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

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Hey everyone,

I'm going to see once and for all if purchased traffic is any good at all.

I was searching on eBay a few days back for a deal on hosting and I ran across one of the many auctions selling traffic.

But Wait! This one was different. . They said "This is not your usual junk traffic you see on eBay." "This is real quality traffic."

So I bit the bullet and spent a huge $1.99 for 1,000 "Real Visitors."

So Warriors, what's your prediction?

Sometime within the next day I'm going to set up an MRR Make Money eBook of some kind. I'm going to price it at $7.77 and then I'm going to hit the go live button to receive 1,000 visitors in one day. I'll put a counter on the site to see if I really get 1,000 visitors and the rest will be history.

Tell me what you think will happen with this little experiment. Will I make 0 sales? Will I really get 1,000 visitors? Whatcha think?

George Wright
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  • Profile picture of the author MarkH45
    Your traffic will convert at 40%.

    You will make $2,800.
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  • Profile picture of the author George Wright
    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
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  • Profile picture of the author John Rogers
    My prediction....

    1,000 hits. 0 sales.

    I hope I'm wrong.

    John
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  • Profile picture of the author InternetM39482
    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.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
      I'm going to be optimistic, and believe George will have some succulent copy or video or something on the page, and he will make 5 sales.

      And if he succeeds, I will go buy some bargain basement traffic myself.
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  • Profile picture of the author silvervixen
    You'll get a thousand visitors, but no sales. Bought traffic pretty much sucks for anything else than boosting your stats.
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    • Profile picture of the author Heuristic
      Just make sure that you don't have Adsense on that site, as it is against their TOS.

      Oh, and I predict no sales - been there and done that
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  • Profile picture of the author brancato
    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.
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    • Profile picture of the author theemperor
      The first time I did something like this I made $300 in commissions from $10 in cheap traffic.

      I now realise was luckier than a flukey poker player with a 4-leaf clover in his pocket, holding four 7's and an Ace and with crossed fingers and toes.



      I'll expect you'll make appox $0
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      • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
        Originally Posted by theemperor View Post

        The first time I did something like this I made $300 in commissions from $10 in cheap traffic.

        I now realise was luckier than a flukey poker player with a 4-leaf clover in his pocket, holding four 7's and an Ace and with crossed fingers and toes.



        I'll expect you'll make appox $0
        Wow! But really! Wow! LOL

        I don't believe these things are all just "luck." Like any casino game if you have some knowledge of what you are doing, you can have better odds.

        If these are REAL people going to the site and you have something that is really eyecatching going on I think he can get something.

        Alas, I have never done it, so I will support this "follow me" effort as I want to see even if one sale can result.

        Very exciting.
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        • Profile picture of the author theemperor
          Originally Posted by avenuegirl View Post

          Wow! But really! Wow! LOL

          I don't believe these things are all just "luck." Like any casino game if you have some knowledge of what you are doing, you can have better odds.

          If these are REAL people going to the site and you have something that is really eyecatching going on I think he can get something.

          Alas, I have never done it, so I will support this "follow me" effort as I want to see even if one sale can result.

          Very exciting.
          No it was luck, it was the very first thing I did with my clickbank account, and I googled "cheap traffic" and used the first site I found, and didn't use a landing page, just threw in the hoplink !!!!!!!!!

          Tried 2 more doses of that traffic and nothing

          Here's a screen shot:

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    • Profile picture of the author Lance K
      Are these 1,000 "Real Visitors" targeted visitors looking for "make money" stuff?

      Do the folks that sold you the traffic give you data on how/where they obtained the traffic so you can try to understand your future visitors and craft an offer that's more likely to appeal to them?

      Are you only putting up one version of your landing page, or are you going to split test?

      Are you only going to offer a $7.77 ebook or are you going to split test a squeeze page type arrangement?

      Are you going to hit them with an exit pop for a CPA offer (like the ones for a free $500 Wal Mart gift card, etc.)?

      Based on your explanation, I know the answer. Just trying to plant a few more seeds.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sean Ski
    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author Scott Ames
    Watch your average time someone stays on your site. I predict you'll see a quick drop as these 1,000 visitors drop in.
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  • Profile picture of the author Vadym
    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author KristiDaniels
    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.
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    • Profile picture of the author AndileN
      Originally Posted by KristiDaniels View Post

      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 wonder how they manage to do that, I was actually tempted and I bought a little of that traffic and was very disappointed with it.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeCollins
    I predict a thousand visits with an average time on site of 0:01. No sales.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ken Leatherman
    Originally Posted by George Wright View Post

    Hey everyone,

    I'm going to see once and for all if purchased traffic is any good at all.


    But Wait! This one was different. . They said "This is not your usual junk traffic you see on eBay." "This is real quality traffic."

    So I bit the bullet and spent a huge $1.99 for 1,000 "Real Visitors."

    So Warriors, what's your prediction?


    George Wright
    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"
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  • Profile picture of the author Axel.jr
    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!.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Marshall
    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author mywebwork
    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!

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    • Profile picture of the author Lance K
      I'm predicting that you'll get 1,000 visitors and 20-30 sales. Then when you go to roll out and spend $1,990 to get 1,000,000 visitors from the same outfit, they'll switch you over to the dud traffic and move on the the next mark. Much higher customer value in that strategy.
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    • Profile picture of the author vicone
      Mostly this sort of traffic appears in another frame so it can be sold to someone else and is gone from your site in under 10 seconds.

      Result: You'll probably get the 1,000 visitors who are looking for something very different from what you're offering. So sales will be zero and your statistics for average time visitors spend on the site will plummet.

      On the other hand, if you pay for targeted advertising... well, that's a different story.

      Ivan
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      • Profile picture of the author Paul Hancox
        Originally Posted by vicone View Post

        Mostly this sort of traffic appears in another frame so it can be sold to someone else and is gone from your site in under 10 seconds.

        Result: You'll probably get the 1,000 visitors who are looking for something very different from what you're offering. So sales will be zero and your statistics for average time visitors spend on the site will plummet.

        On the other hand, if you pay for targeted advertising... well, that's a different story.

        Ivan
        You know, IF that's true... maybe the key for that traffic is to use a very simple headline (with no extra copy) and get them to "click here" to find out more.

        At least you then have a chance to convert those few 10 second visitors who do click, or at least get them to opt-in to something.
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      • Profile picture of the author seanyd
        Originally Posted by vicone View Post

        Mostly this sort of traffic appears in another frame so it can be sold to someone else and is gone from your site in under 10 seconds.

        Result: You'll probably get the 1,000 visitors who are looking for something very different from what you're offering. So sales will be zero and your statistics for average time visitors spend on the site will plummet.

        On the other hand, if you pay for targeted advertising... well, that's a different story.

        Ivan
        I hope your right I paid $23 for 1 million targeted visitors , so far (2 days) 100 Visitors = zero sales
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  • Profile picture of the author SeanSupplee
    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author Robert Puddy
    Originally Posted by George Wright View Post

    Hey everyone,

    I'm going to see once and for all if purchased traffic is any good at all.

    I was searching on eBay a few days back for a deal on hosting and I ran across one of the many auctions selling traffic.

    But Wait! This one was different. . They said "This is not your usual junk traffic you see on eBay." "This is real quality traffic."

    So I bit the bullet and spent a huge $1.99 for 1,000 "Real Visitors."

    So Warriors, what's your prediction?

    Sometime within the next day I'm going to set up an MRR Make Money eBook of some kind. I'm going to price it at $7.77 and then I'm going to hit the go live button to receive 1,000 visitors in one day. I'll put a counter on the site to see if I really get 1,000 visitors and the rest will be history.

    Tell me what you think will happen with this little experiment. Will I make 0 sales? Will I really get 1,000 visitors? Whatcha think?

    George Wright
    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
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    • Profile picture of the author Liam Hamer
      I predict nine hundred and something visitors, and I think you might get lucky and get a sale or two :p Very interested to see what happens
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  • Profile picture of the author Frank Bruno
    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



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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      My prediction:

      The vendor's site will show 1,000 visits delivered. It will be spread over 5-7 minutes.

      Your own stats will show less than 1,000, the average time on site will be under 10 seconds, and you will make zero sales.
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    • Profile picture of the author ebizman87
      Why NOT set up a squeeze page,capture leads, WARM THEM up with a mini video and then lead them to a salespage?

      You're going to BUILD a list anyway, why NOT start it from the beginning?

      Since it's a $7.77 ebook ,I believe that you might sell a lot if you captured leads from the beginning..
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  • Profile picture of the author terenceyang
    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.

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  • Profile picture of the author KristiDaniels
    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.
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    • Profile picture of the author JayPeete
      Originally Posted by KristiDaniels View Post

      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.

      While I would like to see you make at least 1 sale, I believe Kristi is right.
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      • Profile picture of the author Sandor Verebi
        Hi George,

        I could not resist:

        "Question: How old are you beautiful blond prince?

        Answer: I'm 25.

        Question: 25? And then you believe in the tales?"

        My prediction: You'll get nearly 1000 'hits' of a bot, without any sales. (If only I would be wrong.) Try to send this traffic to a squeze page. This way you can test this kind of 'offer'.

        Good luck!

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  • Profile picture of the author Frank Bruno
    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
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  • Profile picture of the author J Bold
    You will not make anything with this traffic.

    That's my prediction and I'm sticking to it.
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  • Profile picture of the author MoneyRaker
    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!
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  • Profile picture of the author GoGetta
    Ima go with 2 sales!

    Under a 1000 hits though!

    Interested to see what happens!

    GoGetta
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    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.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jays80
      I will go with 0 sales and less than 1k hits.Hits mostly from Non English speaking countries.
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  • Profile picture of the author lharding
    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!
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve Powers
    Well,what's the result?I guess,the number is the number,but no orders.It's a trick?
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  • Profile picture of the author BenShaffer
    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?

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  • Profile picture of the author milan
    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.
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    • Profile picture of the author TelegramSam
      There's not enough information to make an educated guess.

      It mainly depends where the visitors come from and if they are targeted.

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  • Profile picture of the author Sandeep Shah
    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
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  • Profile picture of the author Matt Gannon
    Probably a bot net! We will see though, I am very interested in what might happen!
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  • Profile picture of the author Preben Frenning
    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...
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  • Profile picture of the author icyimp
    1000 or more hits. No sales. Average time on the site 0.15 sec....
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  • Profile picture of the author Dennis Wagoner
    My prediction: You just lost $1.99
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  • Profile picture of the author Frank Bruno
    So why don't you give us an update George? Curious minds want to know...

    Frank Bruno
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  • Profile picture of the author ishan
    I will predict 0 sales!
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  • Profile picture of the author marksinclair
    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.
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    • Profile picture of the author fraktal
      3 email requests for more info of which 0 will turn into sales. Counting your pre-sales support time, you will take a loss greater than your original investment.
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  • Profile picture of the author KristiDaniels
    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author mywebwork
    Any updates on your success (or lack of it) George? I've been itching to hear the results!

    Bill
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    • Profile picture of the author George Wright
      Originally Posted by Paul Hancox View Post

      You know, IF that's true... maybe the key for that traffic is to use a very simple headline (with no extra copy) and get them to "click here" to find out more.

      At least you then have a chance to convert those few 10 second visitors who do click, or at least get them to opt-in to something.
      Originally Posted by mywebwork View Post

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

      Bill
      Hi All,

      I got so much food for thought from all the posts in this thread that I've decided to "really" try to make this work.

      If there is any chance of even one live person reading the page I want to "get them."

      I'm going back to the old Allen Says method of a direct response sales page and a chance for them to buy.

      I'll test another $1.99 worth later for the opt in suggestions.

      I've been invited out to dinner so I'll continue to work this when I get back. I know the stuff below is cheezy but I'm trying to appeal to non IM marketers who might be interested in IM.

      Here is What they will see IF I get any real visitors. (NOTE: This is for discussion purposes and not really an offer to anyone here on the WF)

      Tell me what you think.

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      NOTICE: This is an Internet Marketing Test. I Paid For You To Come Here. It Will Pay YOU to stay. Read on.

      Who Else Wants To Get More Than $1,000 Worth of Make Money, Internet Marketing Products for under $10.00 (That's right, under TEN DOLLARS.)

      If you do then you have come to the right place.

      This is a Marketing Test and ONLY 10 of these packages will be sold at this price.

      Don't let anyone grab your spot. I promise there will only be 10 sold.

      Buy Now Button Will Go Here

      This Is Not a Joke, Scam, or Hype. Ten packages ONLY will be sold then this offer will be gone FOREVER.

      Inventory control is on and when buyer # 10 hits the buy now button this offer will be SHUT DOWN FOREVER.

      What are you getting here?

      You are getting a complete Business in a BOX.

      You get a valuable report on how to sell Master Resell Rights Products.

      But wait! There's MORE.

      What good is knowing how to sell them if you don't have any Master Resell Rights Products to sell?

      Not a PROBLEM because; You not only get the Fabulous eBook ....... But you also get 30, YES THIRTY other eBooks and Videos to sell for retail or wholesale and YOU Keep All The Money. These eBooks and Videos are ones from which you can not only LEARN but you can also EARN by selling them.

      Here is what you get! (Warning: Go ahead and check out the products below but don't take too long. Your Spot Could Be Sold By The Time You Get Back.)
      • Master Resell
      • Credit Repair
      • Viral Marketing
      • Article Marketing
      • Instant Credibility Revealed
      • Keys to a Secret Vault where one new product will be added every day for the 30 Days during this test. At the end of this Marketing Test you will be the proud owner of over 30 quality products you can resell and keep all the money.
      Buy Now Button Goes Here


      Don't think this is a HYPE or JUNK offer; "The Vault" has many current satisfied members and has been in operation for over TWO YEARS. Others pay $20, $30 and even $40 or more a month of similar Marketing Vaults.

      THIS IS PART OF A MARKETING TEST TO ADD ONLY 100 NEW MEMBERS TO OUR MAIN VAULT. THIS OFFER WILL ADD a Potential 10 of THOSE 100 NEW MEMBERS. You will not be billed or charged for the additional membership unless you join. You may join at the end of 30 days ONLY IF YOU WANT TO.

      IF your spot is gone at this low price don't blame me. Now is your chance to have an online business for the price of a cup of Starbucks.

      George Wright

      END OF MARKETING TEST.

      Buy Now Button Goes Here

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  • Profile picture of the author camalus1026
    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 ?
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  • Profile picture of the author ToniMaltano
    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author drmani
    Originally Posted by George Wright View Post

    So I bit the bullet and spent a huge $1.99 for 1,000 "Real Visitors."

    So Warriors, what's your prediction?

    George Wright
    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

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  • Profile picture of the author minted1
    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.....
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  • Profile picture of the author sarah_may
    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author Robert Puddy
    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

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  • Profile picture of the author grandstar
    I have been there, done that.

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

    It was a learning experience!
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    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
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    • Profile picture of the author Robert Puddy
      Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

      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
      See this thread makes me laugh, everyone in it using the phrases steve is SCAM... and bypassing this

      take it from me, who built a FULL TIME BUSINESS with this type of traffic... its lead generation only
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      • Profile picture of the author seasoned
        Originally Posted by Robert Puddy View Post

        See this thread makes me laugh, everyone in it using the phrases steve is SCAM... and bypassing this
        Are you saying something against MY post? Do you NOT think it is a scam, or what?

        There are only a FEW ways to do this. MOST, at this point, really are scams. Others are either dangerous, or would cost more.

        I guess we will find out. But HEY, you know me. Sometimes I DO have a freudian slip. Sometimes it is a mistake(and NOT necessarily a freudian slip), sometimes intentional, and sometimes I don't bowdlerize my comments! 8-(

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  • Profile picture of the author Mission0ps
    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
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  • Profile picture of the author KristiDaniels
    You are really milking this thread for all it's worth aren't you George?

    Why don't you post the results?
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  • Profile picture of the author Liam Hamer
    This is quite the cliffhanger Curious for an update too
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  • Profile picture of the author hotftuna
    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author AvidAZ
    I'll guess 0-1 sales.
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  • Profile picture of the author whateverpedia
    Originally Posted by George Wright View Post

    Hey everyone,

    I'm going to see once and for all if purchased traffic is any good at all.

    I was searching on eBay a few days back for a deal on hosting and I ran across one of the many auctions selling traffic.

    But Wait! This one was different. . They said "This is not your usual junk traffic you see on eBay." "This is real quality traffic."

    So I bit the bullet and spent a huge $1.99 for 1,000 "Real Visitors."

    So Warriors, what's your prediction?

    Sometime within the next day I'm going to set up an MRR Make Money eBook of some kind. I'm going to price it at $7.77 and then I'm going to hit the go live button to receive 1,000 visitors in one day. I'll put a counter on the site to see if I really get 1,000 visitors and the rest will be history.

    Tell me what you think will happen with this little experiment. Will I make 0 sales? Will I really get 1,000 visitors? Whatcha think?

    George Wright

    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?
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  • Profile picture of the author Prashant_W
    Nada baby!

    You'll get squat in terms of sales... should get 1000 hits though.
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  • Profile picture of the author KristiDaniels
    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?
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    • Profile picture of the author George Wright
      Originally Posted by whateverpedia View Post

      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?
      Yea, you are right about that Whateverpedia. Actually I've been here every day and night since the mid 1990s. I've made probably 8,000 posts. (some of the old Warrior Forums didn't count posts.) And I probably repost in about 10 or 20% of my threads. Reposting in your own threads used to be called bumping in the old days and was a practice frowned upon. I don't do it unless I have something else of value or funny to add and so far I don't.

      Originally Posted by kowarrior View Post

      The guy's been on here everyday and never responded to this thread and posted his results. Same old same old!
      Hey kowarrior, see my reply to whateverpedia.

      Originally Posted by KristiDaniels View Post

      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?
      KristiDaniels: What promised results are you referring too?

      As far as keeping my word, I said early on that some Warriors who I respect gave me food for thought about this little experiment and I changed my mind about just throwing up a junk offer.

      As you can see in prior conversations in this thread it was suggested that I use this experiment to start a list, make a more quality offer, do tracking, (you even suggested something about a java script, the subject of which is prolonging my research as I know nothing of such things.)

      And as far as "Milking this thread," I've not bumped it once just to milk it. I did joke around early on in post 3 something I do often. Also I did respond one more time to something that needed responding to. And now I'm making this post in answer to some rather odd demands for "my promised results" (I made no promise to post results) and a rather flattering chronicle by whateverpedia as to the history of my thread. (thanks for noticing )

      I will say this, as a direct result of my $1.99 purchased traffic experiment I have made over $100 so far. How? OK, now I will make a promise. I will tell in detail how this whole thing turns out. When? When I'm ready.

      Thanks all for your interest in this.

      George Wright P.S. Just a heads up. I've noticed threads that take the path that this one has taken usually get locked or deleted. That is not my intention or hope, however it happens. So when I'm ready to tell all, I'll figure out how to get the word out and no, it won't cost you anything.
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      • Profile picture of the author Buildingfutures
        George, I respect you and wish you nothing but the best.

        And now I want to know what kind of copy you used to get these visitors to hand over their cash!

        CAuse I'm thinkin' you did something a little more than just what you posted in this thread.

        But I like it, you made some money off of it, I'm sure you're going to do some more real marketing (at least to rank and get it kind of automated) when the traffic is done, and head on over to your other stuff.

        But please, yes, when you're ready, I'd love to learn what you did.
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      • Profile picture of the author Brian Tayler
        Originally Posted by George Wright View Post

        I will say this, as a direct result of my $1.99 purchased traffic experiment I have made over $100 so far. How? OK, now I will make a promise. I will tell in detail how this whole thing turns out. When? When I'm ready.
        George,
        I've always looked forward to your posts, and I'll continue to look forward to your update.

        Even making your original investment back of $1.99 would have been astonishing. I'm curious if the $100 had nothing to do with the traffic itself. I guess we'll see.

        As always, thanks for your posts as they are much appreciated.
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        • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
          All I know is YIPEEEE! George made some money.

          Works for me.

          I'll be excited to see how/where.

          Please don't lock this thread.

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  • Profile picture of the author Zack Lim
    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.

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  • Profile picture of the author cashcow
    I will say this, as a direct result of my $1.99 purchased traffic experiment I have made over $100 so far. How? OK, now I will make a promise. I will tell in detail how this whole thing turns out. When? When I'm ready.
    Hey, that's pretty cool. OK, I'm dying to find out what you did now!

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  • Profile picture of the author TommyBoy
    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...
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  • Profile picture of the author CPA
    $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.
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  • Profile picture of the author opportunites
    Wow! you are awesome!

    Very good result!

    I would like to know more about it!
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    • Profile picture of the author cathyanderson
      Congrats George, please let us know how you did it. We're all interested in hearing the details.

      Thanks,
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  • Profile picture of the author Arbitrager
    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
    A bot will visit your page 1,000 times.

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  • Profile picture of the author WD Mino
    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
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  • Profile picture of the author CDawson
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    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author opportunites
    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!
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  • Profile picture of the author Daniel Brock
    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...
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  • Profile picture of the author Sue McDonald
    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...........
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  • Profile picture of the author robrudd
    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.
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    • Profile picture of the author whateverpedia
      Originally Posted by KristiDaniels View Post

      So everyone was suppose to predict the outcome, but George never intended to share the results?

      That's a pretty silly game. Let's all predict something and we'll never know if we were right or not.

      Sounds to me like he made $100 by playing all of us here at the Warrior forum. A contact he made while milking this thread resulted in $100.

      He never said he made the $100 from that junk traffic. And he's apparently the master at not saying things.

      I think I remember my 8 year old brother playing that game.

      "I'm thinking of a number between between 1 and 10... guess what number I'm thinking..." he said.

      So I guessed 7. He walked away. I said... "Hey; what number were you thinking of..."

      He (George) said "I never said I was going to tell you. I just wanted to see if I could get you to waste your time guessing."

      What a juvenile game!?!

      Why is everyone kissing his arse after he tricked you into guessing the outcome and then after milking this thread for weeks decides to tell us that he never promised to tell us the results?

      I think that was implied in the rules of the guessing game; wasn't it?

      And then he milks it for more saying that he made $100 by playing this game on us? And maybe he'll tell us how after milking this more for a few weeks (in his own time). And you want to kiss his arse some more?

      When I was 7, I just slugged my brother in the arm and told him what a jerk he was. Now that I've been had at 58 by the juvenile George Wright and see others kissing his arse and saying "trick me again", I don't know what to say.

      Do you really care about $100 so much that you will kiss someone's arse after he purposefully tricked you into wasting your time and looking like a fool?

      OK. Then let's do knock knock jokes... you start by saying "Knock Knock."
      Maybe he had a bet with someone that he could get a pile of people to perpetuate this thread.

      Not that we'll ever know of course.

      I can see a new thread starting soon. "Guess how George made $100 from $1.99 junk traffic". The cycle goes on.
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      • Profile picture of the author George Wright
        Originally Posted by whateverpedia View Post

        Maybe he had a bet with someone that he could get a pile of people to perpetuate this thread.

        Not that we'll ever know of course.

        I can see a new thread starting soon. "Guess how George made $100 from $1.99 junk traffic". The cycle goes on.
        Yes you will know whateverpedia. It has nothing to do with a bet or a one time "contact" as someone mentioned or anything save good old fashioned marketing backed by a solid product.

        And to stop any perception that I was trying to "trick" anyone...

        First of all I'm not that smart. I wish I could have preconceived a thread like this one that would be so viewed and discussed but I didn't it was just an accident. I figured I would get a few "predictions," the thread would move to thread heaven and when I could put the results in some coherent words I'd briefly tell my results to any and all interested Warriors and move on.

        Secondly as I mentioned earlier I plan to tell how the purchased traffic does and also how I made some money as a result of my experiment but I never promised when.

        Third, you said "Guess how George...etc." No one will have to guess. I'll say how.

        Finally, a lot of people gave me some suggestions to implement here and what started out as a lark to throw up a junk offer for some junk traffic and post some fast results (which I frankly thought would be negative) quickly evolved into a project. (Which, overall the "project" has earned me some money.) NO not from the junk traffic, not yet.

        Thanks,

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        • Profile picture of the author whateverpedia
          Originally Posted by George Wright View Post

          Yes you will know whateverpedia. It has nothing to do with a bet or a one time "contact" as someone mentioned or anything save good old fashioned marketing backed by a solid product.

          And to stop any perception that I was trying to "trick" anyone...

          First of all I'm not that smart. I wish I could have preconceived a thread like this one that would be so viewed and discussed but I didn't it was just an accident. I figured I would get a few "predictions," the thread would move to thread heaven and when I could put the results in some choherent words I'd briefly tell my results to any and all interested and move on.

          Secondly as I mentioned earlier I plan to tell how the purchased traffic does and also how I made some money as a result of my experiment but I never promised when.

          Third, you said "Guess how george...etc." No one will have to guess. I'll say how.

          Thanks,

          George Wright
          Excellent.

          Looking forward to it.

          BTW, you really are a tease aren't you.
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        • Profile picture of the author Lance K
          George, no need to justify yourself to the cynics.

          This is the Main Forum (where we talk about making money). This is more on topic than a good chunk of what gets discussed here.

          If people are interested, yet so damn bothered by your time line, they could easily pony up $1.99 to test it themselves and report their own results. And it wouldn't take as much effort as bickering about your alleged intentions with this thread. I guess maybe it wouldn't be as much fun for them though. Perhaps manufacturing scandal > making money for some. :rolleyes:

          Anyway, congrats on the test. Let me know how the second round goes.
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  • Profile picture of the author King Shiloh
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    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author sdentrepreneur
    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Thompson
    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...
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  • Profile picture of the author rapidscc
    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,
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    • Profile picture of the author Preben Frenning
      Originally Posted by rapidscc View Post

      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,
      Probably because most of us have tried it/bought into the "dream" and failed hard.

      The guys selling it says it's "targeted traffic", but what seems too good to be true, usually are.

      That's why
      It has nothing to do with the mindset really, as you need to have an awesome mindset to succeed in internet marketing.
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      • Profile picture of the author cbright
        George I dont know you at all so don't take offense to this, but I see you releasing your results in a WSO and making a killing off it.

        Anyone with any common sense can see it's leading there. But I'm sure alot of people will find it to be a good purchase turning a $1.99 cost into a $100 (if that was the sales amount generated off of the $1.99 bought traffic)
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  • Profile picture of the author sbfc93
    Congrats if you did indeed make over $100 with the visitors, though I think the majority of the time buying traffic is ineffectual.
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