1000 visitors)

Btw, I too, have some "turnkey superultimate adsense sites" that makes me millions every day with a CTR of 78,4% that you can buy for $49.95 for each. (Hosting not included) :p

Just my $1.99...
- preben

1000 or more hits. No sales. Average time on the site 0.15 sec....

My prediction: You just lost $1.99

So why don't you give us an update George? Curious minds want to know...

Frank Bruno

I will predict 0 sales!

The whole concept of "buying guaranteed traffic" is bogus. Just think about it. If you had the ability to send thousands of visitors to any site you wanted at any time, would you sell it to people for $1.99 on ebay? Or would you send it to yourself and make millions? The concept itself is just absurd.

Yeah, that is absurd!

If Google, Yahoo and Live had legitimate traffic, there is no way they would ever sell it to the highest bidder! They would just use it themselves.

Obviously I am being sarcastic. The fact that someone is selling traffic doesn't mean it's fraud. But I have never seen legitimate traffic sold on Ebay without any details.

Legitimate traffic sources always go to great lengths to show you the source of their traffic. That is true if you are buying banner space on a blog or a text link on a search engine or forum.

Selling traffic isn't the red flag here. Lots of legitimate companies sell traffic. selling 1,000 "hits" without wanting to say where those "hits" come from is the red flag.

Any updates on your success (or lack of it) George? I've been itching to hear the results!

Bill

The operative word being hits. There are more than just a few individuals I'm sure that prey on people not knowing the difference (eBay). If you provide your site's URL, I'll wager $1k that you make one sale in the first hour. Deal ?

Haha this is a great idea. I love the "NOTICE: This is an Internet Marketing Test. I Paid For You To Come Here. It Will Pay YOU to stay. Read on." part.

Great idea. I am so damn curious to see what happens.

My prediction:

200 to 300 visitors/clicks
Maybe a sale or two
If you have an opt-in form, maybe 20 opt-ins

Will watch your results to see how close (or not) this is

All success
Dr.Mani

george i would love to say that just for having the balls to even try this method of paid traffic you would at least cover your initial outlay and i really do hope you make a few sales just to prove us all wrong !! but i gotta say mate

1000 visits (maybe )

250+ (unique)

SALES.... ZERO.. please prove me wrong !

really want to see the outcome now.....

Well, I am sure you will get a lot of traffic but not sure about conversion as this type of traffic most time not relevant traffic and for more conversion you need relavant traffic that have chance to result in a conversion.

i think that page is a mistake george...

take it from me, who built a full time business with this type of traffic... its lead generation only. if you try to sell them something straight away it will be a loss. but if you offer them a freebie to entice them onto a list and market that product freom your autoresponder some will buy.

And you have a list you can market more than one product to. they wont be super targetted thats why trying to sell them a product from the page the see wont work well

Putting them on a list and marketing a range of products to them will have a much better result.. up too you though

Robert

I have been there, done that.

And from experience, no sales. All robot visitors. Lost my $10.

It was a learning experience!

Hard to say but, all things being equal....

ABOUT 1000 hits
Short term visits(generally less than 1 minute)
ONE page views
Likely NO sales

HEY, at about 5 clicks for a penny, what can you expect?

This scam generally ranges all the way from autoclick via computer(NO SALES) to enticed manual click(Possibly SOME sales, but it works better with freebies). NEITHER is great.

Steve

I predict no hits, and of course, no sales.

Glenn

I'm sorry to say that you may get the visitors but they certainly won't be buyers Let us know if you bucked the trend and actually got any sales

You are really milking this thread for all it's worth aren't you George?

Why don't you post the results?

This is quite the cliffhanger Curious for an update too

No sales. I have tried this kind of traffic before and I had no results at all. Not even a click on any link on the target page. Seemed like the target page was "hit", but not visited.

I'll guess 0-1 sales.

Hmm.

Your orignal post was on December 11. As at January 3 you still haven't told us what happened.

Your "traffic" should have all been sent to you in less than 24 minutes, but here we are 24 days later and still no results.

Did you ever click the "go live" button?

Nada baby!

You'll get squat in terms of sales... should get 1000 hits though.

Shouldn't you rename this thread to how to spend $1.99 (if you even spent it) to get a lot of attention on the Warrior forum while at the same time destroying your credibility by not keeping your word?

You've been milking this thread for weeks now without giving the promised results.

What's up?

I personally think that you will not get any sales as the traffic that is coming from that cheap package might just be bot traffic.

I think it will be bonus if you are able to get some subscribers from that package.

Zack

Hey, that's pretty cool. OK, I'm dying to find out what you did now!

Lee

I have never gotten any results form buying traffic except from PPC like adwords or MSN adcenter. What i am seeing is a re-emergence of snail mail marketing, particularly postcards.

I don't know about others here, but I used to get tons of junk mail for the "make money" niche. Now I hardly get anything at all, but the stuff I do get I normally at least look at it.

Seems most marketers have abandoned snail mail for IM leaving it wide open again...

$100 yeah right. Junk traffic is not used to sell stuff so don't get your hopes up.

We use this kind of traffic to cover up conversations and such when we have to and get it from good providers.

Wow! you are awesome!

Very good result!

I would like to know more about it!

You sure you make $100 out of it? Damn. Put it on your next wso and we will buy it. Most of the traffic I buy from ppl were bot generated and they sucks so bad. You might be just very lucky to find an honest traffic broker.

A bot will visit your page 1,000 times.

EDIT* Oops, looks like im late to the party

Why would George be untruthful?

If he said he got a hundred bucks he did. just because you can't doesn't mean he didn't Way to go George You had better result then I did that's for sure I think I made around 49.80 or so with ad sense but then hmmm they suspended my adsense account so I made zippo guess they didn't like all the auto traffic they sent me.:p
Anyhow Great Job George
-WD

Well, if they are legit, your traffic will come slowly, probably not targeted at all, and if they are BlueFart, you will probably be getting traffic exchange traffic. Best way is to use the free version of sitemeter to see where all the traffic is coming from.

After all these junk traffic can be useful for CPA tactics! But selling to them is not an easy task!

I would like to know how he did!

Whoa that's amazing!

What was the price of your initial offer? I am suspecting it was a low one, right?

I will definitely have to look into this traffic dump thing in the future. Sounds like it could work...

Hi George Hope you get at least one sale so you get your money back. I believe that you could get 3-5 and that will give you a profit...........

Oh it might all be from a non english speaking country, I had that happen before but i did get a few signups I think 3 out of 10,000.
Even if its not bots or non english visitors, its still untargeted.
Sad to say I predict 1000 (+100 for good measure to cover the hits) and zero sales.

I always wanted to predict that it will take you more than getting 1,000 "real" visitors for you to make any "real" sales but Buildingfutures beat me to it.

So, what did you wRIGHTly do to make something out of the $1.99 worth of traffic? I'm waiting.

Why buy unknown traffic when you can create your own through Social Media, Blogging, Article Writing and Video Marketing. I also think you need 5,000+ visits per day to make any real money in this business.

Great job George. Very interesting thread. I never chimed in, but I thought you'd earn zero also. Harvesting the leads makes sense if that's what you did. Look forward to hearing more. Imagine if you duplicate this over and over in many markets and outsourced the work? Hmmmm...

Hey George

Quite a crowd you stirred here.

By the way, I also didn't replied earlier after seeing that a lot of
people were saying "You won't make anything"...I was thinking...
Dang..are we this negative these days...

We are in the Internet marketing business and most of us said..
"YOU WON'T MAKE ANYTHING!"

I hope you all are getting my point here...

Great to hear that you made something out of it George!

All the best,

Congrats if you did indeed make over $100 with the visitors, though I think the majority of the time buying traffic is ineffectual.