Avoiding Shady Forms of Traffic

[TheJason]

A lot of traffic is rather dishonest. For instance, if someone is offering 10,000 visitors for 5 dollars, then I'd be skeptical. However, that seems stereotypical of companies that deliver pop-under and redirected traffic. Nonetheless, unlike what you'd think using logic, a lot of people seem to fall for these websites - simply because the price is so cheap and quality pay-per-click sites like AdWords are so high. For instance, why would someone want to pay 1 dollar a click for the web hosting niche (and that's probably on the cheap end), when they can get the same visitors for less than 0.01 USD per head? Anyway, though, I think many are wising up to these companies.

 

[NickJ]

You should always be leery of sites that over-promise in a small window of time. If you want genuine traffic to your blog or website - you'll have to go out and hunt it down yourself. Advertising on and offline, are just a few of the ways to get it done.

 

[kgord]

Many of the commercial traffic sites offer traffic, but they are generally not people who are looking for what you have to offer. For instance, if you have a site that caters to US residents with a commercial traffic exchange you might get traffic from overseas that don't have a legitimate interest in your site. I agree with the above poster. Real organic traffic from people who have been searching for a site like yours is the best way to get traffic. Use pertinent keywords to get proper traffic.