What is Traffic generator?
Here we will explain what the Traffic Generator is and how it could work. In addition all possible solutions and it’s prices will be considered. So, let’s move?!
What is it?
Mainly Website traffic generator can boost your site traffic. Usually (but not always) it is kind of bot traffic. So you can get a lot of new visitors to your website does not matter whether it is media, small business or Enterprise. Thus it pump your rating and make your site more known as you get more rating, more trust and more visitors.
How can it help?
The benefits from using traffic generator could make your site and business looks better for users, for media buyers if you sell advertising, another appliance of web traffic generators could be improving your user’s behavior, reduce bounce rate, returning rate, session time, completing some easy goals like entering contacts or checkout page etc.
So main cases for website traffic generators in general:
- Sell advertising
- Sell your site
- Increase site trust
- Increase Alexa
- Improve your user’s behavior
- Improve user’s demography
- Increase site rating in other web counters
- And any other purposes
What kind of generators exist?
There are some different kinds of website traffic generators:
- Local based (that work from your PC)
- Web based own managed (need manual setup of web server and setting up specialized software)
- Web based SaaS (Outsource)
What is the difference between them?
Local based traffic generating software – is a special tool that you need to buy or to create with any of suitable program language and set it working from your personal computer, so it looks easy to start to generate a lot of traffic from your IP address to your website. Looks good and cheap solutions, usually it is very cheap.
Another variant of website traffic bots could be set up on a third party server. So mainly it is kind of more complex tool cause first of all you need to get ready to go server with the proper OS, the you need a specialized software like in #1 and then set it up on the web server and run it to work, so on server it is possible to make it work 24/7. From the other side it took a lot of time and money. Firstly we need to choose a server provider, than research the right operating system for it, then take a customized setup for the software, and only then start to setting it up. It could take from 1-2 days to few weeks, depends from qualification and free time. And only after that you can start with installing your website traffic bot software that also takes take and as well some other issues or bugs can occur if server or OS is wrong and incompatible with the chosen software. In this case I would be needed to start from beginning: change server type and configuration, then adapt OS and it’s version, set the new chosen configuration up and only then start with our traffic generation software. After software installation we need to set it up and configure soft and that’s it should work. It looks very expensive and time consuming but could be extremely effective for specific needs.
The last outsource variant we will consider is king of outsourcing in other words SaaS. The main benefits that often the kind of traffic generating software are ready to start just from the box with only several clicks. From the other side it could be more expensive that to do everything manually, but what the heck, usually it is much easier to buy something ready than to do in yourself. For instance we buy potato in the Walmart (ok, ok, most of us) instead of growing it during the whole year spending much time and healing it from diseases as bugs for server solution for example. Thus such solutions are the easiest to start you just need to set desired configuration, visitors speed, bounce rate, session duration, desired GEOs, referrals etc. Isn’t it a miracle?)
Can you do it yourself?
Now let’s discuss what of this methods could be done by yourself.
Let’s start with the first one: So mainly you can write a code, compilate it, test it and just run a code. The complexity would be dependent on how many setting and configurations you would like to make possible.
The second one website traffic generator could also launched by yourself, the algorithm is more or less likely as a previous one. So mainly you need to buy a server and set It locally in your home – it is a bad variant, he-he…the better one to buy or to rent server on hosting or even what is easier buy cloud hosting. So everything is done by yourself. Then you will also need to code software for chosen server and OS. After that install OS then your software, configure it manually and it also should work. The second one variant is more complicated but gives you more opportunities for configurations and uptime.
The third variant could not be done yourself, but it is the fastest way to start and get the best configuration opportunities.
How much could it cost?
Speaking about cost of setting up, the objective cost for costs are different. The local based traffic bot generator could be run without spending even $1. On the other hand if you are not a programmer you need to buy software or make an order to programmer that would not be so cheap. Approximate if you use SaaS it will cost $1-$5.
Server-based web traffic generator would be more expensive, cause in the normal case in addition to costs in the previous point you also need to rent a server. Not so much, but more expensive in any case. The approximate cost is $5-$10 for the server and $1-$5 for software.
The total web based software costs can start from $5. Sounds cheap but here you will have much less visits probably.
So any of this solution’s costs could be raised and depends on the needs.
