Our Alien Traffic Review After Ordering With Them

As part of our ongoing series to review some of the most popular website traffic providers, we recently purchased an Alien Traffic website traffic service. Here is our Alien Traffic review (alientraffic.com)

As always, recommend readers read our full methodology to understand how we rate service providers. Below, we’ll review how we tested Alien Traffic’s service, which plans we picked and go through our ratings on Pricing, Reliability, and Quality.

Alien Traffic Review

Alien Traffic primarily offers website traffic services by using pop-under ads, as opposed to other methods like expired domains, redirects, or other grey methods. Pop-under ads are basically pop-ups but are hidden under another website. They work like the following: A visitor opens a poker betting website by clicking on a link. That link opens the poker betting website, but also a Alien Traffic customer website underneath it, meaning two windows are opened. When the visitor eventually closes the poker betting website, they’ll see the Alien Traffic website (in the form of a pop-under ad), and this gets counted as a visitor.

For the purpose of this test, we used a e-commerce website with an email opt-in form. This allows us to test on-page metrics like bounce rate, but also conversion rates for email signs-up, and purchases.

Alien Traffic Prices

We found the prices for Alien Traffic to be very expensive. To be clear, we used one time campaigns and did not count the 5% discount they provide when you order a monthly plan with them.

For the one time purchase, a traffic plan starts at $40 for 5,000 visitors and scale to $500 for 200,000 visitors. Meaning their range is anywhere from $0.8 / 1000 visitors, to $0.4/ 1000 visitors. This is one the more expensive and and comparable from purchasing from more reputable ad networks like Google Display Network, Media.net, or Outbrain, where you can essentially get very comparable cost per thousand pricing but much higher quality traffic in the form of display ads as opposed to pop-unders.

So on a pricing perspective, we were disappointed and found it to be more expensive than the vast majority of the website traffic providers we reviewed. We rated their pricing as 1/5.

Alien Traffic Reliability

We found their reliability to be much better than pricing. Traffic started within a day of placing the order and we didn’t experience any issues. For this test, we ordered their cheapest plan at $40 for 5,000 visitors.

On the reliability point, it should be noted that prior to ordering, it is not clear how quickly our traffic will be delivered. We didn’t know if we should expect all 5,000 visitors in one day or through a specific duration.

Well, we found out through messaging their support and watching our traffic campaign with Alien Traffic. It turns out that they deliver it within a 30 day window, however it may be fully delivered sooner than 30 days. This means if you ordered 200,000 visitors, it will take the full 30 days for you to receive all your traffic (spread out evenly), whereas we ordered 5,000 visitors, so we receive all the traffic we bought much more quickly.

For some prospective customers, this is a bad thing because it makes traffic less predictable. We generally recommend following a even distribution of visitors. In fact, this is an industry norm for those who has used Google Adwords for Facebook Ads, nearly everyone generally sets a daily traffic (or budget), which results in some predictable traffic results. So we found the unpredictability of Alien Traffic’s services as a turnoff.

At the end, we elected to give Alien Traffic a 3/5 for reliability primarily because of decent support to our emails, quick traffic start time, however somewhat disappointing predictability in the delivery of results.

Alien Traffic Quality

Lastly we’ll review alientraffic.com’s traffic quality. We generally gauge quality by determining how well customers can target their audience, what the bounce rate/visitor duration look like, and ultimately, conversion rates.

We’ll skip the niceties and say that we were disappointed in all three fronts. Customers can expect to see a meaningful drop in bounce rates, as we did when we ran out test campaign using Alien Traffic’s review campaign. This is mainly because they drive most of their traffic using pop-under ads, which naturally provides lower bounce rates.

Secondly, we were disappointed in their targeting ability. There are no options to choose to receive only U.S. based visitors, nor choosing visitors who are interested in our specific website. In fact, Alien traffic has no targeting ability at all. When ordering, we were only allowed to select how much traffic we want to buy with no options for niche, topic, keywords, or location.

Lastly, we received no email sign-up and no sales. However, we will urge modest optimism because in testing other traffic providers, we have seen that pop under ads do work for some landing pages. So we’re hopeful that customers who choose their larger plans may receive email sign ups or sales. Overall we feel their quality is a 2/5.

Conclusion

In the end, non of us felt that Alien Traffic was really worth it for the price we paid and the traffic we received. We could have very easily paid a little more for display ads and had the full targeting capabilities of a larger ad network instead. We believe Alien Traffic’s service is a solid 2 out of 5, the saving grace being that we do have believe pop under ads do work for some cases, it’s just very difficult to justify when there are much cheaper traffic providers out there.

Anyways, we hope this has been helpful for Alien Traffic’s prospective customers. We recommend checking out our rating of website traffic providers make an informed decision when selecting a provider.