It’s getting a little bit difficult in driving traffic to your website, be it for advertisement case or just to have readers becoming a fan of your writings. We have to endlessly sign and insert our websites in all the blog directories; new and old directories. It’s a tedious job but its rewarding when I see my monthly statement from PayPal.

The cycle of driving traffic to your website doesn’t end there. We have to constantly promote our website by including our links in all our forums that we are in, emails and comments that we leave, hoping their curiosity will drive them to our site. But in some cases, rare cases, when I am too lazy to promote my website, I’d just indulge in advertising my website in one of those PTC or PPC advertising campaigns.

Some of the advertising rates are very good while some can get very expensive. However just because we paid for our clicks and visits doesn’t really guarantee our contents being read since these clickers are just interested in getting extra cash from PTC and PPC as they are only paid 1cent for each click. So in order to ensure that I get my unique visitors and hopefully get them to read whatever is written, I would ensure a minimum of 15sec timer be included in my PTC and PPC advertising campaign. This is also to ensure that my system doesn’t crash down on me when all 10,000 clicks are being processed within the hour.

If you are lucky, make sure to get a campaign that you can dictate how many visits and clicks can be processed within each day, so that Google doesn’t sniff you out. Google is currently sniffing out those that are using PTC and PPC and link exchange to drive traffic and increase their PR.

Luckily I’m still in their good books. Hopefully they won’t sniff me out, I’d hate to see my monthly income being dragged down to the gutters by them again. One time is enough to make me extra cautious. (I’m still having a grudge on them for blacklisting my old site and zapping my PR3 site to PR0.. Grrr..)

The PTC and PPC ad campaigns cost can differ, depending on the targeted countries, timer and other specifications. I usually would search for anything that cost below my budget of USD7.00 for 10,000 clicks. USD7.00 for 10,000 unique visitors?!! It’s not impossible my dears, what you need is just Google search engine and constantly pick and choose of advertisers.

You want to pay for the cheapest and the best in town, then you have to survey around for it. You’d be surprise that the best sometimes are listed in the 15th to 20th pages of Google Search Engine. I’ve done it and it works like a charm. The best deal I’ve ever gotten was USD1.50 for 10,000 clicks and I received around 300 to 500 visits from the advertising website per week. As long as it doesn’t crash my website and get my weekly dosage of readers, I’m fine with it.

I used to pay USD8.00 for 500 unique visitors but ever since everything became expensive and my online income wasn’t as impressive as the previous years, I’ve decided to get a better deal. If anyone wishes to know what advertisers I’m using, feel free to contact me.