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We have recently seen many ads related to selling quality & targetted traffic to any website. They offer packages like 100,000 visits in approx 30$.

Has anyone tried any? Are they genuine? How is the traffic quality?

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Expert addendum with a short, practical vetting workflow and lightweight instrumentation to tell real, valuable visits from synthetic or low‑quality bulk traffic. Several members — , , , , , and — raised the main risks; the checklist below gives concrete steps to test a vendor before any meaningful spend.

Start with a micro test and an instrumented landing page: run a very small campaign (a few hundred–few thousand clicks) and tag every vendor link with a unique token. The key comparison is “page requests” vs “browser-executed events.” Require a tiny JavaScript-only beacon on the landing page (so non-JS bots won’t trigger it), and compare beacon hits to raw HTTP hits in server logs. Also capture IP addresses, user agents and reverse-DNS/ASN info from logs to detect datacenter clusters or proxy farms. Track engagement and outcome metrics for the tokened traffic: percent of sessions that fired the JS beacon, median session duration, pages per session, conversion rate for the desired action (signup, purchase, etc.), and returning-visitor rate. If most visits never execute JS, have near-zero session time, come from a few IP ranges, or show identical user-agents, treat the traffic as low value.

A minimal JS beacon to log “real browser” hits:

<!-- landing page: ping server only when JS runs -->
<script>
(function(){
  var img = new Image();
  img.src = '/track-ping?v=VENDOR_A&tok=TEST123&w='+screen.width+'&h='+screen.height+'&t='+Date.now();
})();
</script>

Log /track-ping calls server‑side and compare counts to page requests and analytics hits.

Quick vendor checklist: demand recent IP lists or sample logs; insist on a refund policy tied to measured conversions; run a short live test before scaling; be ready to block offending ranges; and measure ROI (not just raw visits). This approach addresses ’s bot concerns while giving a structured way to vet vendors like described. If the instrumented test shows real engagement and conversions, scaling is defensible; otherwise treat bulk packages as vanity metrics.

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Member Avatar for Kelly Burby

Well, I would say there isn't any use of purchased traffic it's just useless I would say if you want to waste your $ better would be to use Google Adwords to drive traffice you could get some quality traffic out of it but heading over to other's is just a waste of time nothing else.

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Member Avatar for whlookup

We also did a research and found that its a waste of money to purchase traffic as everyone who have done it says that the quality of traffic is very low

Member Avatar for papercup

I have not yet used. And my senior personnel too don't prefer to purchase traffic for website. They say, buying and sowing gives short term benefits. Organically creating traffic will last long so i also follow organic seo.

Member Avatar for Linda Schrier

Anyone offering lots of traffic for a low amount of money is a waste of money. I know because I did it. Pay per click solo ads are working for me. You have to be careful about the vendor you use. Some of them fake themselves with phoney advertising, having a lot of people give false testimonials, saying they're great when they are not. You must research them.

Member Avatar for Glenn Rodgers

Purchasing traffic for your website is totally waste of money and time you can hire a professional SEO expert instead of this.

Member Avatar for Linda Schrier

I am going to try SEO expert too. I am always interested in new ways to get traffic to my website. Thank you!

Member Avatar for Kelly Burby

Well @Linda you can try getting traffic from Social Media, forums,Q/A sites etc... other than search engines they do sometimes offers quality traffic.

Member Avatar for Linda Schrier

Hi Kelly, Thank you for the comments on social media. I'm going to take your advise. This is an area I'm illerate in. I will research it and share with everyone what I learn. You have a terrific day!

Member Avatar for Kelly Burby

No worries at all @Linda, just let us know when you need any kind of help ! We are here to help you out ! You to have a terrific day !

Member Avatar for Linda Schrier

Thank you Kelly for your kindness and I will ask for help from the community. One problem I have is I don't even know how to do links. I have someone coming over this week to show me how to do this and I will share with you how it goes. He's been doing some work for me however he moves so quickly, I can't catch up to what he's doing. When he comes this time I'm going to slow him down so I can do the work on the links I need to do. I am so grateful to have each and everyone of you in my life!

commented: No problem at all I will keep a watch over your post ! +3
Member Avatar for OtisGross

Seeing the reviews online, its more of negative than positive, Some say after buying traffic, they emmediately felt the traffic roll in but there are a lot more issues like account activation and more technical stuff. Most people and businesses are reviewing about the same issue, but talking about high targeted and high valuable traffic.

Member Avatar for Linda Schrier

What I am looking for is high valuable traffic. The kind of traffic I build relationships on. I'd like to get to know my traffic and I want to trust my traffic. The only way I know how to do this is through my blog. I'm on a blog trip right now. I like getting comments and responding to those comments.

Member Avatar for PixelatedKarma

Just to weigh in quick, the only real paid traffic is through ppc campaigns. Other promises for x amount of traffic for y amount of money is a scam. There are several applications available through black hat websites which will spoof traffic to any site, the more sophisticated applications can even trick referral sites (ie Google) into believing that a keyword has triggered multiple visits to a website. If your goal is to make your stats look presentable for Adwords or other such programs then these programs could in theory help you if you didn't get caught, God help you if Google catches you though - welcome to SEO purgatory.

Other then that you need to realize that these services aren't offering real views from real people so if your website is focused on selling a product or service it absolutely will not help you.

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