Cheapest Untargeted Traffic Provider?

[MJ_Taylor]

Hi All,

I'm the 'marketing guy' for a niche libertarian web magazine, and so far buying targeted traffic off Google, and whatnot, has just been expensive and hasn't really resulted in a huge turnover in repeat visitors. (Some, but well below 1% it seems.) Google also doesn't seem to be able to deliver very high volumes of visitors to our market anyway (Just before the election we had a $700 per day budget with Google and I'm not sure they ever broke $40 a day in clicks).

So, I'm thinking that given we aren't going to have a high repeat visitor conversion rate anyway, why not just buy the cheapest untargeted traffic available? In that light anyone know anything about the below?

http://www.visitorscheap.com/
$0.36 CPM for "quality website traffic" <= no definition of how they get it

http://www.adbuytraffic.com/reseller.html
$1.00/CPM for Untargeted Redirects

Are there any firms the 'gurus' would recommend?

Thanks for your help,

[ozgression]

Honestly, i wouldnt bother buying this sort of traffic. I would much rather try alternate PPC's for traffic. I have used two traffic providers before - http://www.targetedvisitors.info and www.endlessvisitors.com . Both delivered the traffic, but these are pop-ups, so results will not be as good as PPC's.

You mentioned that you have used Google Adwords before, but what about trying others like Overture, Search123, FindWhat etc..?

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[Emancipator]

well depending on how they do it that first one could make you some serious cash. I may check em out just to see whether its legit or a scam. Some logs and $50.00 and we will know pretty fast :)

[chrispian]

I have been very dissappointed with buying traffic. I've tried several places and they all sucked. No one who came to the site stayed more than 15 seconds. Even random visitors from google stay longer and convert better. I almost suspected an automatic traffic scheme bcause the timing of the traffic was so close. It felt "wrong". I'm totally turned off to the idea.

[geesh]

Our service at EndlessVisitors provides traffic via full-screen pop-under windows. Also, we provide ppc campaigns, banner cpm campaigns, and multi-pop (no restriction) campaigns.

[MJ_Taylor]

Anybody else found any decent untargeted traffic?

[EndlessVisitor is $1.75 CPM untargeted.]

[OnlineGuide]

Check out needtrafficnow.com (http://www.needtrafficnow.com) and websitehits.com (http://www.websitehit.com). They've done pretty good for me.

[Chris Choi]

I would stay as far away from UNtargeted traffic as I can.

Since you've tried PPCs, why not try joint ventures?

[paulfitz]

I'm sorry to say, but my results were less than amazing. I only bought 5000 visitors for a forum site I was running, but didn't get a single signup and as far as I could tell, users did not stay long at all.

When I ran some CPM ads on a website of a similar nature I did get a few signups.

[AndyH]

Didn't work for me ... go all the visitors I bought (well, page views anyhow) but once the campaign was over everything dropped back to exactly how they were.

[davesplace1]

well depending on how they do it that first one could make you some serious cash. I may check em out just to see whether its legit or a scam. Some logs and $50.00 and we will know pretty fast :)
Let us know how the traffic worked out for your sites. Thanks, Dave

[MJ_Taylor]

Let us know how the traffic worked out for your sites. Thanks, Dave

In Dec. I spent $6 for 10,000 hits with;

http://www.visitorscheap.com/

I wouldn't recomend using them for these two reasons

- their default deliver is over 60 days. After requesting they deliver the traffic over 5 days so I could evaluate any effects on our site revenue they still left it at 60 days. The 150 to 200 hits a day they deliver isn't enough to determine anything.
- after log analysis it looks like the traffic is bot/proxy generated. Of the few IP addresses that do go beyond the main page set, so far 100% have hit the same exact 'next' page and most have hit this next page within 3 seconds of loading the entry page set.


If anyone else has experience with untargeted traffic firms, please add your comments to this thread.

Thanks,

[Xander]

I find it difficult to believe that you'll ever find a place that will be able to provide targetted traffic that is open to visiting a site for a low price. Surely the money is better spent on advertising, unless the site is of a very general/easy concept its most likely to not work.

[MJ_Taylor]

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[MJ_Taylor]

I find it difficult to believe that you'll ever find a place that will be able to provide targetted traffic that is open to visiting a site for a low price. Surely the money is better spent on advertising, unless the site is of a very general/easy concept its most likely to not work.

I'm not looking for targeted traffic, as you are right targeted traffic isn't cheap as I stated in the original post.

And buying untargeted traffic is advertising. . . Anything that brings you visitors/customers would be considered advertising, right? Or what channels/methods are you referring to by advertising?

[Xander]

What I was trying to say is that I wasn't sure how effective buying traffic (popunders and the like) would be, but I do forget sometimes that the majority of the internet users are different to the ones found on webmaster sites, and I don't mix see their reactions often enough :)

With regards to advertising, you are right, I was meaning more convential - buying text ads/placements on sites that would give you the highest possiblity of traffic.