Can buying traffic cause trouble?

[brakkar]

Hello,
I plan to buy 100.000 targeted visitors traffic from a company that sells targeted traffic.

Has anyone experienced problems with these kind of deals, adsense, and thus sudden increase of traffic and clicks for the targeted visitors?

Cordially,
Brakkar

[loanuniverse]

I wouldn't as some of these "visits" might be served as popups and this is against the TOS.

Also, I seriously doubt the "targeted traffic" claim.

[conroy]

Yes it is a good way to get your account closed.

If it was so cheap and easy to get 100,000 real unique targeted visitors to your site, don't you think we would all be millionaires by now?

You are wasting your money.

[robotsdobetter]

Even worse some use automated software to do this and it's all fake hits.

[TampaLou]

It may depend on whom you are buying the hits from... If you mean you plan to buy on one keyword for X cents per click and pre-pay for 100,000 hits, that seems reasonable. But if it's a "Pay $XXX for 100,000 hits" thing, and especially if the company doesn't have a strong reputation, be careful... There's no free lunch.

[lgn1]

I buy 100,000 targeted visitors from google adwords every month. I hope they don't shut me down :)

[birdstuff]

I wouldn't as some of these "visits" might be served as popups and this is against the TOS.

Very true. I have a client who buys a substantial amount of traffic (un-targeted) via popups. He creates a special "teaser" page for each section of his site that he is driving the traffic to. This page doesn't have AdSense on it, hence no TOS violation.

If the visitor bites at his teaser copy they click through to the real site (that has AdSense on it). This setup works very well for him. Although this bought traffic isn't targeted, his site theme is such that it still converts fairly well via AdSense.

[crazy webmaster]

Doesn't make sense for me...

Let's think:
- You (and all of us) are publishers
- Our Core Business is selling ads
- In other words... we sell trafic

I think buying trafic makes no sense for the sanity of this business ;-)

One think is to exchange banners, promoting your website, etc...
But buying massive trafic on the propose of selling this part of this trafic on Adsense... bahhh

It's only my opinion... ;-)

I don't know what Google think about this...
Besides, this kind of business, of selling 100k of visitors, etc... For what I Know is mostly pop-up and other kind of unfaithfull trafic...

Think about that ;-)

[cdkrg]

The answer to this question is a big YES. Those are usually scams routing fake traffic through proxies.

I know of a few sites who have been banned from AdSense because of it, they simply didn't know they were scams and thought it was exit-exchange traffic.

It's odd, because the fake traffic doesn't click on the ads.

[birdstuff]

Those are usually scams routing fake traffic through proxies.

Most are indeed scams, but if you do your due diligence you can buy legitimate traffic. My client's purchased traffic converts well, something that "fake" traffic won't do.

[vredungmand]

You guys should know that traffic-for-traffic banner exchange programs are also being played. You send real traffic their way and they send fake traffic your way.

In short: Don't go there.

[cdkrg]

Most are indeed scams, but if you do your due diligence you can buy legitimate traffic. My client's purchased traffic converts well, something that "fake" traffic won't do.

Oh, I agree. But I don't recommend anyone do this with any pages that have ads on them, as even legitimate traffic when purchased in such manner can flag ad network attention based on the pattern.