What are good sources to buy traffic and video views?
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I am looking into buying traffic for a website and I'd like to know if anyone has had a positive experience doing so. What are the best companies that sell traffic?
I also want to buy video views. This is a trickier question. I upload the videos to YouTube and use the embed code on my website. I want the paid video views on my site so I get the traffic and YT gets the video view.
Any suggestions? Thanks
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What are good sources to buy traffic and video views?
If you want numbers then I don't think that there are any good sources. However, if you are promoting to a specific audience then try Adwords.
Most SEOs don't recommend buying traffic... instead they recommend setting a goal of who you want to target and what you want them to do when they arrive at the site - then defining a traffic source to accomplish that goal. Possible traffic sources might be Adwords, banner ads on specific sites, etc. or it could be as radical as buying a successful website.
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Define "best"
Are you looking for 1) the most cost-efficient way to get your numbers artificially up and make your site look more attractive to advertisers?
Or 2) A company that sells qualified, useful visitors who may be in some way interested in what you have to sell?
(2 doesn't actually exist)
Also, apart from a couple of experiments posted on SEOmoz, I don't know of anybody that has managed to raise their SERP rankings through traffic spikes for more than a day or two.
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