Have you ever seen advertisements for 10,000 targeted visitors for $10. Usually I just brush those adverts aside, reminding myself of the old adage “you get what you pay for”. But it occured to me $10 is worth about 4 adsense clicks on some of my high paying keyword sites. Surely out of thousands of visitors I could manage to get enough clicks to easily cover my small investment. Well it was worth a shot and so I set up an experiment to see if there was something in paid traffic.

If you are like me and often look for easy options online, you have probably at some point come across paying for diggs to get one of your pages on the front page of Digg and receive a heap of traffic. Well in my quest for furthering the knowledge of webmasters (particularly lazy ones) I thought I would try a Paid Digg service and document my results.

I probably should start with a disclaimer and re-iterate the fact there are two rather large variables with this experiment. The first is the paid digg provider as there are hundreds of individuals and companies offering this service with (you would assume) vastly different results. The second which pertains to all viral type marketing is the quality of the product available, in my case the quality of my article. If my article is total rubbish, it won’t matter how good the paid digg service is I will never see the front page.

I am sure you have heard the phrase “traffic is gold”. In fact I would like to amend that to read “relevant traffic is gold”. But the question I have been asking myself recently, is how do I obtain more relevant traffic for my blog Scribblescratch? One option I have often contemplated, but never actually tried is a guest post on another popular and reputable blog.