What Is The "Hands Down" Best payed Traffic Service?

The one that has the highest ROI.

In my experience the answer is it depends.

It depends on the business model you are running with the product the niche etc.

The traffic source's that have worked best for me have been

banners

solo ads

Give aways

For me its doing promoted posts on Facebook. The regular ads are terrible. The post has to be something meaningful. For instance, when I release a new royalty free music track, I make a post of it, and promote it. I gets lots of clicks, posts and page likes.

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"homicide clean up business" I though you were joking until I googled it - dang... what a business! Kind of scary to think they are that BUSY.

For a biz like that, I DK if PPC would be the best route as most of the ads are geared towards the training of running your own biz like this. Police will not be searching, they already know who to call.

So, best to go where your audience would be.

You must test test test several paid traffic services, until you find best ROI then you use it several times for more sales or more leads.

PPC. You can get targeted traffic immediately.

In my 12 years of internet marketing... google adwords, by far,
had given me the best ROI.

I've spent $10,000 plus on direct mail, I've done $500 ad buys
in Men's Health and Muscle and Fitness, and have used every
other source of traffic I could find. Facebook, Bing, etc...
and every single time, Adwords beat them all, in a big way,
when it comes to ROI.

I've always believed it's because with adwords, you've
got people who are actively searching for something...
versus most other forms of advertising... you're an
interruption.

However, due to all the "slaps" and bans with adwords,
that source has become tough to use continuously.

So, if I had only one choice... i'd go with media buys
that are targeted to your niche. If you can find a good
media buyer to work with, they can get all the traffic
you can handle... even though you have to have a bigger
budget to start.

Google AdWords. There's a reason Google alone gets 44% of all online advertising spending despite not controlling nearly that large a share of the traffic.

Search engine traffic is the number one either from PPC or SEO (maybe hiring an expert to do the job).

Email traffic. If you manage to get someone to recommend your offer to their list, you get to borrow some of the trust and goodwill that has been built so far between the list owner and the subscribers. So, it will no longer be "cold traffic" and will convert a lot better than the usual methods.

That's what converted best for me so far.

-Gabriel

depends on the offer, there's no #1 best traffic for everyone.

Banner ads and adwords...

This two looks the best choice in my view..what you guys think?

Google adwoprds by far is the best and fastest way to start getting traffic to your offers. blogs, etc...

* Relevant and quality content on your site (you might pay for research and content development)
* Adwords campaigns
* Stumbleupon paid discovery
* Press releases
* High quality content by professional authors (for press releases, other content)
* Content marketing through effective distribution
* Video creation and distribution

Use those things together, consistently - get great results. It's that simple.

I've always been quite fond of banner ads, they have produced probably the highest ROI for my than any other form of paid traffic. Plus I knwo a way to get banners on sites with no money out of pocket. So that is always nice

Very useful thread !

Guys, can any one suggest me how to start with media buys and solo ads ? I have never done them before.

The Niche I'm promoting is IM (which is my signature)

There was a course by Ryan Diess a while ago called penny traffic or something - fb advertising. Anyone use that? Maybe fb advertising is a cheap place to start.

Already said, but it really depends on what you promote.

I found Facebook ads were the best ROI BUT that's because I was targeting people to "like" my fan pages... and I monetised from that point on.

However, If I had used the same advert platform (FB) towards other offers outside Facebook, I would not have gotten such good results.

Adwords...? I lost my shirt with them a few times... so not my best ROI, unlike other warriors here

Definitely Adwords!