"Buying Traffic” is a fairly new term to me. In fact it wasn't until I came across the Awio Web services (thanks Jackofallblogs!) that got me thinking. How do they do it? How does one buy traffic?

After much research *cough* I stumbled across this. When a website owner loses interest in their site and decides not to renew their domain name, it becomes available to the public again. We buy these domains which still receive traffic from search engines, links and marketing done by the previous owner, and direct this traffic to you. Ah ha. These guys are those pricks that hijack domain names and fill them with useless information. Kind of like when you misspell google. Bastards.

Anyhow back to buying traffic, to me it seems like it can't fail. Lets look at the pros and cons of targetedvisitors.info.

Pros

Extremely cheap to purchase traffic, starting from $1.99 for 1000 visitors.

The ability to choose untargeted or targeted customers. Just want American traffic? Sure thing, there are packages available for you to choose.

Easy payment method, via credit card or paypal.

My application took 15 minutes to be approved.. that's fast. (Site says maximum 1-2 business days)

Want another 1000 visitors? Simply recharge your account from the easy to use control panel.

Feel like spreading your

incoming visitors over a certain period? Via the account manager you can set a daily cap. Default is 50 visitors per day.

Cons

You can't be 100% sure that they will send exactly 1000 customers. Sure web stats will help track a rough idea of hits but it can never be 100% accurate.

Does your site have illegal content, popups, background music or sound? If so you won't be able to sign up. (just the rules I'm afraid .. illegal content .. who would have thought !)

Visitors sent by the system may not be the visitors you're after. If your website is focused on a small niche, this traffic generating scheme is probably not for you.

I've signed up and purchased my first 1000 visitors. If the 1000 visitors I receive generate more than $1.99 in advertising revenue, then I see it as being worthwhile.

Only time will tell.

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