Hello everyone,
I've been looking at your forum for a while and after seeing this thread I thought I should join...
...targeted traffic...well I used to own 2 target web traffic sites, its how I started off on the net. We made sure that we only used domains related to the websites we were promoting, so we would use a hosting domain to redirect hosting traffic to a site. We didn't use popups or popunders, but redirected the domain to the website we were promoting. The domains we used were already in search engines so people looking for hosting would click on the link in the search engine and be redirected to your site. So we tried to avoid spamming.
However, this didn't give any great brand awareness, users redirected to your site were expecting to see another site, and back then search engines didn't crawl as frequently so your site information wasn't displayed in the search engine. Having said that, we offered one of the best services that "Targeted & Untargeted Traffic" sites deliver, so even though we offered the best services there were still some major weakenesses.
I'd also like to point out that we were possibly exceptions to the rule as most targeted traffic sites use popups/popunders, or they may even use dirty scripts that give you fake traffic!
Targeted Traffic Is Definately Not Good For Hosting! The only thing it is really any good for is delivering a large amount of hits to an affiliate program that pays per visitor you deliver. We could sell traffic at $0.001 per visitor and some programs would pay $0.1 per visitor!
Apart from that this type of traffic is pretty useless unless your just trying to boost your alexa ranking. We made money from selling this type of traffic as we put a positive spin on it and never mentioned the negatives unless someone asked. I left the dark side a long time ago and turned my back on targeted traffic. If you want real targeted traffic I would recommend you submit to directories, use ppc engines (7search is good) + adwords/overture (stay away from kanoodle!!!). You might even want to get a search engine optimization company to work on your site and get it a high ranking for your targeted keywords in search engines. You could also try to target a niche. This is the only real useful targeted traffic on the net. You might also want to try online/offline promotion in your local area, again that would be targeted.
Take my advice, I used to deliver good targeted traffic, and even our traffic was pretty useless, most target traffic services are diabolical, definately stay away.