Your thoughts on TGP traffic

[RDude]

I've been buying bits of traffic here and there from Traffic Holder for All Gay Porn Blog. Most of what I get is TGP traffic. You know, redirected links and stuff. When that happens and a surfer is directed to a blog, is that good? I mean, perhaps they're looking for more galleries and TGPs.

I'm also linked up with blog directories of course and many other blogs. I've made more sales from those links than I have with the purchased traffic lol

So what do you think? Linking from a TGP to a blog is probably a bad idea maybe? Perhaps Traffic Holder is not supplying the kind of targeted traffic I'm looking for. It would seem that way.

What are your experiences with this kind of thing?

Thanks:D

[tombarr]

It is skimmed TGP traffic, i.e surfers that have landed on your page without actually wanting to. However, even though this happens, there will be a percentage that will click around, some will read, some will bookmark your site and a higher percentage will just close it in frustration.

Yes, this traffic is not as productive as SE traffic, direct linked traffic, etc., but it does have some benefit. With traffic holder, and a few others, you have the ability to choose the type of traffic you want. In the case of a blog, you might be better off buying clicked traffic from traffic brokers, and make sure you are not just buying skim only. Some brokers also have ways in which you can choose which websites you will take traffic from, thus you can more finely tune the incoming traffic.

[basschick]

all skimmed tgp traffic is not alike.

consider this example:

if you have a bear blog, buying traffic that clicked a link that said "bear gallery" or "bear pics" is going to do better for you than buying traffic that clicked a link that says "gay gallery" or "gay pics" and it might be even worse quality on that bear site if guys are clicking links that say "twink pics". also cheapest tgp traffic might be skimmed from all niches, and you may end up with traffic that clicked straight or shemale links. for the most part, the same applies to thumb preview tgps/mgps.

but if you know what you're doing with the traffic, it can be pretty good stuff.

[marcjacob]

all skimmed tgp traffic is not alike.

consider this example:

if you have a bear blog, buying traffic that clicked a link that said "bear gallery" or "bear pics" is going to do better for you than buying traffic that clicked a link that says "gay gallery" or "gay pics" and it might be even worse quality on that bear site if guys are clicking links that say "twink pics". also cheapest tgp traffic might be skimmed from all niches, and you may end up with traffic that clicked straight or shemale links. for the most part, the same applies to thumb preview tgps/mgps.

but if you know what you're doing with the traffic, it can be pretty good stuff.

Basschick, would you say that the multi niche skimmed traffic is only good to send to multi niche sites then? Otherwise like you said, youll get twink surfers seeing bears and make no sales at all :bang:

[tombarr]

Basschick, would you say that the multi niche skimmed traffic is only good to send to multi niche sites then? Otherwise like you said, youll get twink surfers seeing bears and make no sales at all :bang:

Even with multi niched skimmed traffic you are going to have people coming from "bear" category pages and possibly landing on "twink" category pages. The skim occurs no matter what category you are in on the originating site, and the trade script usually redirects you on the default page or front page of the site receiving the benefit of the trade. So if you happened to attempt to click on a gallery on a bear page in the originating site and got skimmed to a trading partner's site, that trading partner's site might very well have their landing category as twinks and thus you would end up with the same thing happening.

[tombarr]

Most gay tgp skimmed traffic sources come from gay general multi cat sites, or twink sites and the only targeting you can really do is perhaps choose which domains they come from. There just aren't that many gay niches selling traffic to traffic brokers and as a result we end up with traffic from larger multi cat gay sites or twink sites.

I believe the original question was whether purchased tgp skim traffic would be effective on a blog or whether that traffic was just looking for more gallery or tgp traffic.

As it is tgp skimmed traffic, they were "looking" for the gallery they clicked on when they started at the original site and were not looking to be redirected off to an entirely different site. As such, the effectiveness of that traffic is rededuced, and even measured on many trading partner sites by it's productivity, i.e. how many times a surfer that was redirected to the landing site clicked on a gallery once they got there.

My point remains the same. If the site (the blog) they land on appeals to them, a percentage will click around, maybe read some, and maybe bookmark the site. To say skimmed tgp traffic is wasted on blogs would be an overstatement as it is going to have some positive effect. Now, whether it is more effective on blogs than on tgp's or vice versa, I don't think we can generally say without measuring it.

You might want to consider adding the free arrow trader script on the blog domain (using the free version of the script) and measure the productivity of this inbound traffic to see how effective it really is on your site. You can do this by looking at your server stats, or your counter stats and seeing the referring domains. Those that are tgp referring domains are likely the ones coming from your traffic buy. Enter them in as passive trades in the free trading script. You will then see the productivity of this traffic and how much they are actually clicking around on your site. Then you will at least have a feel for how effective the purchased traffic is. Ive never done this on any type of site other than a tgp, but in theory it should work. I think Basschick likely could answer to that better than I with her TGP experience.

But overall, I would say that any TGP traffic coming to a blog, is going to be less effective and take more traffic to make the same amount of sales from other types of traffic from other types of inbound links. If current traffic brokers offered more gay niche targeted traffic to buy, then matching the purchased traffic niche with the landing site niche would definately yield better results. :)

[basschick]

Marcjacob, it depends but i'd say mostly yes. on the other hand, it might be handy for a variety of types of such sites -

tom, bought traffic from the cheapest skimmed traffic sometimes comes from ALL categories, not one category.

[tombarr]

Marcjacob, it depends but i'd say mostly yes. on the other hand, it might be handy for a variety of types of such sites -

tom, bought traffic from the cheapest skimmed traffic sometimes comes from ALL categories, not one category.

I know, that was my point. It was your example of buying bear traffic above that got me off into dicussing available niche traffic. I am very well aware that bought traffic comes from ALL category sites. However, you can, as you know, on some brokers, buy from specific domains, and thus limit your traffic to that niche. At this time, I believe traffic holder only has one black gay site selling traffic to it, and the rest are general gay multi cats or twink sites.

[basschick]

as long as you don't pay rock bottom, you can choose your niche - although a lot of str8 sites offer only "gay" for us. i wish buygaytraffic had more traffic as i do well with it.