Has anyone ever bought traffic for their site?

[Wales]

I was just curious if anyone here has and any recommendations? Also how does it all work? You buy 25k worth of hits they visit your website 25k times? How long do they stay on? I'm assuming they are bots and just hit your site at certain times.

[piersk]

What on earth would be the point?

[Wales]

For ranking up?

[piersk]

Ranking up what? Google? Alexa? What would that get you? Surely you want people to use your product. I could create a blank html page and then get up the ranks of alexa. But what would that achieve?

[NogDog]

My guess would be to get advertisement revenue under false pretenses, at best a shady business practice and at worst a violation of the contractual agreements with the advertisers which possibly could even be criminal fraud. Thus I am closing this thread (subject to being convinced otherwise).