Traffic - I need good advice on buying traffic

[Simon]

Hiya digifan Good point about where the traffic is being sent. I've been noting what each poster has been saying about the different sources for purchased traffic, and I can see that some traffic is good for certain things while other traffic is better for others. I appreciate the lead to doggieteens. We don't do a lot with teens, but there are always category pages that can use more attention. Thanks for the info on the trade script too. That's another thing I've never done, use a trade script. Maybe one day I'll try something like that to learn more about it, but for now I'm only looking to send traffic to no-skim sites where I hope the surfers will hang around awhile. I guess that means I'm already taking those risks.

Hi nekrom - Thanks for the input. I see I'm going to have to learn a bit more about toplists sometime soon. While we've used them, I've never done it with purchased traffic. I can see how the return traffic would be nicely filtered, but I need to find out more about how we can send the traffic to the toplists. I'm wondering if some toplists let you send traffic right to them, or whether using an interim/landing page isn't only a good idea, but actually a requirement.

I appreciate all the feedback so far. I'm probably going to start some tests this week, so feel free to jump in if you have some thoughts, opinions or caveats.

Simon