Could you use more web traffic?

[tomj]

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Ello all,

Has anyone ever used one of those companies offering ...

"10,000 unique visitors in one month" £30
"100,000 unique visitors in one month" £300

With crap like "we use special URL redirects from expired domains"

and geo targetted traffic re-directs?

I must admit, I tried it ...just for a punt back in november and i think for the £30 i spent, I made £10 back.

maybe my target area of traffic was just poor quality?.

I used http://www.trafficserver.co.uk/

anyone used this type of promotion and had success?

[Mogga]

does it sound too good to be true?

It probably is. If its untargetted then its prb not worth a bean.

[tomj]

mogga, thats the thing, all these places say "targetted" but when I did it the conversions were rubbish.....

[Mogga]

PPC offers targetted traffic if you do it right.


buckets of visitors coming from popunders, popups, poptarts, poprounds, popbangwhallop, exit traffic is generally pants.

[tshirtsuntan]

I tried one of these companies once and it was absolute pants.

It was "targeted" traffic aswell.

I made more money from 36 visitors coming from free search listings than the $50 I spent on 10,000 "Targeted" visitors.

I'd say invest your cash in PPC and write really targeted ads possibly with a negative in the listing for freebie hunters.

[tomj]

yeah, i do enough ppc at the moment....especially with google spannering stuff....adwords are going mad!

what made me post about this "targetted" stuff was i get 40 emails per day from various blaggers trying to con me out of cash!

[tshirtsuntan]

As Mogga said, if sounds too good it usually is.

In the very early days I would try anything for traffic. I gave those startup page rotators like nomorehits.com a bash.

I even downloaded a program that let me open up six different pages in one browser window so I could easily click from one to the other and clock up credits. It was a very wasted two days...