Interesting post
Now, jennycards, your post as interesting as it is, is missing some points. One of them is that without ROI, there's no possible comparation, specially when you're mixing different types of traffic. On the other hand, traffic, as different as it can be, can be compared easily. Just take the amount of traffic you bought (no matter which kind), the CPM and the ROI and you've enough data to know what works better for you. You can add additional variables (we do) to measure different things, but this is not philosophy, it's pure maths: if I invest 60 bucks in Google traffic and get 150 in return and I invest 60 bucks in exit traffic and get 200, then things are more than clear. After all, I couldn't care less if the traffic has great CTR, or multiplies by 1000 or whatever. I just care about the relation between gain over investment. Simple as ABC, everything else is just blabbling, I don't buy traffic to say "traffic froma A is better than traffic from X". I buy it to make me money.
As for my experience on this, I never bought to some of these names, and now I see this stats, I won't touch them even with a 10 feet pole, so your data is very useful for me on that aspect. But I bought a lot of traffic to some of these names and some that you don't mention, and I've very similar figures. Personally, I think Ravo's fpctraffic is the best, not counting Google and sex.com. Sexzity and AST are fine if you filter their traffic heavily and divert it to a pool of options (which of course I won't tell
), not the best traffic but not worthless either. One of my partners is testing Trafficshop right now, waiting for feedback on it. I see you had pretty fair results with hits2biz, our experience was really bad, which leads me to another lost point: not all target pages will work the same. And that's when your stats are no fair for the traffic sellers, because a lot of people who reads your post prolly won't read further or take the time to research a little.
Anyway, all in all, very interesting post.
And some last words of advice: there are some few good traffic sellers. But be very careful when you buy traffic, specially from unknown people, it's an activity where scamming and cheating is the common rule