[Admin]

Now that you have your website, you will be greatly involved in building traffic to it. I am sure that you will be making use of the paid and free techniques to increase the traffic to your website. You would have no doubt come across all the websites that stated ‘Website Traffic Guaranteed’ or ‘the best strategy to increase traffic to your website’! But have you thought about what is actually guaranteed and what you would benefit from that?

Have you thought what guaranteed website traffic means? Or what is it that you can expect from such guarantees? Well, I shall tell you what that means. When websites state ‘website traffic guaranteed’ they mean to say that you can expect a particular quantity of web traffic to your website when you pay or sign up with them! If this is not achievable, then you can be assured to get back your money or you can stop availing their services without having to pay any back-out penalty.

The guaranteed website traffic service providers state that they will be able to generate a targeted amount of traffic to your website in a given duration. They also state that they would use the latest technology in generating traffic to your website. If generating traffic to websites was so easy, then why will different websites have different ranks on the search engine listings?

Each webmaster can easily sign up with a web traffic generating service and get the maximum desired amount of traffic to their website! Does that put an end to the problem of increasing traffic to your website? Does getting thousands of website visitors or maximum number of clicks or more page views define increased traffic to your website? Give this a thought… 100 website visitors per day with 3 successful sales and 1000 website visitors for the same period with no sales. Which would you prefer? I would definitely pick the former! The only guaranteed website traffic is the traffic that guarantee sales. But no such service can guarantee you sales. They only lead people to your website. The sale that happens next is entirely dependent on your website and your sales strategy!

I strongly believe that a profitable sale can be made from targeted traffic that you have earned from your own efforts. This is because, once you set out to earn traffic to your website, you will know where to start and what category of audience to target. You will be seeking targeted visitors. The online marketing strategy you use to increase the traffic to your website is completely dependent on the success of your online business that is a result of your experience in the field and your ongoing relationship with your customers. The core principle of online business marketing is generating targeted website traffic.

Converting website traffic into sales determines the profit you have made through your online business. If you concentrate only on generating untargeted traffic to your site, you will lose out on your business, and if you do not spend time in increasing targeted traffic to your website, you will lose out the opportunity to attract buyers. Hence it is very essential that devote much more time to getting targeted traffic. That is you generating the right traffic to your website that will more than likely guarantee sales for your online business.

Get involved in forums where people discuss products and services. Observe, learn and promote your company in these places, in a subtle manner though. Start sharing valuable information with internet users via blogs. The more you contribute to knowledge sharing, the more you are perceived to be a subject matter expert and the more faith they will have in your products or services.

[Jim Gillum]

On every forum I visit, someone always asks about guaranteed traffic....

If you get 1000 cat owners to your site...you will probably not sell any dog food...
Yet some folks try to justify using the paid source....

I would advocate massive random traffic, for free, will little effort, directed to a special quick shot squeeze page, as an attempt to grab a sale or two......

(Let me qualify that...I am retired and have a lot of time to experiment [play around on the net].....mainly out of curiosity)

For someone really trying ...you are on point......targeted can mean money....

[zoomsan]

I think this is good advice.. I've also heard affiliate traffic called "warm" traffic (of course which converts higher) and then PPC traffic or when someone FIRST hears of you as "cold" traffic.. I think its important also to keep track of the conversion percentages on both.

[imarketer]

Targetted traffic for those who do not understand is simply traffic that came to your website for the main purpose of what your website is made for. If your selling hats, and the person that found your website looking or hats comes, then you are more commonly are going to get a sale. But if someone that is looking for boots comes, then it is just traffic that means nothing, but looks good for visitor count.

[stevenpny]

Hi all, Just joined

Traffic is one of my favorite topics. I have tried some traffic generation methods and I agree with the OP that generally they are not worth it.

As a former PPC - CPA person I know exactly what target traffic is, as I was paying for it and I needed it to convert. Since I was able to control the ads and the keywords I was only buying targeted traffic (I am sure that there was a number that was untargeted).

A book I am reading is called the "The Long Tail" by Chris Anderson, it came out in 2006. We all know about long tail keywords but this book will open your eyes to many a case study on what people are buying and the value that was found in company databases selling products. I am only 20% through it but it is a fascinating read IMO.

The general premise is that there are no more best sellers the money is in the sub-niches...

I would like to see more tactics on SEO targeted traffic, however in another post I will share some ideas on that myself...just running out of time.

[Admin]

Hi Steven,

Good to see you, and welcome to MSF!

The Long tail by Anderson is a good book. He was way ahead of his time really! I knew someone else who wrote a similar book in early 2009 but cannot remember who he is at the moment (maybe Marshal), but I can tell you I liked Anderson's the best out of the two.

I think people miss out on a lot of traffic when not using long tail phrases.

[Zethix]

I've used those 'Guaranteed' traffic services in the past, and gotten no results from them. The traffic is generally low quality bot or hit-and-run PTC traffic, which is useless for making conversions.

Long term strategies for building relevant backlinks, coupled with creating fresh, original content to your website, will always get better results.

[Jim Gillum]

Note:
Anderson's book was revised in 2008 and is available from Amazon...(I am not an affiliate)

[TroyPhillips]

First off.... first post lol.

Way too many think that free traffic is great no matter where they originate from or what they are seeking .

Free traffic is great... if you understand how to qualify it .

Find the hungry crowd .

Find the terms they are using to search for their hunger ender.

Find the product they are searching for .

Remain relevant to this hunger in every aspect of your campaign.

By the time they get to the table ... they will buy what you have to eat .

[Admin]

Hi Troy,

Welcome to MSF!

First post or not, you are right!

[TroyPhillips]

Think I am going to like it here

Always enjoy your post from other sources .

Been doing this a day or two lol.

If I can ever be of help... you now know how to get in touch

Troy

Originally Posted by Admin

Hi Troy,

Welcome to MSF!

First post or not, you are right!

[Dean]

Speaking of untargeted traffic - I presume one of my affiliates entered my site on a Chinese traffic exchange. I get pretty good traffic from them - my affiliate gets 0% conversions.

[TroyPhillips]

As a former traffic exchange owner ... be careful with Chinese traffic . I was getting urgent emails from the main everyday with new email addresses, domains, and IP's that had to be banned .

Not saying anything about anyone but there is some very sophisticated bots coming from that neck of the woods .

Originally Posted by Dean

Speaking of untargeted traffic - I presume one of my affiliates entered my site on a Chinese traffic exchange. I get pretty good traffic from them - my affiliate gets 0% conversions.

[Admin]

Originally Posted by TroyPhillips

As a former traffic exchange owner ... be careful with Chinese traffic . I was getting urgent emails from the main everyday with new email addresses, domains, and IP's that had to be banned .

Not saying anything about anyone but there is some very sophisticated bots coming from that neck of the woods .

Troy,

I've had the unfortunate pleasure of running into some of these bots here with this forum, and they weren't solicited. The only thing I could do was banned them, and enter them in on a Robot text and htaccess files. Lol they are still trying after a year plus.

Matter of fact, there was a long list of them I sent James a couple of days ago so he didn't have to go through it.

[TroyPhillips]

I banned over 6000 in one month from a safe list I owned . By the time I got finished ... the safe list was not worth my time to maintain any longer . Only had about 12,000 left lol.

Originally Posted by Admin

Troy,

I've had the unfortunate pleasure of running into some of these bots here with this forum, and they weren't solicited. The only thing I could do was banned them, and enter them in on a Rot text and htaccess files. Lol they are still trying after a year plus.

Matter of fact, there was a long list of them I sent James a couple of days ago so he didn't have to go through it.

[Dean]

Well at the moment they are going to my sales page and bouncing - I guess the entry fee is too high

[Admin]

Originally Posted by Dean

Well at the moment they are going to my sales page and bouncing - I guess the entry fee is too high

Lol I hear you on the entry fee. That was a good one ....

Jim Gillium would like that comment. Hmm ... I wonder where he is this eve.

[JMPruitt]

I totally agree here. more targeted traffic is the only way to generate a long term income. If you just want people to see your site, but don't care if you sell anything, I guess that is fine.

I guess that iswhy i never understood keyword stuffing to rank for un relevant keywords. how many people actually made money doing that? if your traffic is not targeted to what you are selling, you are wasting your time and theirs.

[Admin]

Lol I didn't like keyword stuffing when it first came out and don't now. It didn't or doesn't rank well, and the people I know that did try it didn't make much from it, so went back to doing what they were doing when they made more money!

To them, it was worth it if they got caught at it.

[TroyPhillips]

Relativity wheels is where it is at . James S and I have been doing a little experiment taking articles for low search keywords ( 100 searches a day) and interlinking the keyword structure to have the same article show in three different categories .

This effectively takes three very related keywords and puts each of their articles on the same page ... three different times .

All of a sudden you have turned a one hundred a day search term into a 450 a day search term.

Targets your traffic because of it's relevance . Wow .. I use that word too much . Or is it just that important ?

Originally Posted by JMPruitt

I totally agree here. more targeted traffic is the only way to generate a long term income. If you just want people to see your site, but don't care if you sell anything, I guess that is fine.

I guess that iswhy i never understood keyword stuffing to rank for un relevant keywords. how many people actually made money doing that? if your traffic is not targeted to what you are selling, you are wasting your time and theirs.