Buy targeted traffic : Is it worth it?

I usually find sites that sell targeted traffic for prices such as $2 per 1000 visitors or even less if you buy more.

Is it worth it to buy such a program?

This kind of traffic programs are uselless for the most of the sites.

The most of them are giving you traffic from pop up ads from other sites which is real annoying and the most people wont even take a look at your site.

I had bought a plan like that before some months, in order to check it out, and the results were really dissapointing. A log analysis showed that they send to my site only the 60% of the visitors that they promised me, plus those visitors stayed in my site for about 2-5 seconds.

So I think that this is not a good way to generate traffic, except for some kind of sites that may benefit from it (don't ask me what kinds because I don't know any...)

targetted traffic, do you mean those programs who PAY visitors to visit your site?

No. they give you traffic from pop up ads. Check this site : http://targetedvisitors.info/

I see! Then I guess it is rather useless, because I ignore pop-up ads too. :P

But there are some programs who pay their members for visiting advertisers' sites. I wonder if those would get you any results.....?

Hm. I never knew of this ad method.

Thanks to you guys I'll never get caught in that trap...


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I don't think paying for traffic is the best method to receive traffic. It is much better to get your site listed on search engines because then you will get visitors who have searched for the information on your site.

If you are selling a product and are able to make sales from the traffic you buy I think it is worth it but if you can find another way to get the traffic for free that would obviously be best.

The funny thing about this is that even that the free traffic is free it is better because it is residual. You do your seo or whatever else to get free traffic, and you will continue receiving traffic from these sources forever.

But paid traffic of whatever form(CPC, CPM, expired domains, etc.) is good to kickstart a website.

This advertising method haven't worked for me too, but I've read to another forum that it works fine for sites with smillies or other general content that applies to almost everyone.

Exactly Kotsos.

It all depends on the type of site you have and the content you wish to provide your visitor.

If, say you provide some stuff for free on your site, there is a good chance that paid traffic will work for you but if, on the other hand you want to sell a ebook that costs $47 then this type of traffic is probably useless.

$2 for 1,000 targeted prospects?

If it worked, they wouldn't be charging $2.

Very interesting thought. Also you should have in mind that it is really easy for those "proffesionals" to send you bogus traffic.

yes, most of it is bogus, even with searchfeed, half of the traffic are fake visitors

I will disagree about SearchFeed.

SearchFeed is one of the biggest PPC engines, I don't think that they cheat on you.

Actually they don't need this loyalty risk...

Edit : This was the post #5555!

You mean like pay-per-click and the like? No. I think they're worthless. It's much better to put your links in a directory. Most of the time they're free.

~Crystal

PPC is okay, but you have to babsite your campaigns -- basically constantly monitor your traffic and weed out the eninges / keywords / sites which are providing the most fraudulant leads.

The click bots or whatever they use are quite sophisticated now, but they won't fool you if you know how your natural traffic behaves.

buying targeted traffic by advertising in the major search engines will defintely work, but expensive, while those selling it cheap is just a waste of bandwidth.