Is my site that bad or does paid traffic really suck?

Where did you get the visitors from? Traffic has to be targeted for the offer or it won't convert.

As soon as you said 2k visitors for $5 the red flag started waving.

Where did you buy this traffic? All paid traffic is not created equal.

Most sources of 'raw traffic' are shady operators selling you confused people 'exiting' other websites, toolbar traffic and the like. They'll bounce off your page hoping to find their way back home like Dorothy in Wizard of Oz. Lost visitors don't buy

I found the traffic company here on this forum. They claim to offer targeted traffic, but i'm guessing the odds of that being true are pretty low.

Forget trying to buy your way to success with pointless cheap traffic sources. You should regularly be doing article and blog submissions, forum signature links, reciprocal links with similar niches, social media marketing, YouTube videos, and a whole lot more. These are methods to attract a steady long term stream of visitors to your site, and not a hopeful quick fix which will leave you both disappointed and out of pocket.

There are plenty of good threads on how and where to get sources of free traffic on WF. Just use the search facility at the top of the page.

Not all paid traffic sucks. Your "visitors" weren't targeted at all. They were probably bots. I did that a long time ago. I built a page where 1 out of 5 people subscribed. I got so excited, I bout a few thousand visitors for a few bucks, and nobody subscribed. That was years ago when I tried Searchfeed and 7Search - nothing but junk traffic. I would call the "help desk", and the only suggestions they would give me was to "load your account with more funds" and try a new ad. Boy was I suckered. Know where your traffic is coming from, and make sure there are real people behind that traffic. More importantly, understand their intentions when they click on your ad and visit your site.

The thousands of visitors that you buy for 1$, 5$ from Fiverr, eBay, etc, are garbage! They're either bots or a Popup traffic! That means the visitors never wanted to visit your site, they were forced to visit it by popping up a separate window with your site. That's why you actually can see people visiting your site, but never interact with it. It's like a spam. In other words, you've wasted 5 bucks.

You must target the traffic if you want conversion or sale. You can also consider redoing your page to get real traffic to visit your site instead of having to pay for it. $5 for 2k traffic volume sounds too good to be true.

Due to all respect, I am quite surprised that with over 105 posts you ought to know by now that paid traffic providers that sell traffic for $$$ usually over promise and under deliver, majority of them are scams, not to mention it costs only $5 for 2000 visitors, it is very CLEARLY that the traffic is some sort of spam. Use your google analytics and I would not be surprised that your bounce rate is over 85% if not higher. Visitors may spend less than 25 sec if not sooner. The problem you are facing is most likely has nothing to do with your site. What you need to focus on is to bring TARGETED TRAFFIC not bulk traffic for $5. I rather have 50 highly targeted customers who are actively searching related product and services compare to having 5000 spam traffic visit my site.

Whatever you are trying to sell, think of it as from your customer's perspective, you want people to active searching for your product and services. Start building a list of target keywords you think your customers might be searching when looking for your product and start building quality backlinks and get your website or money site start ranking competitively in the search engine. Remember if you offer a legitimate product and service, quality link building will pay off in a long run. You will eventually receive steady and targeted traffic which will almost guarantee conversions. Hope this helps. Adam.