Though most people will tell you that "traffic is king and that's all you need to succeed online," it isn't quite the honest truth.
It is true that no business can succeed without traffic, but it isn't the quantity of traffic that matters but the quality. Paying for "Traffic" or "Hits" is basically useless if you are trying to promote something for a profit, whether you are selling umbrellas or trying to get signups in your mlm program.
The reason for that is because "Hits" are usually computer generated and there isn't a real person visiting your website, and "Paid-for-Traffic" is coming from people who either receive an incentive for clicking through to your site or because they were "redirected" to your site after clicking on someone else's link or your page simply "Popped Up" when they clicked on another link.
That kind of traffic is not targeted which means it is not coming from people who are interested in what your have to offer, so their visits are completely useless.
What every business needs is "Targeted Traffic". Targeted traffic are visitors who click through to your website because they are interested in what you have to offer. You would actually get more sales from 100 targeted visitors than you would from 1,000,000 paid-for-visits. So it's really quite obvious that it's not the quantity of traffic that will guarantee your success, but the quality.
If you do a search for terms about how to get traffic to your website, your search will return millions of websites that say they will send you traffic for a price, or want you to join their program for generating your own leads and traffic, but in my estimation more than 99% of them are just out to get your money. They will send hits but those hits are not coming from interested visitors and most of the time they won't even register on your own hits counter.
Google Analytics is an awesome program for tracking visits to your website and the most correct and reliable that I have ever used, but it won't track most of the traffic that you pay for because the hits are just computer generated and coming from the same IP address, or "redirects" which come from the same IP address. It's no different than someone sitting at their computer all day clicking on your link.
Unfortunately most people who try to make money on the internet will fail because they won't know how to get targeted traffic and will end up following the advice of all the sites out there who are shouting, "Buy Targeted Traffic Here!" They remind me of the
snake oil salesmen of the 19th century. They blast you with too-good-to-be-true cures until they sucker you into giving them your money, and then you find out that snake oil is nothing more than snake oil.
So what are the best ways to get REAL targeted traffic?
There are several very good ways and below are five of the best, but first let me tell you what NOT to do.
Things you SHOULD NOT do:
* Never buy leads, even if they're "Double Opt-In, Triple Opt-In or Phone Verified" * Never pay for "Guaranteed Visitors" * Never use "Safelists". * Never use "Ad Blasters" * Never rely on "Surf Sites" or "Traffic Exchanges"
Things you SHOULD do:
* Article Marketing * Ezine Advertising * Classified Advertising * Respond to forums with a signature link * Email follow up (very important)
For detailed information on how to use these very effective ways and more of generating targeted traffic to your website, visit:
Rodney has been marketing online since 1998 and is the webmaster and developer of several websites including www.planet-people-search.com and www.gdi-scam.com which has a top ranking in all the major search engines.
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