There are different methods of buying traffic depending on your purposes and type of site you are buying to.
Buying traffic by niche is the easiest way to buy a good feeder to niched free sites. The productivity of this traffic on your site is supposed to be average and the main advantage is that you can order high amount to boost your sites.
Buying traffic by domain is the best way to get the highest possible productivity on your site. Choosing the domain from appropriate niche, content type and with thumb size equal or lower than on your site will show the best result.
Anyway try to order traffic from 3-4 different domains to avoid traffic drops during the day.
If you have a non-english site or site with specific country audience, the best choice is to buy traffic by country.
Free script traffic is okay for feeding free sites, but it's quality is lower than niched or even mixed niche traffic. Don't expect high productivity from it. But using country filters can increase the worth of this traffic and it can show good results on blogs and other non-trade free sites.
Traffic from special types section is not supposed to be used for feeding tgp/mgp sites. 95% of this traffic won't be counted as coming from your site in most trade scripts. Moreover you can be banned by your traders for such type of traffic. This traffic can be used for special conversion schemes.
Buying traffic by niche is the easiest way to buy a good feeder to niched free sites. The productivity of this traffic on your site is supposed to be average and the main advantage is that you can order high amount to boost your sites.
Buying traffic by domain is the best way to get the highest possible productivity on your site. Choosing the domain from appropriate niche, content type and with thumb size equal or lower than on your site will show the best result.
Anyway try to order traffic from 3-4 different domains to avoid traffic drops during the day.
If you have a non-english site or site with specific country audience, the best choice is to buy traffic by country.
Free script traffic is okay for feeding free sites, but it's quality is lower than niched or even mixed niche traffic. Don't expect high productivity from it. But using country filters can increase the worth of this traffic and it can show good results on blogs and other non-trade free sites.
Traffic from special types section is not supposed to be used for feeding tgp/mgp sites. 95% of this traffic won't be counted as coming from your site in most trade scripts. Moreover you can be banned by your traders for such type of traffic. This traffic can be used for special conversion schemes.
You can apply geo filtration to every order, except direct country orders. For small additional fee you can filter out non-desirable countries.
Another filter you can use – selling sites blocking filter. Here you can block specific domains. This can be useful if you buy traffic by niche or mixed niche and want to block some referrers which do not fit your site in your opinion.
Tip: good results could be achieved by combining buying traffic from mixed niche with appropriate blocking filter usage. You can start with 1000 hits order from mixed niche without any domains blocked, then in your trade script you need to check top referrers in received traffic. Add these referrers as disabled trades in your trade scrip so you can track productivity from each domain. Estimate the productivity with next 1-2k hits. After it you will find out traffic from which domains show the lowest productivity. Add these domains to selling sites blocking filter. This way you filter out non productive traffic and can enjoy good quality for a lower price. Remember that top referrers in mixed niche may change with a period of time. So you should check your top referrers for received traffic once in 2-3 days for best results.
Another filter you can use – selling sites blocking filter. Here you can block specific domains. This can be useful if you buy traffic by niche or mixed niche and want to block some referrers which do not fit your site in your opinion.
Tip: good results could be achieved by combining buying traffic from mixed niche with appropriate blocking filter usage. You can start with 1000 hits order from mixed niche without any domains blocked, then in your trade script you need to check top referrers in received traffic. Add these referrers as disabled trades in your trade scrip so you can track productivity from each domain. Estimate the productivity with next 1-2k hits. After it you will find out traffic from which domains show the lowest productivity. Add these domains to selling sites blocking filter. This way you filter out non productive traffic and can enjoy good quality for a lower price. Remember that top referrers in mixed niche may change with a period of time. So you should check your top referrers for received traffic once in 2-3 days for best results.
For every order you can customize hourly distribution in smart hour delivery menu.
There you can set variable forces for every hour from 0 to 23. Use it only if you are advanced user and sure in what you are doing. This option may help your site to drive more traffic to trades in specific hours when total amount of traffic is lower than average.
There you can set variable forces for every hour from 0 to 23. Use it only if you are advanced user and sure in what you are doing. This option may help your site to drive more traffic to trades in specific hours when total amount of traffic is lower than average.
If you buy traffic from niches or mixed niche is good to know it's productivity on your site to optimize buying campaign. In most trade scripts traffic you buy in TrafficShop.com will be treated as no-trade traffic. This way it is mixed with other no-trade traffic (it can be SE, links from boards etc) and you can't define exact productivity of traffic you buy.
There are some methods to track productivity in different trade scripts. For atl/atx trade scripts you need to use an additional tracking module, visit ArrowScript homepage and forum for more info.
Several popular trade scripts ( Proton, Progress and Trade Pulse) can track hits from different sources with their own ref parameter. To use this you need to add as a disabled trader some domain name of your choice, for example feeder.com. Then add your url you want to get traffic to for approve in TrafficShop.com in such way: http://www.yourdomain.com/?ref=feeder.com. This way you can see your feeder productivity in your trade script as productivity of feeder.com trader.
There are some methods to track productivity in different trade scripts. For atl/atx trade scripts you need to use an additional tracking module, visit ArrowScript homepage and forum for more info.
Several popular trade scripts ( Proton, Progress and Trade Pulse) can track hits from different sources with their own ref parameter. To use this you need to add as a disabled trader some domain name of your choice, for example feeder.com. Then add your url you want to get traffic to for approve in TrafficShop.com in such way: http://www.yourdomain.com/?ref=feeder.com. This way you can see your feeder productivity in your trade script as productivity of feeder.com trader.
You need to be very experienced in traffic converting to buy traffic directly to pay sites and get revenue from it. Buying traffic directly to your pay site tour in 99% will not work. It's always better to use some landing page with good hand-picked free samples and considered ad spaces. This way you can get more targeted traffic to your pay site tours.
For such purposes we suggest you to use direct domain orders with geo filtration applied.
In most cases individual methods are needed, feel free to contact our support to find out the best way of buying traffic to your pay site.
For such purposes we suggest you to use direct domain orders with geo filtration applied.
In most cases individual methods are needed, feel free to contact our support to find out the best way of buying traffic to your pay site.
There are several ways to sell you traffic to TrafficShop.com.
a) Forces
If you use a trade script you can add TrafficShop.com as a trader. In url field for this trader you should set your personal link for selling traffic http://go.trafficshop.com/PERSONALCODE/.
This is the easiest but not the smartest method, because it may cause some deviations in your traders out list, which can affect in traffic drop. Be careful with force amount.
b) Text links
The most harmless way to sell traffic. Using this method won't affect your traders and your outgoing productivity in any way. You just need to place a bunch of text links with good anchors leading to TrafficShop.com (it should be the links with your personal code, of course). Usually the links are placed below the blocks of thumbnails on tgp/mgp sites.
Selling traffic this way your clicks will show high productivity and will be sold by high average price. The only disadvantage is that the amount of traffic you send to TrafficShop.com is quite low and you can't manage it.
c) Thumbnail spots
This is the most popular way for selling traffic. You just need to assign the exact thumb spots on your site which will lead to TrafficShop.com via your personal link. Do not 100% skimming from this spot to TrafficShop.com. Make it something like 50% to your trades and 50% for selling.
Some advices to increase your traffic quality and get higher revenue:
do not place selling spots in the first two rows of thumbnails
do not place more than 20% of thumbnails as a selling spots (the best is 5-10%)
do not place more than 1 selling spot in the row
>place your selling spots random, try not to place them in every row after the 3rd (ex. 3, 5, 7 row etc) It will increase your uniqueness, productivity and selling percentage.
Remember that every selling spot equals 0% skimming to content for a surfer. So you need to increase percentage of clicks to galleries for other spots. Try to set your content skimming not lower than 55%, otherwise your outgoing prod can be very low.
For this selling method use also a dynamic back-url feature to treat your return traffic the best way.
d) Gallery traffic
In case you use your own galleries on your site you can sell some traffic to TrafficShop.com from gallery pages. Remember that the surfer who visits your gallery is very valuable one – he is a potential buyer of pay membership. So you can place several text links in your gallery pages leading to TrafficShop.com ( with your personal code) to get some extra revenue. Do not link any content thumbnails to TrafficShop.com because it's cheating a surfer and can be treated as 404 traffic. (TrafficShop.com doesn't accept 404 traffic)
a) Forces
If you use a trade script you can add TrafficShop.com as a trader. In url field for this trader you should set your personal link for selling traffic http://go.trafficshop.com/PERSONALCODE/.
This is the easiest but not the smartest method, because it may cause some deviations in your traders out list, which can affect in traffic drop. Be careful with force amount.
b) Text links
The most harmless way to sell traffic. Using this method won't affect your traders and your outgoing productivity in any way. You just need to place a bunch of text links with good anchors leading to TrafficShop.com (it should be the links with your personal code, of course). Usually the links are placed below the blocks of thumbnails on tgp/mgp sites.
Selling traffic this way your clicks will show high productivity and will be sold by high average price. The only disadvantage is that the amount of traffic you send to TrafficShop.com is quite low and you can't manage it.
c) Thumbnail spots
This is the most popular way for selling traffic. You just need to assign the exact thumb spots on your site which will lead to TrafficShop.com via your personal link. Do not 100% skimming from this spot to TrafficShop.com. Make it something like 50% to your trades and 50% for selling.
Some advices to increase your traffic quality and get higher revenue:
do not place selling spots in the first two rows of thumbnails
do not place more than 20% of thumbnails as a selling spots (the best is 5-10%)
do not place more than 1 selling spot in the row
>place your selling spots random, try not to place them in every row after the 3rd (ex. 3, 5, 7 row etc) It will increase your uniqueness, productivity and selling percentage.
Remember that every selling spot equals 0% skimming to content for a surfer. So you need to increase percentage of clicks to galleries for other spots. Try to set your content skimming not lower than 55%, otherwise your outgoing prod can be very low.
For this selling method use also a dynamic back-url feature to treat your return traffic the best way.
d) Gallery traffic
In case you use your own galleries on your site you can sell some traffic to TrafficShop.com from gallery pages. Remember that the surfer who visits your gallery is very valuable one – he is a potential buyer of pay membership. So you can place several text links in your gallery pages leading to TrafficShop.com ( with your personal code) to get some extra revenue. Do not link any content thumbnails to TrafficShop.com because it's cheating a surfer and can be treated as 404 traffic. (TrafficShop.com doesn't accept 404 traffic)
The are some customizable selling settings for advanced users in TrafficShop.com
sell unsold niche traffic into mixed niche: if checked your unsold niche traffic is being sold through mixed niche categories. The price for mixed niche is a bit lower than niched price, but it's anyway better to sell traffic than get it back.
sell traffic to sites with streaming movies content: if unchecked your traffic is not sold to sites with tube content. Useful for some high quality picture sites? But can decrease your selling percentage.
sell traffic to direct domain orders only: if checked your traffic is being sold only to direct orders from your domain. Be careful with checking this option because if it's no direct order all traffic will be return back to you.
sell traffic to accounts with status: you can choose to sell traffic only to buyers with exact account status. In TrafficShop.com there are 4 account statuses: new – accounts created less than 1 month ago; normal – 90% of all accounts; trusted – accounts of well-known webmasters with good history; vip – account of well-known webmasters with great history and huge amounts of selling/buying traffic. Unchecking any of checkbox here may decrease your selling percentage.
minimal selling price threshold: here you can set the minimal price your traffic will be sold. Do not set it too high because it may dramatically decrease your selling percentage.
Using blocking filters.
You can block exact sites from buying your traffic. Is you suppose some site unappropriated for your traffic put it to your personal blocking filter. This is not system ban or abuse, this is just your personal decision. The owner of blocked site will not be notified in any way that you blocked him.
sell unsold niche traffic into mixed niche: if checked your unsold niche traffic is being sold through mixed niche categories. The price for mixed niche is a bit lower than niched price, but it's anyway better to sell traffic than get it back.
sell traffic to sites with streaming movies content: if unchecked your traffic is not sold to sites with tube content. Useful for some high quality picture sites? But can decrease your selling percentage.
sell traffic to direct domain orders only: if checked your traffic is being sold only to direct orders from your domain. Be careful with checking this option because if it's no direct order all traffic will be return back to you.
sell traffic to accounts with status: you can choose to sell traffic only to buyers with exact account status. In TrafficShop.com there are 4 account statuses: new – accounts created less than 1 month ago; normal – 90% of all accounts; trusted – accounts of well-known webmasters with good history; vip – account of well-known webmasters with great history and huge amounts of selling/buying traffic. Unchecking any of checkbox here may decrease your selling percentage.
minimal selling price threshold: here you can set the minimal price your traffic will be sold. Do not set it too high because it may dramatically decrease your selling percentage.
Using blocking filters.
You can block exact sites from buying your traffic. Is you suppose some site unappropriated for your traffic put it to your personal blocking filter. This is not system ban or abuse, this is just your personal decision. The owner of blocked site will not be notified in any way that you blocked him.
It's very important to set real information in “resource type”, “content type” and “niche” fields while adding a new url for approve. Your traffic is tested according this information. Providing false information will result in low testing productivity and average price. So in general it lowers your revenue.
Using dynamic back-url allows you to treat your return traffic more carefully. The best way to use this option if you selling from specific thumb spots on your TGP/MGP site is to set the relevant gallery as a back-url for each selling spot. This way you increase your content % = your traffic quality. Here are the examples of template settings for SmartThumbs and StreamRotator thumb rotating scripts and at3 trading script.
SmartThumbs users:
For at3 trade script your script address field in SmartThumbs settings should look like this: cgi-bin/at3/out.cgi?s=#skim#&#u=#url#
You need to add a variable #var1# to this string before #url# parameter, so it should look like this after that: cgi-bin/at3/out.cgi?s=#skim#&#u=#var1##url#
Than you have to set some changes in the SmartThumbs template page for your TrafficShop selling spots. You need to add a "&var1=http://go.trafficshop.com/PERSONALCODE/?bu=" line at the end of the selling spot template, so it should look like this:
<a href="#url0_group1_categoryALL#100&var1=http://go.trafficshop.com/PERSONALCODE/?bu=">
Do not forget to replace PERSONALCODE with your personal selling link code from your TrafficShop admin area.
StreamRotator users:
use this subtemplate code for TrafficShop selling spots
<a href="streamrotator/out.php?l=#POS#&u=cgi-bin/at3/out.cgi?u=http://go.trafficshop.com/PERSONALCODE/?bu=#GAL#">
Do not forget to replace PERSONALCODE with your personal selling link code from your TrafficShop admin area.
SmartThumbs users:
For at3 trade script your script address field in SmartThumbs settings should look like this: cgi-bin/at3/out.cgi?s=#skim#&#u=#url#
You need to add a variable #var1# to this string before #url# parameter, so it should look like this after that: cgi-bin/at3/out.cgi?s=#skim#&#u=#var1##url#
Than you have to set some changes in the SmartThumbs template page for your TrafficShop selling spots. You need to add a "&var1=http://go.trafficshop.com/PERSONALCODE/?bu=" line at the end of the selling spot template, so it should look like this:
<a href="#url0_group1_categoryALL#100&var1=http://go.trafficshop.com/PERSONALCODE/?bu=">
Do not forget to replace PERSONALCODE with your personal selling link code from your TrafficShop admin area.
StreamRotator users:
use this subtemplate code for TrafficShop selling spots
<a href="streamrotator/out.php?l=#POS#&u=cgi-bin/at3/out.cgi?u=http://go.trafficshop.com/PERSONALCODE/?bu=#GAL#">
Do not forget to replace PERSONALCODE with your personal selling link code from your TrafficShop admin area.
General questions
- How long does it take for new url to be approved?
- It takes 1-2 hours.
- Do you accept non-adult websites?
- No, we don't.
- What are the rules for buying and selling sites?
- Please check the Terms section to find all the rules and other useful information.
- How often are the stats in admin area updated?
- The stats in admin area are updated every 5 minutes.
- Why should I place your button on my sites?
- You get several benefits placing our affiliate button on your sites. If you are a traffic buyer, you will get 5% discount on all orders to the landing page with our affiliate button. Also you can refer other webmasters using your affiliate link. You will get 5% recurring commission on all orders made by your referrals.
- What countries are considered as HQ (X1 package)?
- HQ countries are: AU Australia, AT Austria, BE Belgium, CA Canada, CZ Czech Republic, DK Denmark, FI Finland, FR France, DE Germany, GR Greece, HU Hungary, IS Iceland, IE Ireland, IT Italy, LU Luxembourg, NL Netherlands, NZ New Zealand, NO Norway, ES Spain, SE Sweden, SK Slovakia, CH Switzerland, US USA, GB United Kingdom.
- What are LOW quality countries?
- Low quality countries are: CN China, EG Egypt, BR Brazil, TR Turkey, IN India. These countries are filtered out from all orders and can be sold through direct country orders only.
Buying traffic
- Can I expect the same productivity from the selling sources on my sites as it stated?
- We are proud of our productivity testing system. No other traffic broker has even something similar. We test traffic sources' productivity on lots of different pages with different thumb sizes. We use niche and content type correspondence and special algorithm to calculate the tested productivity as much closer to real as possible. Anyway, in some cases the productivity of exact traffic source on your site can differ from the tested result.
- I want to test your traffic quality. Can you send me some amount for free?
- No, we can't. TrafficShop.com is a system which resells traffic from different owners and we have to pay every owner for traffic he sends.
- I've made an order. When do I start receiving hits?
- You will receive first hit right after we get the appropriate one from the seller's source. Usually it's 1-2 minutes after the order has been made.
- If I order traffic from specific niche or directly from domain, will I receive proxy and other crap traffic?
- No, you will not. All traffic is cleaned from no-cookie, no-referrer, no-java script, proxy and AOL proxy. Also we filter out all China traffic. So if you buy traffic by niche or by direct domain order you will get pure good traffic. All filtered traffic is available only by direct order in the special type section.
Selling traffic
- What does a backurl mean?
- Some of the traffic you send to our system can not be sold due to different reasons (low test productivity, lack of niched or domain orders, bad countries etc.) We return this unsold traffic to the backurl you define in your admin area. Also you can use the dynamic backurl (see User guide for more info).
- I'm ready to sell my traffic through your system. What price can I expect?
- Average price you get for your traffic depends on different parameters: niche you sell traffic in, content type etc. But mainly it depends on quality of your traffic: your test productivity, countries, languages etc
- How much of my traffic do you take to test my domain's productivity?
- We take 20-30% of incoming traffic from new domain. When we get 100 hits from particular domain we take 1-2% of incoming traffic but not less than 30 hits daily.
Finances
- What payment methods are available in TrafficShop for making and receiving payments?
- You can add and receive funds from your TrafficShop account using ePassporte, Credit Card, Bank Wire, PayPal and WebMoney.
- How long does it take to process incoming and outgoing money transfers?
- We process all money transfers manually, so it takes about 24 hours on business days for both incoming and outgoing transfers. Payments are not processed during weekend.
- How often the sum on the balance is updated?
- The sum on your balance is updated in real time.
- Can use your system for exchanging electronic currencies?
- No, you can't. Accounts being used for exchanging electronic currencies are banned by our abuse team.
- What is the minimal payout I can request?
- It's $50 for all payment options.
- Is there any commission for money transfers?
- There is no any commission for incoming transfers. For outgoing transfers we charge 0.8 % for WebMoney payment and $0.30-$3.00 for ePassporte payment.
- Can I receive a ePassporte payment to the controlled ePassporte account with locked p2p?
- Yes, you can.
