The Best, Cheapest Method Of Getting Targeted Traffic To Your Website!

I'm a big fan of the forum marketing

I think the best way to drive sustained traffic is through having a team of dedicated backlink specialists create thousands of high quality backlinks focusing mainly on blog and forum commenting. I get about 800 Visitors a day from work done over the last 4 months. Not a bad investment. It also has the added benefit of helping me get ranked on lots of great keywords.

A good PPC campaign will get highly targeted traffic, although it's not the cheapest..
I think it really depends on what it is you have to offer

I have the highest sign-up conversion rate for the
link in my signature through forum marketing. PPC
comes in a close second.

Tyrus

A post with good keywords and content on target will not only bring you more traffic, get your site positioned for more traffic again, give you an rss feed for more traffic again and easier to social bookmark for more traffic again and finally adds to the overall ranking of your site.

But keep doing that article marketing because it is good to.

Proof from Customers site and one post.

Tyrehouse is a customer and we did a targeted post on "Ford Tyres" and they are an Australian customer hence the spelling.

Page one and lots of sales About 1,990,000 results (0.07 seconds)

And in the end traffic without sales is like a car without wheels.

Quentin

I voted forum marketing, but it really depends on what market you have, for example, I have a eccomerce site selling tshirts, is article marketing really gonna get me buyers? Maybe, but it's unlikely, I do still post articles for the SEO benefit. Youtube is also an awesome traffic source to jump into, but again it comes down to your market.

Ruchi

Where is SEO? or were we supposed to pick blogging LOL

Two best sites for getting High quality backlink pros is ODesk, and Backlinkteam, I have used both and had awesome results.

Here are my favorites:

1. Forum Marketing
2. Guest Blogging
3. Social Networking

Guest Blogging is the new article marketing. If you are going to write an article or get one made you might as well put it on a high traffic website...not that articles directories are not high traffic...the blogs are more focused on the actual posts and features them on the front page...

If you pick the right blogs to guest post to you can get thousands of visits from it...

I agree with you that if done correctly article marketing is very effective to drive massive and cheap traffic to your sites .

As far as traffic generation are concerned my favorites are PPC , PPV and Media Buys.

Mike

The easiest way is probably setting up some viral script that lets people download something if they refer an 'X' number of friends to the website. Then promote it on forums a bit and watch the users flow.

The best targeted traffic would be from a JV from a person who is in your own niche. However, that is not always possible and therefore, I would have to go with good written articles which are high quality and provide solutions that a user can be facing.
Kevin

Having your own email list, you can drive traffic to your site with a broadcast message to your list.

Just a 'oneplusone' mentioned, the Gurus use email marketing to drive targeted traffic to their products & squeeze pages.

You don't need to land big JV deals to participate in Ad Swaps or use Solo Ads.

You can visit 'Safe Swaps', a site specifically designed to facilitate Ad Swaps and Solo Ads, sort of like Escrow for the transaction, tracking clicks and confirming list sizes.

Keep building your list and develop a relationship with your list by providing value.

If you aim of getting traffic is to get a subscriber, why not skip the traffic bit and just get the subscriber.

Who has the subscriber?
Someone that already has them and is will to share/swap or mail out for a fee.

The traffic actually happens then they visit your squeeze page and sign up.

Well you did ask for the best, off course a marketer is going to use a mix of tactics.

The BEST, Cheapest - well that's the method that you know well and use on a regular basis. No need to chase the next best thing, get a traffic method in place, automate it - then you can look at learning the next one.

So I'm voting for the the ONE YOUR GOOD AT.

I understand what you're saying, but I never said anything about "chasing the next best thing" -- Just from my experience, articles are the cheapest form of targeted traffic, considering they cost around $5-10 to produce and you don't have to split the profits with the person who did the JV mailing to their list... So while you might do MORE volume from a single JV mailing, in terms of profit and cost per visitor I have better numbers with article marketing.

But I agree with you 100% -- It's what works for YOU and what you are good at that will ultimately be the best (and cheapest). Everyone has their thing that works for them.

On a separate note... It still looks like article marketing is the leader in this poll!

Best,
Shane

Thanks for sharing that...agree with you 100%

SEO and Ezine ads for me

While my numbers are too low to really convey any absolute method in traffic building, I can say this;

My focus started with learning keyword research, SEO, one-page, meta data, etc... and I saw some varying results. The one method I have chosen as the main focus for my future traffic is clearly article marketing or article syndication.

While, I continue to apply concern for SEO practices, I have since found great relief in knowing; by concentrating on article syndication one can virtually rid themselves from the emphasis and reliance often placed on Google for short-term targeted traffic.

Might I add, that Google pissed me off suspending my AdWords account "for life" due to the rookie mistake of linking to an affiliate offer on my very first 'test run' with the AdWords dashboard.

This revealed a specific and undeniable bias that "G" could care less about marketers at the entry level, and while maintaining the internet and policing the junk is a good thing... it too shows the sheer lack of compassion they hold for those who make an honest (*and admittedly; an ignorant) mistake.

Furthermore, with so many war stories of algorithm changes, sites mysteriously being de-indexed, sand-boxed, and falling from the sky; I cannot imagine why one would want to place such heavy interest in SEO alone???

Finally, I am glad the Google-Slap to my AdWords account happened early on, long before I had really devoted much time to building my sites... because now, it has led to exploring 'alternate avenues' that should outlast and sustain beyond any changes "G" decides to dictate at will, while remaining compliant to one key element; quality information.

Plus, adapting this 'mindset' keeps us on our toes to provide usable, viable, and quality content, as opposed to 'gaming the system' for a quick buck or two.

Since I am interested in the long-term model, I'm definitely aiming to position my business (and the future thereof) in the path of quality information, and be linked to those who maintain similar concern, as would be implied by the OP's choice pick.

No-brainer really, especially since it's FREE!!!

All the Best,

Art

myself , I would prefer social marketing, social bookmarks and social media.