It seems everyone is jumping into the "traffic domain name" game
- either purchasing them for their own use or purchasing traffic
from others who own these domains. For those that don't know,
a traffic domain is one that has either expired and still receiving
traffic, or one that is being typed into the browser url location
(type-in traffic) by users looking for a particular website.
These are hot little properties but often abused as some register
typos of an existing popular domain - such as Google for example.
Yes, Virginia, there is a lot of traffic in those typos.
I own a number of expired & type-in traffic domains
and have overall had good results. The worst one gets about
10-15 visitors a day but manages to earn anywhere from $5-$20
in revenue through a pay-per-lead program I use. Combined,
all my traffic domains pump out a nice chunk of change without
me even having to host them, look at them or even think about
them.
On the other side of expired domain & type-in traffic
is services which allow you to purchase traffic from domain
names which they control and manage. Now you would think
this sounds pretty good after what I reported about my own
traffic domains, but the sad truth is that the majority of
these services are complete scams.
Oh yes, they'll deliver the "targeted" 5,000 or 10,000 "hits" you
purchased, but the reality is that the actual traffic from
their domains either doesn't exist at all (generated by software
to create an illusion of unique visitors) or comes from sources
like auto-surf sites. And it's not like you can really monitor & evaluate
this traffic to know if it's real or not, and you certainly
have no way of knowing if it's targeted or just junk hits.
You're basically putting all your trust in the site offering
the service and since none offer any guarantee that the traffic
will bring you sales, they're off the hook.
Look at it this way - let's say a service is offering 100,000
premium targeted visitors for the very low price of just
$49.95. Think about it. If you had 100,000 targeted real
visitors at your disposable, would you sell them off for
essentially pocket change? Of course not. If you were selling
a product for $29.95 and only 1% of those 100,000 visitors
made a purchase - then that would be 1000 sales totalling
$29,950. Can you really believe that they would let that
amount of money slip through their fingers just so that they
can do you a favour?
Do yourself a favour - If you're thinking of purchasing
traffic from one of these services, keep your money to invest
in more reliable and proven options or learn about finding
and registering expired domains (an article on this topic
coming soon) and register them for yourself.
Carole Nickerson has been a web developer and internet marketer
since 1998. She now spends her days actively filling up her
new blog with all she has learned. To find more
domain
names and traffic building secrets like this visit:
CaroleNickerson.com
