What is this thing called ?

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Sometime back one of my friends who is in hosting business told me that he could bring traffic to my blog.

It was something paid and he could bring around 80-100 unique visitors each day.
And the charge was something like $1 per 100 visitors

The friend did not tell me much about it but all he told me was that the traffic was generated by advertising my site on parked domains.

I noticed that the traffic was targetted, the visitors spend quite some time on the site and it even generated adsense clicks and income.

The traffic came from a site called, Vertoz

I dont know what it is.

What is this thing technically called ? and where can i myself buy such traffic ?
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  • Profile picture of the author IamBaksi
    Never heard of that website in my life. But I can see that it offers various forms of Ad options. Contextual Advertising, Mobile Advertising, Pay per text. You can do a quick google search on it and you'll find your answers.

    You should check out Paid Traffic Sources also to get a better idea of which websites to buy ads from.

    I don't have the time now to explain in detail what those terms are but if you want you could send me a PM and I'll gladly respond to you when I'm free later.

    Take care!

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    • Profile picture of the author Christine99
      It is not easy to generate targeted traffic, you have to work hard or simply pay to Google for advertising.
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      • Profile picture of the author lerxtjr
        you have to work hard or simply pay to Google for advertising
        haa, sometimes you pay google and they still shut down your advertising channel, then you're sol. I like the part before the quote I mentioned above where the author says: "you have to work hard."
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  • Profile picture of the author Mark .W. James
    The best, cheapest and highest targetted traffic source I have see are forums. Join a forum related to your niche, post useful stuff, build a rep, redirect them via your signature...

    Or

    Buy ad space on the forums...


    I once JVed on a forex related product.. was selling for $47 and we hardly got sales... adwords and seo were a nightmare cause of the freaking competition....

    we decided that as a final shot to make this a success, lets advertise on one of the biggest forum related to forex... it was expensive i tell you... i had to literally beg the webmaster for 10-12 days for him to give us a average sized spot for $2000 a month!!!.... that was big money for me back then, heck its a big amount for me today as well!

    we upped our pricing to $97 .... first 10 days, 43 sales..
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  • Profile picture of the author conqueror
    If that was so easy one would not work that much for Search Engine Optimization. I personally do not believe in that. Best way to generate traffic is social networks and forums in combination with the Google Ads
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  • Profile picture of the author rosetrees
    I'd never heard of vertoz, so I took a look at their main website. The page you linked to is, in effect, a search page - which initially made me think that they might be spyware. I don't think they are. It's almost impossible to tell what they actually are as their website is full of long-winded, meaningless, corporate blah. For example it tells me that:
    Our management with strategic vision leadership who lead the foundation for a result oriented organization
    Anyhow, I've come to the conclusion that they are probably an advertising network, like 7 Search for example.

    If you want traffic from parked domains, find a few in your niche and try and work out which network they are using. Finding parked domains isn't hard - I suspect that more domains are parked than are actually being used.

    Choose a random domain name and use your registrar to find out which extensions are taken. Then enter those domains into your browser's address bar. You'll find most are just parked.

    As an example, I thought of "how to play chess". Almost all the extensions are taken. The .com goes nowhere. the .net takes you to a godaddy page with ads on. The .org takes you to a parked page with ads. The .info page also has ads.

    These ads work because they either attract type in traffic or because people follow a link to a site that no longer exists.

    I wonder too, but don't know, if people using the Vertoz search box also get sent to parked domains with ads?
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    • Profile picture of the author silverm
      Originally Posted by rosetrees View Post

      I'd never heard of vertoz, so I took a look at their main website. The page you linked to is, in effect, a search page - which initially made me think that they might be spyware. I don't think they are. It's almost impossible to tell what they actually are as their website is full of long-winded, meaningless, corporate blah. For example it tells me that:

      Anyhow, I've come to the conclusion that they are probably an advertising network, like 7 Search for example.

      If you want traffic from parked domains, find a few in your niche and try and work out which network they are using. Finding parked domains isn't hard - I suspect that more domains are parked than are actually being used.

      Choose a random domain name and use your registrar to find out which extensions are taken. Then enter those domains into your browser's address bar. You'll find most are just parked.

      As an example, I thought of "how to play chess". Almost all the extensions are taken. The .com goes nowhere. the .net takes you to a godaddy page with ads on. The .org takes you to a parked page with ads. The .info page also has ads.

      These ads work because they either attract type in traffic or because people follow a link to a site that no longer exists.

      I wonder too, but don't know, if people using the Vertoz search box also get sent to parked domains with ads?
      The traffic did not originate by doing a search at vertoz.
      search.vertoz.com was probably just the proxy in between.

      I guess vertoz serves ads which are displayed by parked domains
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      • Profile picture of the author rosetrees
        Originally Posted by silverm View Post

        The traffic did not originate by doing a search at vertoz.
        search.vertoz.com was probably just the proxy in between.

        I guess vertoz serves ads which are displayed by parked domains
        I think you didn't read my post properly? I said I thought they were probably an advertising network, like 7 Search. I also incidentally wondered if anyone who had that search installed was sent to a parked domain containing their ads.
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  • Profile picture of the author abuhanifa
    If you are looking for cheap targeted traffic then you should try Facebook Advertising . It is not this cheap but cheaper than Adwords and allows landing/bridge pages.
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  • Profile picture of the author diam0nd
    they are adnetwork who auto redirect traffic from publishers website, bad and cheap adnetwork
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  • Profile picture of the author writeaway
    Maybe the better question to ask is: Does the traffic convert?

    Even if you were to get 10000000000 clicks for 1 penny, if none of the 'clicks' convert, that traffic isn't worth anything.
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  • Profile picture of the author Nico Puegher
    It is me or you are just promoting your own site/referral?
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  • Profile picture of the author SunFineHanger
    Hey, Thanks to all for sharing this useful information about thing called.
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