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A webmaster worries about his website's link popularity because he wants to do better in the search engines. Doing "better" means ranking high in the listing and thus getting more clicks or website visitors.Well, another way to increase his traffic and visitors quickly is to buy it, via a traffic building service.

We recently worked with Joseph Ross of Direct Hits and started our own mini-traffic campaign to learn more about his services and how these traffic building programs work. We must say, that we were quite please with the traffic we got and how easy it was to get started.

Instead of the usual review, we decided to do a Q&A with Joe instead.

Linking101: Joe, could you explain your service in a few sentances?
Joe: We manage a network of thousands of sites which display pop-unders on them. Using this network we are able to display your site as a pop-under and target this traffic to specific categories. We are also able to provide banner advertising and email advertising to meet your needs.

Linking101: How effect are pop-unders in general?
Joe: Some sites have great success with pop-unders and repurchase frequently, others do not. People have to keep in mind that just because you have traffic to your site doesn't guarantee success.

Think of the pop-unders that have caught your eye, what makes them appealing. Many appealing business opportunities and software have had great campaigns. The sites that do not generally succeed which I see a lot of lately are the generic shopping sites that some companies provide. These generally will never be successful with any type of marketing however people like to buy website traffic as an easy solution. Also for the larger advertisers pop-under advertising is probably the best way to brand your company or product. Just think of the x10 camera, everyone knows what it is and they're advertising campaigns were predominately pop-under.

Linking101: Why should webmasters use you vs. other companies?
Joe: One reason is options. We provide targeted traffic, adult traffic, casino traffic and traffic that allows pop-unders. Our customer service is a high priority and we provide an honest review of your site. If you ask us to look over your site before purchasing we give you our honest opinion of whether we think your site could have success with pop-under advertising.

Linking101: How much does your service cost?
Joe: Depending on the type of product that interests you such as targeted, bulk, adult, or casino traffic and whether we allow a pop-under or not, we also offer email advertising and banner advertising as well. Encourage your readers to challenge myself or any site they go to to provide a better price than what is listed (obviously it makes my life better if they didn't but honsetly they should). My goal is to make your campaign successful, if in order to be profitable you need our 100k targeted traffic price to be $15 less then tell me and I will see what I can do.

Linking101: How can a customer track their traffic/results?
Joe: We provide you a login to our traffic monitoring server where you will have full access to traffic received and amount remaining. You also have the ability freeze your campaign whenever you need to.

Linking101: Any restrictions to your service?
Joe: The site (or web page) we send traffic to cannot contain any pop-unders or browser altering scripts (i.e. resize the window, add a bookmark, etc). When a user clicks a link on your page it can contain whatever you want it to though. Finally, if a legal site is switched with an illegal one during the campaign your campaign will be canceled with no refund.

Linking101: I am trying to figure out which web page on my website you should use to direct the pop-under to; should I pick a page inside my website or my index page (with popup disabled) or should I create a special page just for this pop-under?
Joe: Most of my customers don't bother but the answer is absolutely you should create a new page. When your site pops up on another site it should be a page that is eye catching and interesting, most people's main web pages are not. You only have a couple of seconds to sell your site to someone before they close the page down. Again think of x10, they don't pop-under their homepage, rather they use an enticing ad that you will remember (I guarantee you know what the x10 ads look like by memory).

Linking101: How long will this traffic program last? Or how do you measure what you do?
Joe: We are able to control the speed of a campaign by assigning it a weight from 1-10, usually we put the larger orders at a heavier weight. Campaigns tend to range from 2 - 10 days. It can vary due to demand, for example this is the heaviest time of year for us (November 02) and sometimes things slow down. Also we cannot serve as much targeted traffic as we can less quality traffic. However we usually have the capacity to do 50,000 targeted per day and 250k bulk uniques per campaign.

Linking101: Joe is there anything else you would like to tell our readers?
Joe: I really what this article to inform people. Making money on the internet is not easy, there is no get rich quick scheme that works, its all about research, and trial and error. If you expect to make money you have to do work. Contact us before purchasing, ask what can be done to make a campaign more successful.

We pride ourselves on not only being honest but professional internet marketers. What that means is we can provide a wealth of knowledge. Even if I don't think a pop-under campaign is right for you, I may have some other suggestions on how to advertise on the net.

We must say that working and talking with Joe and having my own traffic campaign really opened our eyes. To the left is what our overall visitors looked like before and during our traffic building campaign.

Linking101's pop-under campaign served us 10,000 uniques and which took between 25,000 and 35,000 impressions to achieve that. From the statistics, we saw that 5000+ visitors clicked through from the special traffic page we created into Linking101. The campaign lasted 7 days.

So if you are looking to increase your traffic quickly, easily, and affordably, contact Joe Ross at Direct Hits today. If you say you read about his services, here at Linking101, you get a 10% discount! In addition to providing traffic, Joe can help you with your website promotions. We definitely recommend their services.

(Linking101 would like to thank Joe for this time and providing us with quality traffic for this review.)

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