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Quote9:55 pm
June 7, 2011
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I haven't personally tried it for traffic, but usually there are not any real short cuts to traffic. Most of the people selling traffic wholesale like that are using automation and the visitors are worthless. Might even hurt your site with SEO because the bounce rate will be so high. If you see a particular gig that is really interesting I'm sure a single gig won't hurt you. But I'd be surprised if you saw any meaningful results.
Fiverr is best for SEO and things like that.
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10:03 pm
February 2, 2012
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Many of them claim to have a very large list of followers that they will promote your site to. Of course, that's not very targeted. Some guarantee actual Likes and Video or Song plays, which means that there wouldn't be much of a bounce rate. They seem to get positive reviews, so it doesn't seem dangerous to use them. Just kind of mass exposure.
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10:35 pm
June 7, 2011
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The thing is that usually the traffic comes to the site for a few seconds and leaves (bounces). That tells Google that your quality is low quality and can hurt you in the serps. And despite what people say, the traffic often automated. Most people are using traffic like this to boost their Alexa rating so they can either command more from advertisers or help the value of a site for a potential sale. But again, there may be something worth while out there. That's just a general rule. A single gig won't hurt you. If you see the usual amount of blog comments. subscribers and sales, then you have something worth while.
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10:07 pm
October 26, 2011
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I have recently bought a gig for traffic from fiverr and I think that you are right John. I have had about 170 visitors all staying for 0-30 secs and no email sign ups-not sure what the sign up rate should be, but I would imagine at least 1 sign up?
3:41 am
June 7, 2011
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Hey Ekow, yeah, with even a poor squeeze page you should still see at least 10%.
Reb, there are endless sources of traffic. JV traffic or paid email blasts typically perform the best. Paid advertising is the easiest but riskiest. I have used Adwords, Facebook, and Adcenter a good deal. And SEO is free a really good quality, but it takes some time. Youtube, social media, article marketing and forums are other strategies I have used a good deal. But there are many more out there.
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7:17 am
March 13, 2012
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Not quite what you're asking...but: I posted a gig on Fiverr with a link to a YouTube video.
Basically it's a Happy Birthday song that we'll "personalize" for $5. We've only had one order but somehow it created a lot of traffic to the video. It's about to hit 5000 views (which is way ahead of any of our other videos)
Here's the video
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Real music for real kids, with love from Africa
10:21 pm
June 7, 2011
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Hey Graeme, posting a gig is certainly an interesting way of getting some traffic. But of course it wouldn't be very targeted. What Reb is talking about is paying $5 to have someone actually drive traffic to your site. It's generally a bad idea as for $5 the traffic is terrible quality and can usually hurt more than help.
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4:21 pm
August 27, 2011
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If you're going to use traffic for Fiverr, you need to work with someone who has a great reputation and who indicates where the links are coming from. For instance, I've heard that there are people who will create links for you based on Angela's Links (which is a paid membership that submits new and high PR ranking sites where you can create profiles and links back to your site) - this would appear to be safe way to get links.
However, going heavy with any single link type is a flag to Google that you're getting 'unnatural' links - so even if this option works for you...don't go over kill on it.
Another approach to consider is one that Ryan Deiss mentions where you take these mass links and submit them to a trusted authority site - like your itunes page, Amazon page or Facebook page. This way you're keeping those cheap links at arm's length from your own website, but can still get the benefits of people either buying from those pages or finding their way to you main site and getting on your list.
I haven't actually tested this out, but it seems a way to get the best of both worlds: cheap traffic/links without a negative impact from Google.
This is more the SEO route that John mentioned, not a direct way to buy traffic to send directly to your site or squeeze page - but I thought I'd share anyway.
3:29 am
June 7, 2011
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Hey Mike,
Just to avoid confusion for anyone else reading this, I think Reb was referring to straight traffic offers. I think they are garbage on Fiverr. But I use Fiverr for SEO a lot and have seen great improvements with my ranking. Nothing negative to report yet. But yes, with SEO you always need to be building links from a wide variety of sources over a long (and natural looking) period of time.
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3:54 pm
June 10, 2011
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This isn't about getting links from Fiver, but I think it may be similar so I will post it here.
Recently I have been getting hounded with phone calls from a company that claims that for a monthly fee, thay can increase my SEO and build links to my site. The fee is based on how much time they spend and how many links they come up with. They keep suggesting I start with their $100 per month deal, or as an alternative just "rent" their software and do the labor myself. Sounds a bit fishy to me? I asked the guy if there were quality links that would actually stay on my site, and he assured me that they were.
They claim that they were referred to me by my webhosting company (Hostgator) because Hostgator wants their clients to be successful. I told them from the start that I might be interested someday, but definitely not now. The last time they called, I reminded them of this and told them to stop calling me, which resulted in me getting cussed out and hung up on!
Has anybody had any good experience with companies like this? Looking back over some of the previous posts pretty much answers my question, but it would be nice to know if there are any companies that actually do produce decent results
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10:07 pm
June 7, 2011
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Hey Greg, geez. You should call Hostgator and let them know. I'm sure they would cringe at the idea of someone swearing at them and hanging up. That sounds really f'd up. It could be that they just search for new websites, look them up on whois.net and then email or call pretending that they were referred. That sounds about right the more I think about it.
There are legit companies out there, but there are also a million companies out there. I wouldn't EVER go with someone that wasn't referred. More and more of them are just using fiverr.
I would just spend $5 a week on one gig and make sure it's a different gig each week and that you go with people with a good rating. Then you can increase the frequency when funds warrant it. Just make sure you know what keywords you are trying to rank for and why.
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10:34 am
June 10, 2011
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Yeah, I think you're right John. I should call Hostgator and let them know. I wrote the name of the company down somewhere....Link-Angel, or something along those lines. The more I think about it, it has been the same two people that have called me each time, and each call is sounding more urgent. I'm starting to picture two or three guys in a small rented office with a few telephones and computers, and the next months rent is coming up soon. 
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11:57 pm
June 7, 2011
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That sounds about right to me. Let me know if anything comes of it.
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