What is the best way to get TRAFFIC?

Well let's see, there's article marketing, PPC (Pay Per Click), Banner Ads, Press releases, Craigslist, Social networking, Viral marketing, Video maketing, Podcasts, Blogging. Those should get you started. Do some research and you can learn more about them. As far as putting anything on autopilot, the closest thing I can think of is article marketing. If you write good articles you can get traffic for years with just writing one article. Hope this gets you started.

For Paid : PPC , PPV , Banner Ads

Free methods: Article marketing, Video marketing , Blogging, Social media, Forum Marketing.

There are actually tons of ways, the secret is to pick a few that you like and do it consistently.

We all wish we get traffic automatically cos it seems to be a lot of hard work and it takes a lot of time to drive traffic.

PPC is the only automatic way I know to drive traffic but it come with the highest cost.
It works for one of my sites. Set the advertisement once and it brings traffic and sales to me month after month, on full auto-pilot.

The second most effective traffic generator is article marketing.

I had tried participating in forums and it works too.

Video marketing bring in a lot of traffic too.

The success factor is to keep doing it consistently. It takes time and effort.

Depending on what position you are in, your traffic source could be different.

According to John Reese, there are three types of traffic:
1) Paid
2) Borrow
3) Stolen

According to traffic-ology, there are three types of traffic as well:
1) Targeted
2) Random
3) Passer by

The best type of traffic should be pulled in by affiliates, if you have your own products.

Please use the forum search function.

There is no 'Best' way - it depends on your niche, your budget and your resources.

This has been asked a 100 times before.

Here's the list of ideas I usually post in response to this question:

Traffic Sources:
USFreeads
affiliates
Slide sharing (Slideshare.com)
Link Directories
traffic exchanges
List Brokers
Popups/Unders/Overs etc..
Software apps (facebook, toolbars, etc.)
Software/scripts included in CPanel/Fantastico
Pinging your pages and the pages on other sites which link to yours.
Blogs
XML sharing (PADs, Feeds, Sitemaps, RSS etc.)
Wikis
Article directories, and reprinted articles
CPA
PPV
Tell-A-Friend scripts
Twitter , myspace, youtube, facebook etc…
PRs
Sofware links (PAD)
Datafeeds
PPC
Videos, audios
RSS
JVs - ezine, links, ty page, A/Rs
offline (physical books, testimonials/forwards in other peoples books - word of mouth, seminars, networking, business cards, radio advertising, tradeshows, workshops, roadshows, mail, local sponserhips etc)
Recommendations
Viral Marketing (ezines, software, ebooks etc.)
Ezine ads
Testimonials
REviews
comments
Knols
webinar / teleseminar
Online TV stations and radio stations
Ebay
Craigslist
buying other websites with existing traffic and links
buying expired domains with existing traffic
Outsourcing sites - Elance etc.
Traffic swaps
Giveaways
co-regs
giving away templates
Images (Flickr etc)
service offline businesses
Merhandise
Banner Ads
Craigslist and similar
previous customers returning (emails, links in books, promotions etc.)
forums
message boards
yahooanswers
community sites
google news - alerts
Kunaki
cafepress

If there's a best way, we'd be all rich. :p

Just wanna add my 2 cents...

A lot of traffic on autopilot doesn't happen until you integrate several advertising channels into an inter-linked system.

Also, softwares are like supplements, they don't work alone. They can make things simpler, but you still need to do the fundamental works. Think of it like building muscles. You can't just take protein powders everyday without doing some weight-lift training consistently.

I'd like to tell you there's truly a best and easist way, but nothing's perfect. Without enough understanding about how marketing works, any method will not give you good result. I'd suggest spending the time and really digging in to learn marketing...

^ All of the above answers ... you cannot just run a piece of software and get tons of traffic no matter what the sales pages say. It's takes work and a combination of things that have already been mentioned.

well traffic will work if you set everything up first. Yes it can go auto-pilot It is not a myth but a fact. It is a myth when you don't know anything about it

If you want methods to generate traffic to your website, feel free to go to my blog to get ideas for free.

I agree affiliates are powerful, anyone who has a product or service should have an affiliate program.

Check my signature for 10 free methods.

Cheers,
Mukul

The only autopilot traffic that I think you can get is from being in the top 5 rankings on Google which can take a lot of time.

Of course there are no definite method of getting quality traffic to your website but there are some proven ways with which you can get continuous traffic like banner adds, social bookmarking and social networking sites.

The best traffic is REPEAT TRAFFIC.

Here’s my recommended method for anyone to generate traffic and really start making money online (and can be done with NO budget):

1) Choose a niche that you’re preferably passionate about.

2) Create a free report, course, audio, or video that you can give away for FREE. It doesn’t have to be long and drawn out or anything, just make sure it provides useful information to your niche.

3) Give that “freebie” away in exchange for name and email address via a “squeeze page”. If you can’t afford an autoresponder service, MailChimp has a free option for your first 500 subscribers (which is plenty enough to be in profit before you reach 500 subscribers).

4) Focus on building TRUST with your list. Send them 2 pure value mailers for every one promotion that you send their way. Make sure the “pure value” mailers actually provide value. You can give them a high quality article, or direct them to another relevant freebie.

5) On promotion days, make sure you’re promoting high quality offers. Before you’ve earned A LOT of credibility with your list, consider promoting lower priced items such as $7 offers. Once your list is pretty big and you’ve had time to earn a lot of trust, you’ll be able to make money on more higher priced products and services easier.

It’s as simple as that really. Just focus on building your list as fast as you can, and always be thinking of your next mailer. From there, all you have to do is STICK with it and your list, as well as your INCOME will continue to rise.

I recommend doing a 4-6 day mailing schedule because it’s enough time in between to not annoy your list, but still keeps you fresh in their minds (so they don’t forget about you and how they got on your list). It also gives you plenty of time to prepare your next mailer.

I detail that entire process step-by-step in my report (sig), in case you’re interested in pursuing that “money making” method. Hope that helps!

try video marketing.

I couldn't agree more!

Start action right now. Link exchange is good.

Here is one not mentioned.

Create a simple software product and upload to all the shareware directories.

Q

There are a lot of way to get traffic and I had see some of the reply already mention a lot. The most important is you get the knowledge and apply it. The more effort you put in the right direction will result in good traffic.

One sure way is to get lots of backlinks to your website. Preferably with your link on the home page of the site you are linking to. This would definitely do wonders for you.

If you know about SEO then you can get huge traffic from search engine. software or program is unable to give you targeted traffic.

Those are a lot of great ways to get traffic. I use the ppc and blogging method as well as other forms of advertisement.

I've been getting some decent traffic with article marketing, but little sales. If I can only quit my day job, I'd be more motivated to put more work into it.