To buy or not to buy, that is the question?
So I have been looking at some posts about buying traffic. I am still very new, but I have several pages that are ranked on pages 1-4 and I would like to get at least a little bit of traffic.
I know it takes awhile to gain the trust of my website and everything, but considering my rankings in google I figured maybe I could get a little bit of traffic. I am not expecting a butt load of traffic, but a little would be nice.
I have seen posts where they say it is not worth buying traffic because a lot of them are bogus and the others don't stay or return so it does you no good.
Have you tried buying traffic? Did it help in anyway? What is your advice in getting traffic besides good content?
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
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On your compare prices page, you have no images. I think you should put images of the products on that page as well as the others. Pictures are a lot easier to understand than oral descriptions. Even though visitors may have seen the images on the other pages I think you should put them there also.
The sad reality is that far too many people who pay for some type advertising lose money. A good rule of thumb is that anything beyond the first 6 or 7 spots on page 1 and no one will know you even exist.
I've used free Craigslist ads before. You have to run a lot of them for minimal traffic. Craigslist severely restricts how many you can run.
I have bought two sources of traffic.
You can buy views from StumbleUpon. The thing I like about them is folks go to that website to have webpages put in front of them within their set interests. So, the audience is already in a curious mood. You can shape your audience by some demographics, location and by interests. So, for instance, I have a golf website and I can restrict my viewers to men between 35 - 55 that live in the US and who like golf.
They guarantee unique visitors. And a visit only counts if it lasts more than 5 seconds. I have felt the stickiness has been pretty good with my "campaign" averaging over 30 seconds per viewer. The volume did boost my rankings some and I did not buy large volume
The second source is traffmagic. The volume package is significantly cheaper than StunpleUpon. You can define location and interest but not demographics. They guarantee unique visitors. And a visit only counts if it lasts more than 20 seconds. I have not seen as positive an impact in terms of ranking but their entry price is cheap.
I think either one is worth a shot.
Thank you. I was just curious if it was really worth it or not because I know Kyle says quite often in his posts not to. Have you seen any conversions from that traffic?
Ah, the true question. Nope. Both of my current sites are about golf. We are in the off season for most of the US (and post holiday gift giving) so I am just trying to build out the sites and rankings for the true buying season for golf. In terms of consumer lifecycle I don't believe there are a ton of golf buyers right now in early Feb. Slight rationalization, but also some real truth.
What I would suggest is you try it but at low volume and see if it works especially given that kitchen gadgets aren't seasonally disadvantaged in Feb.
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In answer to your question, here is part of a comment that I posted earlier tonight on another member's (Jevans3500) blog about this subject.
"there is power in paid advertising if you combine it with your organic efforts in a responsible and non-spammy way. That is, don't invest tons of money buying every keyword and keyword combo you can think of. That's the quickest way to get penalized. It's called "trying too hard".
However, if you spend a few bucks (5 or 10 dollars) per month for a few choice keywords, it will go far working in tandem with your organic efforts. At least, it seems to have worked well for me.
I'm no expert really; but lately, I've begun to see some very positive results.
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Did you use Bing or Google or some other?
I used Google adwords. But I registered with Bing/Yahoo, too.
Did I use them for what? To be indexed? I have google webmaster and Bing.
I have google adsense