Traffic - I need good advice on buying traffic

[Simon]

I think I keep trying things I've never done before just so I can keep my Elder Noob status validated.

So what haven't I ever done before?

Well, for one thing, I've never purchased any traffic. Yes, I've used SE pay per click, but never straight out just purchased some traffic. And lately I've been wondering if there aren't some good uses for purchased traffic that I've just skipped over by not knowing enough about it.

So I'm looking to learn more about buying traffic, and I hope that there are some people here who are smarter than me about this and willing to share what they know.

In order to learn more, I'd like to send some purchased traffic to one or more of our sites. Depending on what I learn here it may just be one site, but I have some options on the kinds of site(s) to which I could send the traffic.

From what I can tell, there seem to be various sources of purchased traffic. Like the services that sell text links on various sites on a per click basis. And the traffic brokers which seem to have a variety of kinds of traffic available. Plus whatever other sources for purchased traffic you can tell me about.

I think we've all heard it said many times that if the traffic was worth anything they wouldn't be selling it. I can see how that might apply, but I'd also guess there's more to it than that. So if anyone wants to weigh in on that, or just wants to tell me why you think I should/shouldn't buy some traffic, please do.

I'll take all the good general advice and tips I can get, and any personal recommendations on good/bad traffic sources would be appreciated.

Simon


P.S. If you have some great traffic secrets and sources you don't want to share with the whole world, you can always contact me privately too.