Should You Buy Website Traffic

Buy 100,000 premium targeted visitors for the very low price of just $39.95 and increase site profits! Now you would think this sounds great after all it’s at a bargain price, but the sad truth is that the majority of the sites offering this service are complete scams.

Yes, of course they’ll deliver the targeted hits you’ve purchased, but the reality is that the actual traffic either doesn’t exist at all or it’s generated by software to create an illusion of unique visitors that comes from sources like auto surf sites. The truth is that it is near impossible to monitor & evaluate this bargain traffic to know if it’s real or not, and the fact is you have no way of knowing whether it’s targeted or just garbage hits.

What is the guarantee for putting your trust into these sites offering traffic that will supposedly bring you sales? I would have to say in my opinion 99.9% do not have any guarantee whatsoever that their traffic will result in more sales.

Let’s think about this for a moment; say you have at your disposal my hypothetical offer above offering 100,000 premium visitors at the bargain price of just $39.95 would you actually be willing to sell your traffic off? Of course not if you actually have any sense at all because say you have just one product for sale on your site and you received a 1% sale ratio that would equal 1000 sales times lets say $19.95 for a grand total of $19,950.

Bottom line if it sounds too good to be true then more than likely it’s not. So do yourself a favor - If you’re thinking of purchasing traffic from one of these services, keep your money to invest in more reliable and proven options such as Google Ads.

February 29, 2008 | posted in Make Money Online, The Net

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58 Responses to “Should You Buy Website Traffic”

Chris on February 29th, 2008

You know I received one such “offer” for thousands of traffic hits for $29.99 a few days ago and I immediately thought they were full of it. I almost got suckered into doing it though. Now I’m glad I didn’t.
Big Oak SEO Company on February 29th, 2008

Yes, I’ve seen these types of ads on Ebay, of all places. I admit I was intrigued, but the sage advice you give here also came to me. If it is too good to be true…
Music Dictionary on March 1st, 2008

That is great advise. Thank you for the advance warning.
Jeena on March 1st, 2008

Too good to be true.
HiFi Guy on March 1st, 2008

Buying traffic is crap, why ?

Because you will have people to your site for no reason, they will close the browser tab immediately. Moreover these people will eat your bandwidth.

So i see no point in buying traffic even it’s cheap.
Life is Colourful on March 1st, 2008

I second these thoughts. There is no point in buying the traffic. It’s nothing but losing money in this hopeless tactics by those companies. There is no questions of people closing the browser immediately, because there would be no real people behind the browser
PS3 on March 2nd, 2008

The problem with paying for traffic and links is that you will always have to repeat the process. Far better to write content that people actually like so that they will return and natural link building will evolve.

A large percentage of paid traffic is bot or proxy, or at best pop up/pop under. Time on site will be zero and no benefit to SERPS or PR.

Save your money!
Ian on March 2nd, 2008

I just don’t see the point in buying traffic. Waste of money, and you’re just fooling yourself if you think its meaningful. Better off to concentrate on producing decent content and promoting it so that people notice it and keep coming back because they want to.
Life is Colourful on March 2nd, 2008

I think most of the commentators agree to the point discussed in the post. I doubt if anyone would talk in favor of buying traffic.
nithin on March 2nd, 2008

Generally I dont prefer buying traffic for my site. Coz every visitor who comes to your blog should be so targeted that atleast he has to find something useful in your blog or site, so that he will either bookmark or subscirbe your blog. If you are getting untargeted traffic, then its of no use as many will even stop the page before loading. Hence I really dont like to buy traffic as mostly its untargeted and also I would prefer to use that on other types of advertising.
Fare soldi on March 2nd, 2008

Buying traffic to me is just a temporary solution.
It will work in the short term.

I would do just some good contests instead of buying traffic, I will gain links and new readers!

Fare soldi
Furniture Store on March 3rd, 2008

You know what they say: if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!
Patrick Burt on March 3rd, 2008

And what if you had CPM ads that paid $4+? Could you return a profit? You might have to have a higher rate to compensate for ad blockers.
offensive t shirts on March 3rd, 2008

I have wasted my fair share of money with some of these so called seo companies, however, I learned my lesson pretty quickly. I have found that even when you buy a link with a page rank of 6, and run it thru a website that tells you the page rank of the link, it will often come back as a pr 1 or 2. It would be interesting to see a blog post listing the honest seo companies if there are any. Thanks
chuck norris jokes on March 3rd, 2008

The thing is, there are many people who don’t know much about how it all works. They don’t know thats’ a fake traffic or that will put their AdSense into smartpricing. And those are exactly the people scam guys are targeting.
Futon-Matt on March 3rd, 2008

I agree completely with your post, buying site hits is (usually) crap. If you do it, don’t expect much return.
New Homes Section on March 3rd, 2008

We have tried this when we first started out. We did get the traffic we needed to convince some clients in the beginning. But other than that it didn’t really do anything.
John on March 4th, 2008

Very good post to warn newbies about the lack of results from buying traffic, complete waste of time in most cases.
New Homes Section on March 4th, 2008

Also if it is okay with you I have changed my name. I am also sending over a video I found on the net.
seo on March 4th, 2008

This is one way to get your Adsense banned.
pinay scandal on March 4th, 2008

Pageviews are not a reliable metric. I think it’s better to buy organic search traffic, because it converts more.
pelarge on March 4th, 2008

Buy traffic = Pay for someone to eat your bandwidth, that’s it.
360 Degrees on March 4th, 2008

Now that is the proper perspective: “because say you have just one product for sale on your site and you received a 1% sale ratio that would equal 1000 sales times lets say $19.95 for a grand total of $19,950. ” Yup-and that’s just the return you get, too.
Gary Ooi on March 5th, 2008

Thanks for sharing that. I personally never tried buying traffic to my blog. I used to surf and earn free points and used that points to get free traffic. So whether they are using a software to generate it or something else, I didn’t lose anything. But I’ll extra careful about that!
Patrick Burt on March 5th, 2008

Buying traffic doesn’t get your adsense banned…
Paul on March 6th, 2008

If you are thinking about changing up the blog, do you have an idea of what or where you are taking it?
Jeena on March 7th, 2008

Just use a decent stat counter and you will be fine. Randomly check some ip’s and referrers..
Tom Roompot on March 7th, 2008

Thanks for the article, I got an offer that seemed so good that it got suspicious and what do you know, it turns out it was a scam!
You saved me 50$
PS3 on March 7th, 2008

Are you sure about that Patrick? Surely Google doesn’t take kindly to the possibility that you have effectively paid to increase clicks?
Jakob Dupont Knudsen on March 9th, 2008

I have to agree! And there are a lot of people who want to sell traffic. Specially over at Digital Point. However, real visitors or not, it is still good for your alexa ranking, no?
Toronto Dedicated Se on March 10th, 2008

This is a great advice.I have to agree with you.I know a lot of people who is going to sell traffic.
shuron on March 12th, 2008

That’s why I would never by some link form such unknown blogs or services.
Harrry on March 12th, 2008

I would personally never buy traffic because it pointless , none of the brought traffic will return only making you think your website is doing well
david carter on March 13th, 2008

I found this site that said that they sell their traffic for cheap because they buy old domains that poeple don’t renew. These sites are still getting traffic! So they redirect this traffic to your site for cheap. They only refer the related sites to you.

I would like to hear what you think about that? Does that sound worth while. I know they could just be lieing to me about that whole story, but it sounds good to me. Maybe its just another too good to be true things. idk

thnx, David Makes Cents
Warhammer Online on March 13th, 2008

I don’t believe in the power of traffic buying, there isn’t just enough guarantee of the quality of the traffic.
Free-hdtvs on March 14th, 2008

I agree, definately not worth it. I would rather have people visiting my website because they want to and their interested in what’s going on rather than a computer just hitting it everyday with no actual progression.
TT LoanShark on March 14th, 2008

Too much cr*ppy traffic from worthless sources out there; what you want is targetted traffic i.e. potential customers.
Franca Richard on March 16th, 2008

It’s not good buying traffic in my opinion. My first comment here, really good blog, both gossip and tech.
Robert on March 18th, 2008

I think your argument holds water. Why would someone sell you “premium” traffic for forty bucks, when they could get 200 more in sales themselves?

Like my grandpa use to say: “If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys”
Keylogger Hater on March 24th, 2008

So there is one conclusion - don’t buy suspicious traffic.
Invest more money to the Google AdWords.
Personally i prefer to buy strong links )
NiraliSherni on March 29th, 2008

Good post and good warning!
Furniture Store on March 29th, 2008

Hi Jason, I’m just trying to see if my comments are going thru
Genri on March 30th, 2008

I see no sense to buy traffic from this service, for this small amount is not really poimet traffic in a number ve, then you begin to understand that once you cheat.
Thank you for your article, I think many will read and understand that they can not trust.
Dave on March 31st, 2008

I don’t believe in the power of traffic buying, there isn’t just enough guarantee of the quality of the traffic.
Rice Blogger on April 1st, 2008

real traffic would cost higher…and there is no point buying computer generated traffic…..just start your counter 100,001.
PS3 on April 3rd, 2008

With reference to the comment about improved Alexa rankings, can someone explain exactly what benefit Alexa has these days?
Rapid Back Pain Relief on April 6th, 2008

I bought traffic like 2-3 years ago. I think I paid like $100 and they promise like 10,000 hits to my site, which they did but with no sales at all. I would not recommend buying traffic. Just write articles and buy adwords.
Cesar on April 9th, 2008

I did have ever bought traffic like those traffic but the most of them are craps. I will now never buy again because you can get many great traffics for free if you do some work for it.
Garmin on April 13th, 2008

Thanks for post
I used to wasted money for this
Teenage Love on April 15th, 2008

The sad part is that even if these offers provide the hits, they are from paid to surf like schemes in which surfers just visit a page for a mere seconds to earn money. They are just scams and untargeted. You will not make even 1 sell with 100000000 hits. Better use the money in ppc like adwords which gives laser targeted traffic which is more likely to be converted into sales. Thanks.
Mtpa on April 18th, 2008

Nothing on earth is given without labour! so it’s just fake that buying 100,000 premium targeted visitors for the very low price of just $39.95 will increase site profits.
John Walters on May 3rd, 2008

At the beginning of my internet career I cam across one of these deals. I decided I may as well risk it as even 2 converted visitors would land me in profit. WIth my site being such a small niche the targetting traffic took a long time to come and I got bored of counting visitors so never checked again after the first few days. All I can say is that there is no way that these deals work. I didn’t get a single converted visitor.

The traffic created is created by bots or the autosurf programs. People spend no longer than 20 seconds on your site and are not interested in it as they are simply visiting to receive some other incentive. Like you say, if they could get that many targetted visitors for that amount of money they would use it themselves.

I’m pretty sure that these people are making money though, bloody scammers..

John
PS3 on May 3rd, 2008

It was interesting reading a recently article on conversions.

Someone like Office Depot can boast a 20% conversion rate because a lot of customers will have heard of them and used them before.

That drops to 2% if people randomly visit using less popular keyphrases.

Buying irrelevant traffic is just a waste of time.
pelarge on May 3rd, 2008

yeah sometime I just wonder why there are still so many webmasters like to spend their money on this? Why don’t they just optimize their site or try adwords instead of buying such crap traffic…
Gambling Man on May 6th, 2008

Yeah I would be a little weary of paying for traffic.
Patrick Burt on May 6th, 2008

@pelarge.

Sometimes it takes more than SEO to build up decent traffic….
Reverse Mergers on May 7th, 2008

Yeah there is really no point in buying traffic. It’s all bot traffic, pop-unders, or some other shady method so it’s a total waste of money. I would stick to SEO, PPC, and everything else that works for generating real qualified visitors.
DazzleCat Website Design on May 12th, 2008

Bottom line if it sounds too good to be true then more than likely it’s not.
^^

thats a great summary, i dont personanlly believe these things