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Originally Posted by sonofsam
Can anyone recommend a good mainstream traffic seller?
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It's kind of a loaded question. Are you just looking for bulk untargeted traffic? Are you looking for traffic that is targetted and good for your advertisers?
The problem with bulk untargeted traffic to lets say a real estate site is that a) your click-through-rate on ads will be absolute garbage b) those clicks won't convert and help advertisers. Might not seem like a big deal, but Google now has a thing in place called "smart pricing". This means they are tracking the likelihood of your traffic converting into a sale for the advertiser. If it doesn't, they won't pay you or charge the advertiser nearly as much.
My suggestion to you is not to worry as much about the total traffic amount, but about the quality of the traffic. If you bring in 100 people to your site looking for a mortgage and send 10 leads out, It's better than bringing in 100,000 untargeted who bring in 5 leads.
As for who sells, there are a lot of places. Adwords and Yahoo! Search Marketing are the two most popular. You can even create accounts now at MSN and Ask Jeeves (though the traffic is minimal). You can buy ads from any site on the web by contacting them and asking for ad space. You can buy ads through AdBrite (they sometimes have a real good deals). If you go the bulk route, it'd probably be in the form of popups/popunders. I'm not too familiar with the companies that sell that as I stay away from untargeted traffic.
Hope that helps a little.