Buying Traffic To Your Website
I recently tested 3 web traffic companies to see if I can increase the traffic to my websites using them. My past experience made me to be extremly cautious and I tried some small campaigns first. You can see the results below but first a few words about Buying Traffic:
If you have a website, you would probably want to have many people visiting it. But getting web traffic or visitors to your website can often be difficult for beginners. One way to obtain web traffic is buying it but this is easier said than done due to the massive amout of criminal energy out there on the web.
Before buying web traffic, you should make sure that the web traffic company you plan on using is legitimate. The worst of web traffic companies use scripts to automatically generate traffic. That means that only one computer visits your website automatically a specified number of times and their software works by bringing huge numbers of “virtual” visitors to your website.. these visitors do not even exist.
Other illegitimate web traffic companies use “Blog Farms” and the many blogs might be located on different servers so you get traffic but it is still pretty much worthless.
To make sure that the web traffic company is legitimate and to protect you from frauds is to contact the company. Find out what methods they use to bring traffic to your website. If they do not supply you with the information you need, simply avoid buying from them. You can also ask people you know who has good web traffic about the company they bought traffic from.
Another way to find out if the company is legitimate and do not use automatic generation script is to use the cPanel if your website hosting has one you can use it to find out the visitors IP address. The IP address should be mostly different from one another, if the visitors IP address are mostly the same, the company is using automatic generation scripts.
Remember: You only get what you want if you get targeted traffic. A script visiting your website is neither targeted nor will it be interested in your website content or even buy from your website. And even if the web traffic company sends you real people.. these poeople might not be targeted and therefore click away from your site and never come back. Even worse.. your reputation might be hurt for good!
My results:
For each of the following companies I ordered a small campaign to get 2500 or 5000 visitors per month. I will just give you my results without further comments.
MySiteSubmit
- http://www.mysitesubmit.com
- Provides a membership area where you can view your stats
- MySiteSubmit’s stats showed traffic delivered to my site
- NEITHER Google Analytics NOR my other stats scripts on my site confirmed the traffic
- MySiteSubmit DOES NOT WORK
HandyTraffic
- http://www.handytraffic.com
- Provides a membership area where you can view your stats
- HandyTraffic’s stats showed traffic delivered to my site
- Google Analytics AND my other stats scripts on my site confirmed the traffic
- HandyTraffic DOES WORK and delivered some targeted traffic but also increased the spam comments on my sites (non-targeted traffic)
Revisitors
- http://revisitors.com
- Provides a membership area where you can view your stats
- Revisitors’s stats showed traffic delivered to my site
- Google Analytics AND my other stats scripts on my site confirmed the traffic
- Revisitors DOES WORK (can’t say anything about targeted/non-targeted traffic because that site is not a blog and does not let people comment)
It would be great if you could leave your comments or recommendations on this post for all of us.
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Peter
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