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Paying for Website and Blog Trafficby Dan Grijzenhout

IntroductionGrowing your traffic organically can feel painfully slow especially in the early months or even years that you are trying to build a businessIt is not uncommon for people starting out to have only a couple of real website hits a day or even none at all as they are starting out. You have put a lot of effort into building your website or blogsite or your YouTube channel or Podcast channel and nobody is paying any attention to you. So you start to look for ways to get traffic to your site(s) by paying for it. But is it worth it to spend money to get the traffic to your site?

Should You Pay for Traffic?Do you have the funds available or a budget available you are willing to spend to get people to your site? Do you want the traffic badly enough that you are willing to pay the money to get the people to your site?Do you have a site that has sufficient products of interest to people that you can honestly expect that when they get there, enough will purchase something to pay for the advertising costs you have just spent?How soon do you have to start making money from your site? Is speed of conversion an issue for you?Do you care who shows up or are you just looking for volume?

These are questions only you can answer for yourself and it depends on why you built your site and what you are trying to do with it.

Good Pay-For-Traffic IdeasCreate YouTube promotional or How-to videos with links to your site and promote them on YouTube. You can get the word out with an upfront video sales pitch included at 2 cents a video view so 50 watched promotional views will only cost you $1.00.Check out a site called Adf.ly. If you just want high volume for cheap money, you can get 1,000 hits to your site for 5 seconds each for between about 40 cents and $5.00 depending which countries you choose to get them from. How good your Landing page is will depend on whether or not you keep their attention as they are most likely people involved in some form of deal where they are viewing dozens of sites to earn a penny or two in income. Not exactly a targeted viewing audience, but you can get them to your site for the few seconds guaranteed.

Good Pay-For-Traffic Ideas - 2If you want good quality, targeted leads to your site and are willing to pay 50 cents or more to get each one, Facebook Boost Posting is still the best game in town. You can narrow down your leads to gender, age range, demographic and even geography. You can get exactly the type of person in the location you want to your site but you will pay for it.Write an E-Book, get it on Amazon-Kindle and either give it away or give it away cheap enough that it can get into the Kindle KDP Select program. Be sure to put links to your site in your book. Twitter advertising is doable as well but I have found them to be very expensive for what you get. Facebook and YouTube are much cheaper.

Good Pay-For-Traffic Ideas - 3Google AdWords needs to be mentioned as well. An important option as Google has the largest search engine in the world and you can specifically target key words and keyword phrases to bring people to your site. Your options for keywords and keyword phrases are endless and if you do your research, you can get good quality leads to your site at reasonable cost although you will often find yourself Bidding for advertising placement on search results pages against other advertisers.If you are running an AdSense enabled website or blog site, do not run paid traffic at it. You could lose your AdSense privileges with Google as running paid traffic to your site goes directly against their agreement rules under the contract you signed. Be aware of this restriction people have lost their AdSense accounts with Google because of this!

Final CommentsA strategy that can work for you is to run paid traffic against one site and have it contain a number of links across to your other AdSense site at key points so you can get the best of both worlds without putting your business and relationship with Google at risk.

Trial and error over time and research will help you to find out what works for you and what doesnt. If you are in this for the long haul, over time you will develop the best traffic generation models that fit your business.

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Paying for TrafficDan GrijzenhoutPaying for Traffic2016409104.0