How many times have you seen a catchy headline that claimed to give you “tons of guaranteed targeted traffic?”

Since web traffic is a priceless commodity to online business owners — like any business there are tons of honest providers and mingled within them are the scumbags that will take you for anything they can get.

I have to admit, that I was taken down the scumbag path when I first got started.  It seems like I was taken for every web traffic scam there is.  It was overwhelmingly frustrating, when I had so little money, to find out I had purchased yet another scum sucking rip off.

The bulk traffic providers are the worse!  It is extremely difficult to tell the real traffic from the thieves.  Here’s what some of them do:

“We’ll get you to the top of the search engines overnight!”

Have you heard that claim or something along that lines?  Did you see it enough that you started believe it, then you bought it?

I did.  More than once.  How stupid am I ?

You don’t have to answer that, but you’re welcome to below.  I had a miserable time sorting the bogus claims from reality.

Why?  Well like just about everyone else, and maybe even you, I started without knowing a thing about what I was doing.  I had no money, no credit, no home, and no knowledge.

Have you experienced the great pay per click lie?

Do you know what I’m talking about?  I think you do.  Or if you’re lucky, you haven’t been sucked into it yet.

Maybe you’re thinking that I’m going to tell you that PPC can’t work, and it’s only for the big dogs.  Well that’s not the case.

PPC or pay per click does work, but it is definitely not the place for you to jump into if you have no experience working with paid traffic sources.  PPC is something you want to do once you start gaining some profits in are ready to really massively increase online traffic with tons of buyers as your profits grow from your initial efforts.

But you must learn how to do it correctly.

You know, so many “gurus” told me just make a blog and the targeted traffic will come.  I don’t mean no name, nobody heard of them gurus.  I’m talking about real pros.

Then they told me, just get some content up.  Anything is better than nothing.  Have you heard that?

Then what happened on your blog?

I bet I know the answer.  It’s nothing!  No one came to visit.  No one left any comments. You made zero sales!

I’m certain many of you have experienced this.  I know I did, and if you didn’t… well you are one of the lucky ones.

Early in my attempts to create a successful online business, one of the many sites I came across first were the so called “turn-key” businesses.  They have real “reach out and grab you” headlines like…

“Do You Want Results Like This Just By Getting a FREE Website?”

Then, of course, there are plenty of testimonials saying how great the results were.  Some of these sites are offered by really well known marketers.  Their testimonials are real, but you just don’t know the context, or experience of the people giving the testimonials.