Paying for Traffic?

June 5, 2008 · Filed Under Search Engine Optimization

Your blog/website is up, you have your tracking set up and you get about 5 to 10 visitors a day. You have links to your site, but you still can’t get your visitor count up?
One of the first things to remember is: are you writing good articles? you need to think to yourself “what would I want from this article?” If you have good articles and your traffic goes up a bit more, but still not enough. what then?

You can actually pay for visitors. There are multiple ways in witch you can do this. You can have an adwords campaign going. You can sign up with affiliate sites. You can also trade links on a credit basis. You can even offer some websites/bloggers money for a link to your site and a good review. (the latter is mostly frowned upon.)

I’ve decided to give it a test run, to see what the outcome is of it and if it is really worth the while. I’ve signed up with NewGenTraffic, and the way they work is quite interesting.

When you sign up, you get either a basic account, or you can pay for an account. When you pay for an account, you get alot more out of the deal. For me, I’ve signed up with the free account. The way my account works:
I get a code, that I can place on my website. Similar to Google adsense advertising. Ads get displayed everytime a page is loaded. When someone clicks on one of those ads, I get credit points witch I can use to promote my own website/blog. The person who’s ad gets displayed and was clicked on, uses one of his credits for that click. with New Gen Traffic you can also Buy credits. The more credits you have the more ads you can run on other sites and the more traffic you eventually get.

So you can either wait for some visitors to come to your website and click on those ads, or you can jump the gun and buy credits. With Google adwords it works the same. You sign up with adwords and decide to display ads and how much you want to pay per click. When people visit other sites that have google adsense displayed, and your ad is clicked. You get charged with a certain amount. (you can specify how much.)
In that way, you payed for that person to come to your website.

There are many other way’s in witch you can get traffic by using this system. I will let you know what results I get after a week or so.

Robert

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