Paying for Traffic Generation?

[kory@dancedepot.com]

I'm working hard to drive more traffic to my site, and have stumbled upon
services that advertise driving "10,000 unique targeted visitors for
$19.99!". One even offers 75,000 unique hits for $129.00, or even 1 Million
visitors for $1,450.00.

Has anyone used these services? Are they for real?

My store has been live only for a couple months, but I'm getting only a
couple hundred visitors a day. How many visitors should I realistically
expect? Will I ever get a thousand visitors in a day? As always, tips are
appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Kory
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Kory Barrett
Dance Depot ­ Performance Dancewear at Discount Prices!!!
kory@dancedepot.com
http://www.dancedepot.com

[Alvin Russell]

I would save your money. Most services similar to the one you describe use
some type of program to simulate traffic.
<kory@dancedepot.com> wrote in message
news:BF88089E.BEC7%kory@dancedepot.com...

I'm working hard to drive more traffic to my site, and have stumbled upon
services that advertise driving "10,000 unique targeted visitors for
$19.99!". One even offers 75,000 unique hits for $129.00, or even 1
Million
visitors for $1,450.00.

Has anyone used these services? Are they for real?

My store has been live only for a couple months, but I'm getting only a
couple hundred visitors a day. How many visitors should I realistically
expect? Will I ever get a thousand visitors in a day? As always, tips are
appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Kory
--------------
Kory Barrett
Dance Depot ­ Performance Dancewear at Discount Prices!!!
kory@dancedepot.com
http://www.dancedepot.com

[Gary]

I have never used a service like you are looking at, but I would be
skeptical that you would get very many hits that result in sales. Some of
these services send out mass emails and you know what you do when you get
those. Others use popups or popunders to put you message on a users screen
from another site you are visiting. Again, assuming you don't block popups,
you know what you do with them.

I would suggest patience and a concerted effort to get your Google rankings
up. This takes time and can be frustrating, but it is free. In the
meantime, you could do some pay per click on Shopzilla, Shopping.com, Yahoo,
and Nextag. Results on these will vary depending on what you are selling,
but it might be better than nothing.

Hope this helps a little.

Gary

<kory@dancedepot.com> wrote in message
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I'm working hard to drive more traffic to my site, and have stumbled upon
services that advertise driving "10,000 unique targeted visitors for
$19.99!". One even offers 75,000 unique hits for $129.00, or even 1
Million
visitors for $1,450.00.

Has anyone used these services? Are they for real?

My store has been live only for a couple months, but I'm getting only a
couple hundred visitors a day. How many visitors should I realistically
expect? Will I ever get a thousand visitors in a day? As always, tips are
appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Kory
--------------
Kory Barrett
Dance Depot ­ Performance Dancewear at Discount Prices!!!
kory@dancedepot.com
http://www.dancedepot.com

[Jeff]

Working hard to drive more traffic to my site, and have stumbled upon
services that advertise... even 1 Million visitors for $1,450.00.
Has anyone used these services? Are they for real?

If those gimmicks work, why do savvy retailers pay Google 10 to 50
cents a click? Hey, give your credit card info to the Russian or Nigerian
sleazeball who runs that spam operation. Whatdaya have to lose? LOL

My store has been live only for a couple months, but I'm getting only a
couple hundred visitors a day....Will I ever get a thousand visitors in a
day?.

You're doing great, Kory. You can't believe how many commerce sites
get fewer that 50 uniques a day. I maintain an excel spread sheet showing
our competitors' sites that have visible counters. Been doing that for
years, back
to when most commerce sites had visible trackers, or at least stats programs
that could be easily hacked into. In your field, I'll guess that 1,000 would
be
possible if you added lots of dance content and paid a chunk for PPC. Won't
be
easy. Will certaily take time. You can make good money with far less
traffic.

What % of your visitors buy (that's the key question)? With a very
specialized
product like yours, about 1%-2% should make a purchase....maybe not as much
early on unti you become trusted. With time, focus less on traffic, and more
on
turning that 1% into 2%.

Jeff at
Ackley Uniforms
www.ackley-uniforms.com

[Larry Bohen]

I agree with Jeff. Converting the visitors that come to your (well designed)
Website is a cost effective (vs. pay per click, Adsense, Adwords....) area
to spend your time and/or money in.

Yahoo Search has many listings for dancedepot.com, but Google and MSN Search
do not. How long has your current site been live?

A quick review of your homepage shows that it is populated with your
keywords. I would suggest that you include 4 or 5 of your most important
keywords/phrases in your page title. Your page title currently is "Dance
Depot - Discount Dance!" It is enticing to have the name of your company in
the page title, but unless your company name is something people would enter
into a Google, Yahoo or MSN search box, you may be wasting important page
title "real estate."

Search for your 4 or 5 important keywords/phrases in Google and see who
comes up in the top three organic (free) listings. Check out their page
titles and change your page title to be similar.

--
Larry Bohen
www.audiobooksonline.com


"Jeff" <jsinger@i1.net> wrote in message
news:djucfo$n9b$1@eval.shopsite.com...

Working hard to drive more traffic to my site, and have stumbled upon
services that advertise... even 1 Million visitors for $1,450.00.
Has anyone used these services? Are they for real?


If those gimmicks work, why do savvy retailers pay Google 10 to 50
cents a click? Hey, give your credit card info to the Russian or Nigerian
sleazeball who runs that spam operation. Whatdaya have to lose? LOL


My store has been live only for a couple months, but I'm getting only a
couple hundred visitors a day....Will I ever get a thousand visitors in a
day?.

You're doing great, Kory. You can't believe how many commerce sites
get fewer that 50 uniques a day. I maintain an excel spread sheet showing
our competitors' sites that have visible counters. Been doing that for
years, back
to when most commerce sites had visible trackers, or at least stats
programs
that could be easily hacked into. In your field, I'll guess that 1,000
would be
possible if you added lots of dance content and paid a chunk for PPC.
Won't be
easy. Will certaily take time. You can make good money with far less
traffic.

What % of your visitors buy (that's the key question)? With a very
specialized
product like yours, about 1%-2% should make a purchase....maybe not as
much
early on unti you become trusted. With time, focus less on traffic, and
more on
turning that 1% into 2%.

Jeff at
Ackley Uniforms
www.ackley-uniforms.com

[Larry Bohen]

Correction to what I said below. I just checked for dancedepot.com at MSN
Web Search and found that you have many listings.

--
Larry Bohen
www.audiobooksonline.com
"Larry Bohen" <lbohen@audiobooksonline.com> wrote in message
news:djvhcf$4f2$1@eval.shopsite.com...

I agree with Jeff. Converting the visitors that come to your (well
designed) Website is a cost effective (vs. pay per click, Adsense,
Adwords....) area to spend your time and/or money in.

Yahoo Search has many listings for dancedepot.com, but Google and MSN
Search do not. How long has your current site been live?

A quick review of your homepage shows that it is populated with your
keywords. I would suggest that you include 4 or 5 of your most important
keywords/phrases in your page title. Your page title currently is "Dance
Depot - Discount Dance!" It is enticing to have the name of your company
in the page title, but unless your company name is something people would
enter into a Google, Yahoo or MSN search box, you may be wasting important
page title "real estate."

Search for your 4 or 5 important keywords/phrases in Google and see who
comes up in the top three organic (free) listings. Check out their page
titles and change your page title to be similar.

--
Larry Bohen
www.audiobooksonline.com


"Jeff" <jsinger@i1.net> wrote in message
news:djucfo$n9b$1@eval.shopsite.com...
Working hard to drive more traffic to my site, and have stumbled upon
services that advertise... even 1 Million visitors for $1,450.00.
Has anyone used these services? Are they for real?


If those gimmicks work, why do savvy retailers pay Google 10 to 50
cents a click? Hey, give your credit card info to the Russian or Nigerian
sleazeball who runs that spam operation. Whatdaya have to lose? LOL


My store has been live only for a couple months, but I'm getting only a
couple hundred visitors a day....Will I ever get a thousand visitors in
a day?.

You're doing great, Kory. You can't believe how many commerce sites
get fewer that 50 uniques a day. I maintain an excel spread sheet showing
our competitors' sites that have visible counters. Been doing that for
years, back
to when most commerce sites had visible trackers, or at least stats
programs
that could be easily hacked into. In your field, I'll guess that 1,000
would be
possible if you added lots of dance content and paid a chunk for PPC.
Won't be
easy. Will certaily take time. You can make good money with far less
traffic.

What % of your visitors buy (that's the key question)? With a very
specialized
product like yours, about 1%-2% should make a purchase....maybe not as
much
early on unti you become trusted. With time, focus less on traffic, and
more on
turning that 1% into 2%.

Jeff at
Ackley Uniforms
www.ackley-uniforms.com