Okay. First and foremost Ill warn you ahead of time - this will be long lol.

Second off - major rule when it comes to Marketing or traffic, do not EVER use these traffic sites. Some of them are good, most are not. The thing about these traffic sites is that they are never really going to do what they say they are going to do. And if they do by chance send 10,000 real people (not bots) to your site? All its going to do is rack up your hosting and bandwidth bill. These are "people" that will have no real interest in your website or your specific niche. These are usually PTR people that are getting PAID 1cent or whatever amount to visit your site. Chances are they will not actually care what your site is about, what you offer or who you are. So just don't do it. Save your money for something else such as:

PPC: Pay per click (PPC) is an Internet advertising model used on websites, in which advertisers pay their host only when their ad is clicked. With search engines, advertisers typically bid on keyword phrases relevant to their target market. Content sites commonly charge a fixed price per click rather than use a bidding system. These are the ads you see on Google when you do a search. People WILL not get paid to click these ads, however, they will most likely be interested in what you are selling - these are semi targeted leads.

Article Marketing: This is what I do for a living and have become very successful because its VERY helpful in getting not only visitors TO your site, but getting targeted visitors. If that weren't enough the articles also generate SERPs. A SERP is a Search Engine Result Page - its the placement of where your site is located on the engines. If your SERPs are good, you will be able to be on the first few pages of the engines. The first few pages, while they might obviously seem like the best place to be, the first few pages or the first page of the engines (yahoo, google, ask) are visited by people that search for your keywords, that assume that "wow this person is on the first page of the engines, they MUST be a good business or site". While this isn't always true, some sites on the first page ... suck. Its still the thought that counts when it comes to people.

Blogs: Since your site is a blog, the amount of visitors you are receiving are most likely through spyders and crawls done by the engines. Blogs are nice, but there are also a few rules you should be following. For example, don't overcloud your site with ads. Don't have an RSS feed, feeding unoriginal content on to the blog. Make sure you have good grammar, good spelling, and you actually make sense. Be sure to optimize your blog and use GOOD keywords. Also, make sure that (where possible) you fill out your meta tags and make sure you have no broken links. If you have any of the above negatives, Google and the other engines will be less likely to crawl your page.

Here is also an article I wrote about the best ways to get web presence - most of which I already included.

Hopefully that helps you out a little bit more when it comes to SERPs, traffic, optimization, etc. :o)

NO, its a horrible idea to pay for SEO when you can do it your self.

Your main focus should be on CONTENT and not SEO. If you write great content then the crawlers will pick up your site and it will improve in ranks automatically.

None the less, here are some great tips on SEO by none other then @robbrown

http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-seo-your-website

Rob also has an excellent video on his How-To page that I am linking to here.

You are probably not going to find any kind of decent SEO for $20-$30. An exception might be if you hired a local high school student on the side who wanted some quick cash and actually knew something about the subject.

So... I really don't recommend it.

Any company that offers you a number of visitors should send up red flags. I recommend closing your wallet, hanging on to your credit card and running the other way.

A visit means your site registered as coming up on someone's computer.... it may not have even fully loaded before being closed.

The only thing worse in my mind is companies that offer a number of "hits" to your website... don't even get me started on that! X|

ineedhits.com has been around for a number of years. They were really popular when it was more difficult to get into the search engines and get listed at all... that was before and during the early days of Google.

I used a couple of their services about 6 years ago... I didn't see any noticeable difference that could be attributed to them.

All that being said... you can do your own SEO. Focus on your content, make a post every so often that uses your main keywords for the site, and then advertise the blog.

Check your settings... is pinging turned on or disabled? Who are you pinging? There is such a thing as too much pinging.

But I'd keep the $20 to myself if I were you.
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I don't think this cheap crap is what you're looking for. Let me suggest a few things for you. First, make sure you are on all the good blog roles. Second, add content regularly. Third, learn how to use keyword density to improve rank of particular phrases. You can also go to like minded sites and get links. Do NOT go to just any old site and ask for links.

Try forums that are also like minded. Don't focus on hits right away because natural SEO works almost forever. The stuff you're referring to is very short lived. Seriously. You also need to spiderweb your online presence.

All hits are not created equal. 1,000 hits for $10 sounds like a deal, but it's probably not. I don't know about this company specifically, but a lot of these companies just run pop-up windows over sites you probably won't find helpful: web games, pornography, etc.

It's better to focus on the content of your blog, try to put up something catchy and original. Just one great article that gets DIGGed or Stumbled can give you a big boost in your regular readership.

Good SEO can only be achieved when all the available methods and tools are deployed in tandem. It is important that all of these tools help catapult the website in search result ranks.

Along with content of the website, meta tags, page description and link building also have equal importance. For a content based website like the one you've, I read, article submission of third party websites can be a potent tool to get good search results on Google, Yahoo or any other search engine. I've read on many tools available for SEO and I'd suggest that you can at least start with article submission services.

You can read in details how SEO works: http://seo-services-experts.com/article_submission.htm

Hope this info helps.

dont use ineedhits its a total scam.. look them up on BBB they have records up the wazoo..

Mike !

I wouldn't do it. Sounds like a scam to me where they'll spam your page with keywords to the point where it may choke the unique content out, or they may flood your page with visitors once and then nothing.

Speak to our SEO Queen, @smartweb.

Yes, it is okay to pay for SEO since it is really worth the pay if you want to earn more money through your websites.