Where you could be wasting your money

Buying website traffic sounds like a great idea to save time and quickly get your website on the right path. However, few people take the time to really think that decision through. In reality there is very little chance that you can effectively determine if a service is really doing a service. Sure you may get hits but that is not to say that you are getting real visitors. It is a guessing game that even with analytical data cannot be determined.

For example let's say you buy a 1,000 visitors to your site you may receive a 1,000 hits from all over the country or world, but you have no way of knowing if they were real. So you keep trying to tweak your copy to make it effective. Well if the visitors are a bot that time and money was wasted if you are looking for sells or subscribers. If you simply want to add traffic to try and boost your alexa rankings be careful there as well.

The moral of the story is organic traffic built through your own efforts is the most cost effective and taking short cuts could cost more than it saves...and where is the fun in that.