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Hello, wish you all a prosperous 2007.
I ever bought traffics from several web promotion companies but the result was very bad.
For example I ordered 10,000 traffics from << bulk traffic reseller >> in order to promote my website << url snipped >> They were boasting all the traffics were really targeted and will send 10,000 traffics to me within a month. But unfortunately it tooked more than 45 days for me to only receive 2,200 traffics and their campaign finished. It seemed their traffics were from a same frame and just some fake hits. Even no any vistors browse the second page of my website. I will never buy traffics again.

Hope to share your thoughts with you all, thanks.

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The problem described by is a classic: vendors promising big bulk numbers but delivering low-value or non-human hits. is right that this is common, and and correctly point toward thinking in terms of ROI rather than raw visitor counts. Before committing money, treat any bulk-traffic offer like a product you must validate with measurable acceptance criteria.

Practical vetting steps to use before and during a trial:

  • Require a small paid test (a few hundred clicks) with a unique UTM or campaign token so you can isolate the traffic in your analytics.
  • Insist on raw delivery data (timestamps, IPs, user agents, referrers) or a firing verification pixel and check it against server logs.
  • Define KPIs up front: pages/session, avg session duration, bounce rate, conversion rate and % new users. Stop the test if those metrics fall well below baseline expectations.
  • Ask for third-party verification or an SLA/refund clause for invalid traffic.

Quick checks that flag likely fake traffic: identical or very limited IP ranges, identical user-agent strings, missing referrer headers, extremely short sessions or 100% single-page views, and perfectly regular arrival intervals. Use server logs to spot top IPs quickly:

awk '{print $1}' access.log | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n 20

Use analytics and platform tools to reduce risk: enable bot filtering in Google Analytics and learn what bot patterns look like (). Read up on bot behaviour to interpret sudden spikes (Cloudflare: What are bots?). If a vendor refuses basic transparency or won’t allow a short test, don’t buy the large package.

Finally, translate your business economics into a max acceptable cost per acquisition (CPA) and only fund channels that can be measured against that CPA. Small, instrumented experiments with clear stop rules beat bulk promises every time.

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Unfortunately you learned this the hard way ... but that's basically the gist of it with so-called "bulk traffic reseller" companies.

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Hello, wish you all a prosperous 2007.
I ever bought traffics from several web promotion companies but the result was very bad.
For example I ordered 10,000 traffics from << bulk traffic reseller >> in order to promote my website << url snipped >> They were boasting all the traffics were really targeted and will send 10,000 traffics to me within a month. But unfortunately it tooked more than 45 days for me to only receive 2,200 traffics and their campaign finished. It seemed their traffics were from a same frame and just some fake hits. Even no any vistors browse the second page of my website. I will never buy traffics again.

Hope to share your thoughts with you all, thanks.

I have never trusted services that promise X thousands of visitors to a website. Chances are, it would be untargeted traffic anyhow. Besides paying for a few links in high-PR directories, paying for Google or Yahoo search advertising is another way to go. Even then, it would be hard to predict how many hits you would get. (You could set up a limit, but the very first time you set up the account, you would really have no idea how much traffic would be sent your way.).

The other factor to keep in mind is how much income you expect to earn from visitors. If you are paying $0.05 for each visitor, but only expect to earn, say, $0.03 from each visitor, the advertising wouldn't be cost-effective, so there would be no point doing it. In such a case, it would be better to stick to free advertising approaches.

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They were boasting all the traffics were really targeted and will send 10,000 traffics to me within a month.

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I've always been a big fan of CPC advertising. For example, I used to use a standard ad network for my online game and pay $0.05 to $0.10 per click. Donations / purchase of VIP materials in game went for anywhere from $5 to $1000 - if someone donates $1000, that's 20000 clicks paid for. The trick is to make it economical and maximise your earnings. If you have a good, profitable site, marketing can come later.

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