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.

Today I have finally gotten around to adding a feed and a twitter profile for the site. Probably should have done this months ago but it was one of those annoying little task that I never put enough priority on. If you care to glance to your right you will notice a slight change in the sidebar with two little icons taking prominence. Hopefully this will improve the sites retention rate and increase the number of return visitors.

Whilst moderating these comments I have noticed trends with spammers trying to get their links published on my site. Some are plain stupid, some are completely irrelevant to the site and some are copied and pasted across many sites. I think the funniest part of the following list is all of these comments have been collected from my site within the last 14 days only. I am sure many of you have had similar experiences and I expect some more classic comments added in my own comment section below (don’t worry I will approve these ones).

I am soon to implement a small change to my posting style. As you (hopefully) know I spend a good portion of this blog experimenting with products, ideas and services. After all the only way to know if something works (or does not work) for sure, is by testing it out. However in my haste to answer so many questions at once I have ended up with a lot of open articles without conclusions. The problems include:

New articles with only half the content look unfinished and unprofessional
By the time I …