Was wondering has anyone used this service before and had a sucess. Also to the owner I know your here you might wanna check this out

http://www.targetedvisitors.info
http://www.paidmutual.com/

Could be template so dont get all crazy lol.
:)

looks like a template to me...

just bought 10 targeted gonna give them a test and ill post results,

sorry i meant 10=10k

From my own personal experience it does not work as you will get visitors but not the ones you want.

Just my 0.02 cents

Been there, done that, won't again. It's not traffic you want, it's clients that want your services you want. I'm not saying out of 10,000 people 1 won't buy your product but it's not really targeted at your product or service.. It's just traffic

Was thinking about it, but glad the people above me chimed in. Thx.

so basically i could have just bought the cheaper traffic and get the same results lol

Originally posted by HomeWebWork
so basically i could have just bought the cheaper traffic and get the same results lol

sounds like it :)

Originally posted by HomeWebWork
so basically i could have just bought the cheaper traffic and get the same results lol


The only good I have seen come out of this would be increasing your Alexa rating and making you read your web stats daily as well.

Their are other ways to get traffic that are free but you will have to put a lot of work into it.

I would think about www.google.com/adwords before I would do this.

But even your alexa rating don't mean anything to anyone except you. Lets say you sell roller blade wheels. Your main goal is to sell a billion roller blade wheels and even get the largest roller blade wheel maker to advertise on your web site.

If your selling wheels on your site in turn the advertising might sell more wheels for the maker too.

So now you go to traffic-R-us.com and pay to have 10,000 people come see your site. You watch your alexa ratings of from 1,800,000 to 400,000 !

Your competitor "Webeat-his-priceonwheels.com" ranks 900,000 in alexa so you assume you are a busier and better website based on a ranking of 400,000 on alexa.

You talk the wheel maker into paying to be on your site and since your alexa ranking increased you expect to sell more wheels.

Well you know what? You notice your sales don't increase much.

The traffic you are getting is not targeted to the product/service you are trying to sell. Thats why we don't recommend traffic boosting sites to our clients enless it's very targeted clients. It's great when they see 1000 people this month viewed thier website but the bottom line is sales or calls.

Would you rather have 50 phone calls a month that are targeted clients or would you rather have 1000 calls a month where 999 say, opps not what i was looking for?

Doesn't targetedvisitors.info offer category targeting? Seems like if you get 10,000 people who were looking for widgets, some of them would end up buying the widgets from you. At least they may bookmark you to come back when they need widgets.

Or is that not how it works?

If they send actual targeted clientel then yes, that is what you want.

Most of the clients we know who have tried that type of service did get traffic but didn't notice any increase of sales/calls.

If you can get a service which would acutally be able to send targeted "interested" clientel that would be idea.

The best example is this website as targeted clientel. Any advertiser knows that the eyes balls reading this very post most likely would be interested in web related services.

I won 10,000 targeted visitors from this website. I didnt recieve a single new signup or sale.

Even if the ad campaign is targeted to a specific industry, you still probably won't get much luck. The hits you get come from pop ups/unders and expired domains - not the best ways to get new visitors to want to buy from you.


The only thing I've seen sites like this used successfully for is to boost stats so the site looks better when reselling (an extra $40 for 10K visitors could boost your selling price up a couple hundred). But then this is like cheating, you don't maintain that type of traffic...

I seem to recall a previous thread talking about that design being a template, so I don't think either one ripped the other. As for buying traffic in general... Honestly, after a long time spent researching the whole "purchased traffic" thing, I've found it to be a poor investment, and rarely seen anybody gain much from it except the people selling it. ;) Furthermore, as has already been mentioned from one end of the web to another - it's questionable as to whether they always send real traffic, and not just bots/scripts/proxies some of the time.

I'm not referring to just the company mentioned in this thread, but all of these type services.

I think Adwords from Google would be better!

I agree with you Gen-T and google's adwords is the best option..

Read This: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=298473

My experiences....

Ordered 10K from Dan months ago, seems that traffic worked. ~50% ROI.

Figured out where visitors come from (by IP owner) and boughjt from them 50K - zero, 100% loss.

Also as examples:

Visits duration - 0s-30s 15605 93.8 %
http://69.20.61.36/trafficserver.htm 15053 15055

So, ALL visitors are... sh%t for me.

If someone can guarantee 50% ROI on visitors, drop me a note, gonna to spend a lot :)

A couple things to consider when doing a targetted traffic campaign.

1. Your landing page is very important, and this is where you sell your product. Make this page very attractive, and grab the attention of the customers here.

2. Most people don't purchase on the first visit. It takes 3-7 visits for an average sale on the net.

3. People will bookmark you if they find you interesting, and visit later, so it may not register through a traffic campaign visit.

4. People like to buy from busier sites. It seems more trustworthy. If people use alexa as one of their critera in determining a busy site, then your traffic is helping.

5. Traffic conversions are low, but cheap enough to be worked into most advertising budgets.

It really depends on your goals as to weather or not this type of traffic is right for your site. It is definatly not for everyone. I don't think that a forum about diablo 2 would bennefit from this type of traffic, but a site that sells DVD's will.

To be honest, when we talk, I have measured performance.

0.16% clicks out of 1,839 views compared to 3% to 9% from other sites. If I get ~0.3/click = 0.48/cpm, I pay $1.8cpm. Gain/loss = -$1.32/cpm

Just my $0.02 here, but I think what you're offering/selling has a lot to do with how well these type of campaigns go too.

This is just based on personal experience, but services (like hosting) tend to convert very poorly with campaigns like this. I'm not sure why that is, but it's what I've found.

On the flip side, tangible products can see some great R.O.I. from a targeted traffic campaign purchased from a reputable seller.

Case in point, several months ago we released a software title and used targeted traffic as part of our product launch campaign. The tracking of results showed that over 20% of the purchased traffic downloaded our demo.

We have no way of knowing exactly how many of those visitors who downloaded the demo converted to registered users, however we have seen an overall 17% conversion rate to registered users against all demo downloads to date, so must assume at-least some of that traffic converted into sales.

One thing I have learned over time is to completely avoid pop-ups/unders. Unless you're an adult entertainment site your ad on a pop-up/under is more likely to damage your company brand by upsetting surfers than to lead into sales.

Redirected traffic from expired domains actually does fairly well when properly targeted. People know that businesses close, it's a fact of life. So, someone looking for a widget from Mike's Widgets who gets redirected because Mike went under is still likely to browse your selection of widgets. Bottom line, the customer doesn't care about Mike, they just want a quality widget at a fair price. But, if you're not selling widgets you're going to upset that surfer, so that's why I say find a reputable traffic seller if you're going to purchase traffic. You'll pay more but it's worth it in the end.

As someone stated already, with purchased traffic your landing page is vital. Since you're going to be getting traffic which is expecting something other than your site you need to grab their attention fast or they'll be gone.

That's my opinions on the topic, they may not display properly in all browsers,
Scott

Mama always said bought traffic was like a box a chocolates, never know what you're gonna get.

ScottBannon: interesting point.

BTW, that was US + webmasters targeted traffic, 50,000 visitors, just on end of campaign implemented tracking system.