Do you buy your traffic or do SEO? > for your affiliate site

You're absolutely right - SEO is getting extremely harder than it was a few years ago. Why? Because every day thousands of websites are entering the world wide web which in turn dilutes rankings and gives search engines far more websites to crawl through.

How can you combat this? Create the best possible content that you can. If you focus solely on your content, you will naturally produce great keywords and engage users. You have to remember people search the web for quality content on topics that matters to them. What good does it do you if you get someone to your page by using bootlegged SEO tactics with crappy content? Nothing. They won't stay and click around - they'll leave, and won't come back.

The takeaway here is that content is king. I know you want to make money with your affiliate links just like the rest of us, but you won't if you spend too much time buying traffic and having crappy content. Make content you want to share and that you are proud of, only then will you stand out from the rest and see real traffic and real results.

Just my two cents.

Yeah, it's hard to promote affiliate sites and build links to it using whitehat tactics.. But you can always product informational and high quality content, link from it to your money pages and promote THAT informational content. That way, you'll be passing the link juice to your money pages and eventually rank them even if you don't build links to them

I used mostly paid traffic.

Yeah, it's hard to promote affiliate sites and build links to it using whitehat tactics.. But you can always produce informational and high quality content, link from it to your money pages and promote THAT informational content. That way, you'll be passing the link juice to your money pages and eventually rank them even if you don't build links to them directly. That's how people rank their amazon websites.

One more thing is build an authority site instead. Go big. Authority sites are the way to go. Once your site gain authority, your freshly baked content will almost instantly rank #1 on search engines (No Joke).

SEO is getting easier.

One example...

Featured snippets makes it possible to rank above the #1 ranked organic page for some keywords while having a weaker link profile (less work).

This wasn't possible a few years ago, it wasn't even an option.

Don't get me wrong, SEO is work but you need to be doing the right work.

I prefer paid traffic.

SEO is like playing Russian Roulette.

When I buy traffic I know exactly how much and when.

And it's fast

I think We need SEO for website. don't buy traffic.. SEO website it is better choice.

You should really never be direct linking today. Build a list! I work on seo as a secondary. I do a lot of youtube plus I run bing ads pretty much 24/7 and well as sponsor post in facebook.

No one as in you?

I don't do paid traffic at all. I do little SEO and I have noticed the traffic increasing in my blog the past week.

It depends on your activity. If you're running an ecommerce store then I suggest investing in Paid traffic (social one) You can control the clicks you get and with some optimization you can get fast results.

For a blog , trying to rank the website is the ideal thing. You can see the increase in traffic by the time and it's far easier than trying to rank an ecommerce store.

In my case I usually get the traffic from social medias to my pages then to my links. Better . Faster !

i buy traffic

i also get free pinterest traffic and youtube traffic..

the best thing i did last year was to stop trying to please google search..

its best to be a big fish in a little pond.

-Ike Paz

Are you guys buying traffic from specific places? I've tried before and found it poor quality, but then again i wasn't paying much for it.

Hey there good thread!


Look, people don't struggle with SEO, they are just impatient and when they don't see


results in a week they give up...SEO is easy when you learn it!


I use paid traffic, it's ten times faster and I test my funnels quicker


Thanks!

I got just enough time in the day to research, build a landing page, set up tracking, little bit more research and add the funds and click ENABLE.
adwords is just the fuel and at the moment im driving a honda civic but theres been days and weeks where that fuel was powering a damn ferrari.
but theres those days where you have to walk to work but you dont ever STOP going to work

SEO all the way.

I'm fine spending money on traffic, but I'd much rather find a set of keywords with reasonable competition and search volume then hit it hard.

Paid traffic? Hmm! I have tried it. Not once and not twice. Several times. But you have to be careful, you might spend your money with no return on investment.

Take this example. You have a facebook page for your business. You promote it and receive so many likes. What does that mean? Does it imply all the likes you get mean business for you? Try it once. You will come back here and tell us your experience.

Similarly, you spend your hard earned money on paid traffic. So many people come to your site and click away. Only 1% (or nobody) become clients. Does that meet your intentions? Those who have bought traffic, what's your experience? Be genuine! Tell us the percentage of click-throughs or visits you have turned into real customers. Is it what you would wish to have?

Well, if you are overambitious and you are looking for quick money, you can spend your bucks on buying traffic hoping to make more money. But always measure the return on investment and go back to the drawing board.

Sustainability is so important in online marketing. I think methods that are more sustainable in the long-run are better. SEO is more time consuming but more sustainable and rewarding in the long-run. All one has to do is to learn how best to go about it. Secondly, you have to give it time.

The world is going to harder than past. The SEO is not out of the world synchronization. According to me, we all need to do both of these to adapt our-self in the new & changing situation. You must increase your site traffic by anyway. SEO is one of the way to increase the site traffic. Thanks for your interest.

Currently I'm doing SEO and almost my traffic sources (80%) come from search engine. I'm also doing FB Ads and GG Adwords but they're not much, around 10%-20% on my total campaign.

So, If you buy traffic via PPC for example. how do you measure a conversion??
is it even possible?

media buys, youtube ads, bing and ppv.

But if you are not building a list, you are waisting your time. I see my clients fail horribly, with SEO. I am not saying its crap, but bear in mind, you will wait for months to rank it, then google will bring in frankenstein or some other crappy update, and boom, down you go.

Buy paid, it costs, but you can turn it on and off like a tap, and you can upscale when you find a winner.

Ecuation its simple for fast results buy traffic or work hard to create quality content and waitt a lotttt to rank have patience

Hello Dear,

SEO:
- SEO Is Best Platform for Increase traffic.
- It's very useful for Generate Organic traffic.

PPC:
- It's Part of the Google Adwords.
- Payed traffic Generate.

Both are Used Promotional Activity.

Thanks.

All depends on what kind of affiliate site you have.

If you're doing something like amazon, then you almost have to do SEO because paid traffic is too expensive to survive on 3% profit share or whatever amazon gives you.

Ultimately you want to do both. Paid traffic for immediate results and SEO for long term.

So which PPC tracking platform do you people use?

Buying Traffic is not a good idea for ranking improvements. I have a shopping affiliate site and promoting products over there, it is something like hiting a bricks wall. You need to put massive efforts for maximum output. It is hard to recommend anything without analyzing your site but I want to say that you must correct On-Page before promoting it online, hope you are working with latest search engine guidelines.

Solo ad traffic converts well for me since I'm in the internet marketing niche. But my favorite way to drive traffic is with content marketing and SEO.

Well, SEO is the best way to promote your website. If anyone wants to get good traffic for their business website then they should use best SEO services to get sales leads.

I like free traffic.

Things like forum posting, google alerts and, to be honest, just simply pumping out a lot of great content--works for me,

But, I do understand the benefits of paid traffic--once you find something that is converting, all you need to do is send more traffic.

Hope this Helps

If you're unwilling to wait for months to get results, then paid traffic is more preferable, as you can quickly and easily analyze your results to know what is converting and send more traffic accordingly!

With paid traffic however, the key to success is to never direct link. Make sure you build a list!

I use solo ads to promote my affiliate offer.

Facebook Traffic is amazing for affiliates to promote products and also second one buying ads is also easy way for promoting affliiate products.

Maybe it's not that SEO is getting harder, it's just that you guys are promoting nothing but junk.....

**Pitchforks come out**

Hear me out.

Back in the day, you could manipulate Google and promote any ol' junk system you found online.

Now you definitely cannot.

What if you created a website only about things you truly enjoyed and loved learning about, and had great deal of knowledge in.

i.e.: Look at TheWirecutter - I bought my headphones after reading a really great article from them because they knew so much and conducted so much.

Make a site of things you use on an everyday basis. I bet where you're sitting right now, you could make an article or video regarding 5 items either on you or within your vicinity.

Do that over time and SEO won't seem so hard.

I am not paid traffic at all. don't buy traffic, SEO website is a better choice for ranking your website.

I do my own. You learn something new everyday when ya do your own

Well, you are going to have to be making one heck of a lot of money per sale as an affiliate to even afford advertising. The only thing I know that pays that well are eCourses and some eBooks. If you are talking about real products (like an Amazon product link), you'll never make more than you spend with advertising.