15 August 2026 5 min read
Star-Clicks is a cost-per-click advertising network. You pay when someone clicks through to your site, you choose which countries they come from, and you can start with a very small budget. This guide covers how it works and — just as importantly — what this kind of traffic is genuinely useful for.
The numbers
| Cost per click | $0.02 |
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| Minimum deposit to start | $5 |
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| Targeting | Choose your target countries |
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| Reporting | Live traffic report on your campaign |
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A $5 deposit is roughly 250 clicks. That is deliberately low: it is enough to test whether this channel does anything for your offer without committing real money to find out.
Setting up a campaign
- Create an advertiser account. Choose Advertiser rather than Publisher at sign-up.
- Add your website. Use the exact landing page you want visitors to arrive on, not just your homepage — sending people to a generic homepage is the most common reason campaigns underperform.
- Choose your target countries. More on why this matters below.
- Deposit from $5 and set your campaign live.
- Watch the live report and judge it against what you actually wanted to happen.
Country targeting is the setting that matters most
Traffic from a country you do not serve is money spent for nothing. If you ship only within Europe, or your service is English-only, restrict your targeting accordingly. Advertisers who leave targeting wide open and then conclude "the traffic was poor quality" have usually just bought visitors who were never able to become customers.
Before you spend anything: decide what a successful click looks like — a sign-up, an enquiry, a sale, time on page. Then check that number afterwards. A campaign without a defined outcome cannot be judged, only guessed at.
What this traffic is good for — and what it is not
We would rather set the expectation correctly than take a deposit from someone expecting the wrong thing.
It works reasonably well for
- Getting a new site seen when it has no audience yet.
- Cheap testing of a landing page, headline or offer, where you mainly need people arriving.
- Broad awareness campaigns where volume at low cost matters more than intent.
It does not work for
- Improving your Google ranking. Be clear on this: paid clicks do not improve search rankings. Google's ranking systems do not reward traffic volume, and buying traffic with the aim of influencing rankings is against their guidelines. If ranking is your goal, that is an SEO project, not an advertising one.
- High-intent purchase traffic. Someone searching Google for your exact product is further along than someone clicking an advertising link. Search advertising costs far more per click for precisely that reason. Judge us against our price, not against search intent.
- Reliable conversion volume for narrow, high-value products. If one sale needs a very specific buyer, cheap broad clicks are unlikely to be the efficient route.
Getting more from a small budget
- Send clicks to a relevant page, not your homepage.
- Make sure that page loads fast on mobile. Much of this traffic is mobile, and a slow page loses the visitor before they see anything.
- Say what you want in the first screenful. These visitors did not search for you and will not hunt for your call to action.
- Start at $5, measure, then decide. Do not scale a campaign you have not yet measured.
Try it with $5
Roughly 250 clicks, targeted to countries you choose, with a live report.
See advertiser details