Top 5 Traffic Sources

Everything you mentioned but I would also add blog commenting, search engine optimization, and forums to that list!

Affiliate promotions
JV's
SEO
Videos
Press Releases

If you are talking about free traffic then these are

- Forums
- Social networking websites
- Doing email marketing from my own free emails
- Sometimes do get traffic from social bookmarking but that nothing to count...

My List
Affiliates
Blog (SEO)
Forums
Facebook


Why does everyone obsess over FREE traffic all the time?

It just means you are forfeiting a HUGE amount of profit.

Nothing wrong with paid traffic, however to get my keywords/pages ranking well in google I have always used the methods as listed above.

Alot of you guys talk about JV'S/AFFILIATES this seems like a no brainer if you have your own product or are in the "making money online" niche but for me I am the affiliate.

When I think of paid traffic I think of PPC / Ad's on 3rd party sites. My understanding is these do nothing for SEO/backlinks - please correct me if im wrong here!

All the above are good suggestions, but don't forget about twitter. Twitter is an excellent resource for finding out the followers and lists of the best internet marketers. A tweet can be just as effective or more as a list. And it is much easier to get people to friend you on places like facebook and twitter than it is to get opt ins.

Definitely NOT knocking an email list. DO NOT get me wrong about that. Excellent idea, but don't forget twitter.

Gmail ads, facebook ads, ppc and forums. That is what works for me

For me top traffic sources are:

Web 2.0 websites like hubpages, squidoo etc
Social media sites like youtube etc
Blogs
Pingler.com

I hope this helps!

Regards
Franco

My own sites and affiliates are probably top two right now.

Hey Aaron,

I totally agree with you on all of your methods. I find that there are two key things when attracting people to your business. They are:

1 - Content production
2 - Interactive media (web 2.0)

I have found that the latter is much more effective in actively bringing people into my business as well as making product sales because via interactive media (i.e. a blog), you build a personal relationship with your prospects and they get to trust and "know" you making a much stronger conversion from leads to sales.

That being said, the question was best ways to get traffic, not sales and so in that regard, I find that social media (especially twitter) is a highly effective way of getting great traffic because I can draw people to my lead capture page, blog or content. In addition to that, you can actively start building relationships through twitter which can shorten your sales process considerably.

Hi Andyhenry, Jon, Franco
i see you all use video as the strategic to market it, just one quick question. Did you use window movie marker to do it or buy any other software to do it?

I think i would like to venture in more detail on the video stuff now coz i want to try out one by one method first to see whether it really worthy or suitable for me.

Can i pm you all? let me know

Paid Traffic (PPC, Banners, Ads On High Traffic sites)
Content on other properties
Press Releases
Video
Articles (outsource the writing for ease)

Peace

Jay

IMO:

Blog commenting is great for SEO, backlinks generation.
Forums are good for traffic
Articles good for traffic and SEO
Youtube videos are great for traffic.

Thank you.

I also use animoto, it makes 2minutes of slapping words and pictures together look professional. I will have to buy the full, however anyone who hasnt tried it, you can create decent 30 sec videos for free.

True. Press releases, video marketing and also forum/blog commenting shouldn't be excluded in the list as these are also highly recognized by the search engines.

Social media is the most up to date method of traffic generation and very effective. You can target easily your visitors and they are the top traffic website actually online... facebook by example.

Niche forums is also a good way!

Best of luck to all of you,

Dear, thanks for providing such information.
Getting traffic is the most important thing. What's the use of having a good product/website without visitors knowing it.

You may add a free blog , make a free blog can bring to you some traffic and back links. Blogging is a profitable work also.

I totally agree that social media is very effective method for generating traffic.

Most of my visitors come from natural search, I have not done any "promotion" for one of my blogs while it ranks no 6 on first page for about 96,000 visitors. Though I'm quite curious how will do when I start promoting it with article creation and others...

My 5 top traffic techniques in order:

1. Creating videos, submitting in multiple sites, create video sitemap and dominate google SERP.

2. Tutorial submission websites. I submit all my tutorials in more and more submission websites.

3. I create free ebooks and spread them like fire.

4. Building mail list and daily sending blog posts to my list.

5. Blog commenting

i use senuke and get good traffic i whould say video and socialbookmarking is great for traffic if done right.

According to my experience, here are 10, 5 extra bonuses.

- PPC
- SEO
- Guest post on blog related to your niche and that have a high traffic
- Social bookmarking
- Twitter
- Forum Posting
- Press release
- Submit Articles
- Craigslist
- Submit video

blog commenting, search engine optimization, forums and social boookmarking should be added!

Google News is by far the best traffic driving source I have ever come across. Yesterday, I made a video that shows me getting to the front page in ten minutes.

My top 5 traffic sources:

1) SEO
2) PPC
3) Twitter
4) Facebook
5) Article Marketing

For me, article submission is a good choice when attract traffic for our sites. Everyday, I can submit several articles to EZA. Once these articles are approved by them, then these articles will be indexed by search engines and become the source of the traffic.

My top 5 sources:

1. SEO (combo of hundreds of articles and blog posts)

2. Affiliates -in my top 3 sources for over 8-years now

3. PPC (for two of my 4 niches where profitability is very high)

4. Social networks - bookmarking (Delicious, Digg, Stumble, Reddit)

5. Youtube + other video directories - I've given video more focus in the last year and it is starting to really do well

Early days (years ago) I used more article swaps and ezine advertising.

Jeff

My top favorite traffic methods are

1)Ezines Solo (favorite)
2)Article Marketing
3)Press Release
4)banner advertising
5)Text advertising

Those of you using articles to get traffic who need some ideas for new articles should take a look at a custom article search I just made available here:

Article Search

It's free. Just something I needed and thought others might find useful. It searches the top 10 article directories. Works just like Google (since it is a custom Google search).

Let me know it you like it. I'm still tweaking it and trying to make it better. Feel free to send me suggestions.

This post is definitely about free vs paid methods.

Free methods work. Paid methods work better.

Most free methods are great for back linking while most paid methods bring in more direct traffic that is far easier to convert. Further, paid methods generally require less work and work faster than the free methods.

For a newbie starting out in Internet Marketing, free methods may be all they can use. When the money starts rolling in, most continue doing the same old thing. If only they would reinvest this little money in paid methods, chances are they would do better.

As for how many methods can be used, I would say all. The trouble with this is obviously cost and time constraints. However, using as many as you can and doing this well is fine. Putting all eggs in one basket is always risky.

That said, if you can use four methods really well everyday, then there is no reason why you cannot succeed.

Here is a simple formula to get traffic to any website.

Split all of your traffic methods into 3 category's

1) BUY 2) Borrow 3) Create


Buy : PPC, Direct Mail, Ezine ads, Ebay, Solo ads etc.

Borrow: JV, affiliate marketing, Email Swaps, up sells, down sells , giveways , co-op ads,etc..

Create: Viral marketing, PR, articles, Blogging , Content sites, forum posting much more etc..

Make sure you have a SYSTEM in place all the time

Save Your Self Time Energy & Money.



~Vic

One method that works awesome for me is to post a cool video on my site from youtube then shoot an email out to all my friends with a link to the video. Tell them to pass it on and you generate a ton of traffic quick. Now if only I could get them to click on some ads then I'd be a happy camper.

Best Way for Traffic Source
1. Press Release
2. Article Submission
3. Social Bookmarking
4. PPC
5. Affiliate Marketing

We use Forums
article marketing
twitter
facebook
jv
video marketing
affiliates
seo
craigslist

Those are great traffic sources, and you would be hard pressed to better them right now, but who knows how the Internet scene may be like in a few months time

Hi,

There are many ways through which you get best traffic towards your site (which you want to give promotion).

Here in this thread you find may ways of advertising. The plan i follow is here.

My Advertising Plan:
There are 13 main posting strategies.
1. classified ads posting
2. Targeted Blog Commenting
3. Forum ads postings
4. E mail marketing
5. Google Adwords, PPC
6. Google and Yahoo Group Discussion
7. Yahoo Answers
8. Video Marketing on Youtube
9. Google Answers
10. Book Marking
11. banner Advertising
12. Article and Free Report Submission
13. Facebook / Twiter

For further promotion you may take tutorials over SEO/SMM and SEM

So i will do more than classified ads posting to get you more benefit, traffic and profit.

Its all about which i do and still get success.

Hope it helps you best

My 5 op traffic sources are:

PPC
YouTube videos
Article marketing
Forum Marketing
Yahoo Answers

Number 1 is Social Media, followed by of course Warrior Forum, then Article Marketing, Blog Commenting and Affiliate Promotions.

There are many sources to get traffic. It is on how you manage and use it.

Here my 5 pretty much the same as everyone else

1. Viral Marketing - Placing ads on other peoples sites.

2. Ezine Solo Ads

3. Youtube

4. Articles

5. Web 2.0

My top 5 traffic sources:

1) PPC
2) SEO
3) forum
4) article submission
5) blog

Here's some more helpful tips:

Top 4 Ways To Generate Low Cost Website Traffic


There is one hard and fast rule in generating income for your website: A steady flow of website traffic. If no one goes to your site, it hardly bares a chance of generating an income. Many sites have tried and failed in doing so, and these results to the sites demise. It takes money to maintain an income generating site; it also takes money to make money.

BUT, it doesn’t take a whole caboodle of cash to generate website traffic for your site.

Ever wonder how does big hit sites drive traffic top their site? Most of them are spending tons of money to drive the traffic to their sites, investing in many advertising campaigns and different forms of marketing schemes and gimmickries. This is all worthwhile because, well, they are what they are now, high earning, big hitting websites.

You don’t have to do this if you don’t really have their resources. There are many ways to generate low cost website traffic without having to spend what you don’t have or can’t afford. Many people have banked on high cost methods and have ended up losing their shirt over it.

Here I present to you the Top five ways to generate low cost website traffic that could help your site a whole lot. Even if you only get a small percentage of successful visitors in to client ratio it still works especially if you get a high number of website traffic.

Exchange Links

This is a sure and proven method. Rarely would you see a site where there is no link to another site. Many webmasters are willing to exchange links with one another so that they could produce more public awareness about their sites. You’ll soon see and feel the sudden upsurge of the traffic coming in to your site from other sites.

A major prerequisite in exchanging links with other sites is having the same niche or content as the other site. They should share a common subject so that there is continuity in the providing of service and information to what interests your target traffic.

Exchanging links also boosts your chances of getting a high ranking in search engine results. It is common knowledge that search engines ranks high sites that have inbound and outbound theme-related links. With a good ranking position in the search engines, you will generate more traffic in your website without the high costs.

Traffic Exchange

This is like exchanging links but on a different higher level. This may cost a bit more than exchanging or trading links but could be made cheaper because you get to earn credits. You can use those credits when viewing others traffic, while you earn credits when someone views yours.

Traffic exchange services are the viewing of another’s site or page. This is done vice versa where a site can use your sites contents and so can you to his or her site. You both benefit from each others efforts to generate traffic. The other sites visitors can go to your pages and know more about your site as well as theirs. Once again the public awareness of your sites existence is boosted.

Write and Submit Articles

There are many e-zines and online encyclopedias in the internet which provides free space for articles to be submitted. If you want to save costs, you can do the articles yourself. There are many freelance writers who are willing to write for you for a small fee, but to save money, it is wise to do those articles yourself.

Write articles that are themed along with the niche of your site. Write something that you have expertise on so that when they read it, they can feel your knowledge about the subject and will be eager to go to your site. Write articles that produce tips and guidelines to the subject or niche your site has.

Include a resource box at the end of your article that can link them to your site. Write a little about yourself and your site. If you provide a light, information-laden and interesting article, they will go to your site for more.

Make a Newsletter.

This may sound like hard work because of all the articles you may need to use to build a newsletter but on the contrary, this is not so. There are many writers and sites that are willing to provide free articles as long as they can get their name in on your newsletter. This will also provide free advertising for them as well.

As your newsletter gets pass around, you can widen your public awareness and build an opt-in list that can regularly visit your site.

My top five are:

1) Social Bookmarking
2) Facebook Groups
3) Facebook Pages
4) article marketing
5) search engine optimization on and off page

Regards,
Clint Butler

That's an oxymoron isn't it?

A bit like:

• Scottish Football
• Airline Food
• Military Intelligence

Will

My top five are:

1) Social Bookmarking
2) Blog Commenting
3) Blog Guest posting
4) Article Marketing & Building Lenses in Squidoo
5) Social Media Marketing

Thanks for great ideas about bringing traffic to my website.

because I am on a budget, I normally do article marketing, web 2.0 properties as well as SEO, which is extremely time consuming