Web Traffic Sold on Ebay?

Ive been checking out these listings promising XXXXX number of visitors to your site on eBay.

Anyone ever uses this?

Just remember, there are "visitors" and there are visitors. Firstly, anyone can write a little application to hit your server 100,000 in an hour through a number of proxy servers. We have test routines which ping our server with hundreds of requests a minute to see if it can handle the traffic before we launch. We route some of these requests through servers in non-EU and non-US locations, to check DNS response times. So the first question is "are the 1,000s of promised visitors real, or are they just server requests from automated services?"

The next question is if you are selling "wheel nuts for Formula 1 cars", this is a fairly restricted market. What would be the point of receiving 10,000 hits, if they were all from Joe Public, who is actually looking for "pushchairs" or "cheap holidays"? So you need to ask "what is the acheivable conversion rate of visitor to buyer?"

Finally, where are these links appearing? Traffic needs to be directed from somewhere, whether it is word-of-mouth, email or website links. What does their site look like? Are they spamming 10,000 people with your details, and in so doing giving your site a bad name? So you need to ask yourself, how has the user managed to get this number of "visitors" to actually click on a link to your site?

I only ever recommend purchasing advertising, or PPC campaigns from someone who has been recommended to you, and you can see the results that others have acheived. Remember, just because a site has 100 testimonials, or someone you don't know recommends them, it doesn't make them any more legitimate. You need to get a reference from someone you trust!

Absolute

Looked too good to be true! It was selling for about $0.99!

Hello,

New to the forum but sold online for a few years now.

This traffic is useless, you want to focus on targetted traffic, to begin with laser targetted traffic and work on getting those converted.

I'd guess that for most sites, the majority of the traffic arrives via some sort of Google search. Yahoo and Bing likely feature on a lesser scale.

Hopefully you'll find some sites that will link to you, and if you're lucky they might will bring a reasonable amount of traffic. Having a profile on both Twitter and Facebook can also be very useful in getting your Brand Name out there and pulling people in.

Once in a very long time you might be linked to by a third party site that brings a substantial amount of traffic. I'm aware of one site where this happens. The linking site is one that discusses certain widgets. The owner of the site is a consumer of those widgets, and loves them so much he writes about them all the time. He also links out to any other site that discusses or sells these widgets, anywhere in the world. Many people read his site to find out about the latest widgets.

We got a link from this site without even asking. One day the guy from the other site 'followed' the company Twitter account. A few days later he's written a review on his site about some new widgets and linked to two sites selling them. He's also listed several retailers of those widgets on another page of his site. Six months later and those two links still account for 14% (was closer to 20% in the first few days) of the site traffic (Yahoo is currently providing 11% and Google provides 32%) and many of the visitors coming from that other site do buy the product.

Sometimes you can get lucky. :clap: