So you are looking to buy website traffic for your website. I bet you have often seen the ads, “100,000 visitors to your website for only $10.95!” Sounds great doesn’t it? Often used lots of these ads and even know which one to get, am I right? Well, I will tell you everything you should know, so sit back, relax and study on.
How to buy Traffic.
You don’t.
Listen up, it’s not necessary to. Its every one is a scam. There are lots of versions of this scam, but they all produce the exact same results, that is, you will waste your cash. Now when I begun I fell for this trick as a few of you might have already, or could be about to. Allow me to explain what you are getting. Here is the worst possible traffic ever online. Its so bad mainly since the majority of it is not even traffic.
In most cases that you are finding cash for some guy to place your URL into a script that pings your server and records a “hit” on your stat counter. This is not really traffic, this is just creative scripting that fakes your hits.
There are those that just take your dollars and give you a special “control panel” which makes the details rise all the time you log in but there is nothing ever transport to your websites, not even empty data packets.
Expired domain traffic. Now this kind of traffic seller is a touch harder to find, but a legitimate one can possibly supply some real junk traffic to your web sites just as well. Now you may well be getting actual visits, but they are worthless. Why? First you need to understand how this works. Bob has a domain that at one time had a website placed on it, the site had back-links and search engine traffic, but bobs website went bust so now the domain name ends up in the hands of the traffic seller. The traffic seller takes good thing about web site that traffic is still coming into, but simply redirecting or forwarding it to your site. Sounds good right? Well, the condition with this is, to ensure that the traffic seller to generate targeted traffic, they would have to maintain a GoDaddy sized database of domain names that are still pumping traffic in every single niche available. Now this is virtually impossible to create and even if people did do it, it might be terribly expensive and most likely end up being an entire loss for the traffic seller. Especially, since affiliate marketing website with no actual website attached to it provides a very short lifespan. So instead, they have a few domains, and those who are closely related end up visiting your site. However this is off a redirect, meaning someone clicked a link to get to one place and ended up at yours. Most, if not completely, will click off your site at this time. Plus, for the money you would spend for this service, you’ll be able to easily go and buy the expired domains yourself, for way less and simply pay once to register the name.
Then there is Auto-surf traffic. This is how people enroll, and enter their website into this script that’s basically an automatic pop-up ad machine. It shows an online site then after 30 seconds or so, it clicks completely to another, again and again. The secret was to far superior over a banner exchange. Instead of for each banner you show, one of yours gets shown, its trying to do it with your home page. So bob clicks in and keeps the auto-surf site up and lets it search web sites in the exchange while he is out mowing the lawn, and he racks up credits so his site gets shown to others doing the same thing, no wonder bob’s site went bust. Now most people know they are enrolling to this, but I have noticed some traffic sellers passing off auto-surf traffic as one of the other kinds.
Our advice is to step away from traffic sellers altogether. You’re a whole lot more satisfied utilizing your money on legitimate advertising and traffic generation methods, like links and such than even costing you time learning the hard way.
What’s the matter? That ad just sounds so good, you want to try it anyway? I’m suggesting, you are going to get burned. Ok, before you purchase, do yourself a favor. Read through their website, look for a disclaimer. Oh, you will be aware you found it simply because all say the same thing. It is incorporated in the standard traffic scam book. It will say something such as,
“Your counter can’t count all the hits we post you, because our traffic is so awesome and we send so much of it, your stat program wont be able to keep up.”
With the professional stat programs that include almost all hosting accounts today, I sooo want to know where they got this magic counter which could only record their stats, it must remain amazing. That is still the best neon sign saying “Scam” right over the site.
Contemplate it, if your site counter can match 10,000 unique visitors a day why cant it match the 500 they’re selling you? Easy, your counter wont record the “hits” as it wont be receiving any.
Now i want to guess, you’ll find it said that if you need a refund, you have to dig up your server logs and demonstrate to them, then they will be content to refund your hard earned dollars right? Good. Ok, where are your server logs? Do you know? You do? Good, now select where the traffic your website received originated from. Ok, now differentiate between the traffic you got from them and those who originated from your legitimate back links. Do you see where I am picking this?
The traffic company assumes that you either wont know where the logs are or wont want to endure the effort. Then in addition to that, they are hoping that you at least got some traffic from other places to help hide what they claim they sent and what they didn’t.
Look, I am not planning to kill your hopes and dreams. I recently there and done that. I learned the hard way and am now trying to assist you. Count on me on this, avoid buying traffic. If you really need cheap fast traffic, your best bet is pay per click marketing. At least from a PPC campaign you’re going to get genuine traffic.