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Originally Posted by tres001
I know many webmasters buy traffic and I was wondering if buying traffic is worth the money, even targeted traffic.
Does that kind of traffic convert well, give exposure, help improve PR/SERP or bring any other advantage?.
I always had the idea that that kind of traffic was only good to inflate visitor numbers and send the bounce rate over the roof.
I'd like to hear GFYers before making my mind.
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I would say is not the best converting traffic as you get pissed of visitors that don't really want to be on your site, but buying traffic can make sense in a lot of situations. It can be used also as a part of a wider more complex strategy.
I use to buy traffic in the past when I start a new project just to get a jump start till other more time demanding methods kick in.
Also years back I would put a tgp and buy traffic then start trading with other tgp's then stop buying and have some traffic going trough the trades(who didn't). I remember the first time I did that was for a brand new tgp with no traffic, I both traffic for two days, like 500 or 1000 visitors per hour and spend like 120$, it got the trades going for like 300 uv per day, stable didn't drop, after a month is was already 500uv per day, same month this tgp made 200$ so it was well worth.
In the early days of "x rodent" they were starting "fake" MGP's that have all the thumbs link their videos, there were like hundreds of those fake mgp's, new ones popping all the time, and they were buying traffic to then trade it with other mgp's to basically accumulate traffic on the mpg's before sending it to their main site, way better than just buying directly. Worked like a charm for them ;)
If you just have your site and you are like "lets buy some traffic for it" it won't work, you have as others said have the landing page optimized for it, choose very carefully the sources or have it as a part of a more complex strategy.