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Plugrush · 03-29-2012, 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by mfucker

Hello dear friends from GoFuckyourself:
We are still very fresh and new in this business to be honest and the traffic behavior wasn't like we expected:

We opened our first website around 1 month ago (pornoreaver) and we start daily updating mostly with amateur / homemade pictures.
After some days updating and enough content in our website we decided to start some traffic campaigns with Plugrush.com, created an user and started 2 different campaigns:

Blind Traffic from Germany
Blind Traffic from USA and UK.

We used only $20 dollars because our goal was to learn how the traffic was working before investing more money.
As you can see here: img715.imageshack.us/img715/9592/001bw.png
Everything worked as expected until the traffic stop coming, we didn't expect to make any profit or recover the money invested in advertisement either.

But we expected that some users would come back after ending the plugrush campaign. There was a little bit more than 3,000 visits from both campaings during 5 days:

As you can see here: img829.imageshack.us/img829/2204/002dg.png
And here: img525.imageshack.us/img525/298/003ae.png

So the situation is that after the campaigns ended, the traffic went down again to virtually zero. Instead of that, we were expecting some users to return into the site, and repeat this process until many users would come back daily without the need of the external advertisement.
I'm not sure if there's another way to get started to be honest...

As you can see here: img11.imageshack.us/img11/9476/004af.png

Therefore, at this moment we are not really sure what to do, it seems like we were wrong about how the traffic works. Shall we opt for Plug traffic instead of Blind traffic?
Any idea or recommendation will be taken and seriously appreciated.

We wouldn't mind to provide access to the google analytics account or plugrush to anyone with some experience either if you want more details.

Thanks a lot!
mfucker

Blind traffic is probably one of the worst types of traffic you can purchase for a website to actually grow it and get return users. There are a LOT of variables in this though, such as your website layout, for example, is a huge factor. Personally if I was trying to grow a website I would not purchase blind traffic, I would have gone with Plug Traffic because it's the user clicking on the thumbnail because they like what they see...With blind traffic, they are clicking on a random generated thumbnail and subject/title and when landing on your site, more than likely they are getting something totally different.

When you create a campaign for "Plug" traffic, you can choose to receive traffic from ONLY amateur related websites like yours, thus making the traffic that much more targeted. I would also monitor the traffic more closely in Google Analytics, spread the traffic out as much as you can per hour for as long as you can, then use Analytics to see what sites are sending you traffic that returns like you want, and block the sites that aren't inside of Plugrush. It's a decent amount of work but it's worth it.