Traffic methods...

[Rich Mann]

This is an impressive list of traffic building activities. I imagine that the beginners looking at this would be very intimated at all the work it takes to drive traffic.

I would suggest to anyone starting out, that these activities be broken down into bite size chunks that can be easily managed over time. Develop a daily routine of setting up time slots in your daily calendar to work on each piece for a given amount of time. None of this can be accomplished overnight.

It requires a lot of self discipline to effectively produce results.

Great post qkz283

Rich Mann

[jimbo21]

Wow I think this thread covers it all. Awesome list in the first post.

[viralim]

Thanks for the info. Useful.

[Cassie18]

I've bookmarked this for future use. Thanks for all the info .

[HomeBizNizz]

Originally Posted by SiteFlipRemix

Awesome post!
I have bookmarked it

Originally Posted by Cassie18

I've bookmarked this for future use.
Thanks for all the info .

I saved the first post to a textfile,
just incase this forumthread goes AWOL.

[John Dufresne]

Thank you for this wonderful info.

[martin2]

great info, thanks

[k8spy8]

Like the post it is very elaborated and written in such a way so that newbies will get a clear idea on traffic. My sense about traffic is that a glass without water. What I want to mean that your site will be of no use if you can not bring traffic to it.

[martin2]

Well, I use feald to get more followers on twitter, posting unique content.

[callseller]

Wonderful. A lot of information.

I get easily overwhelmed with all the information.

I REALLY appreciate the value of this.

Thanks

[lazymansmaster]

i love your comment its indeed an eye opener
however what about PPC adds are they not effective enough

[HassanAjmal]

Great post, here is some more:

Article/Post syndication:

Use Twitterfeed to connect to your blog. Then, have twitter feed also
connect to Ping.fm.

On Ping.fm, sign up for a few social networks. Now, when you update
your blog, it will push out to ping.fm, and from there it will update your status(your post link) for
all the social media sites you signed up for. (Your post link will be sent to multiple networks)

Blog==>>Twitterfeed==>>Ping.fm==>> All social media sites.

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Now, if you want to post actual CONTENT, like full posts on other social media do this:

Sign up for LiveJournal, Multiply, Vox, and Blogger.
Get Crosspress plugin and Live+Press plugin.

Use CrossPress to "post by email" to Multiply, Blogger, and Vox.
Use Live+Press plugin to syndicate to Livejournal. (Only paid members can "post by email", so here is a free alternative)

Update: You could also use Posterous to update Blogger, Livejournal, and Xanga. This way you don't even have to use the Livejournal plugin (Live+Press)

Walaa! You have now spread your content further onto the net. More chances of people coming back to your main site! =)

[HassanAjmal]

Originally Posted by qkz283

Very nice. Thanks for sharing. You can also use Posterous, which will syndicate the content to all of your social networks.

oh wow, thats even better! I messaged them to add Vox and Multiply

[yourreviewer]

Great post, but the problem for newbies and even some experienced marketers is finding the budget and the resources to do all these things.

[Arted4Life]

Originally Posted by onlinemarketer22

Some good info here for newbies, thanks for sharing.

Yep exactly what they said. Always good for this information to be easily accessible.

[sbucciarel]

Originally Posted by qkz283

Yes, I wrote it all.

Is your name Ian Gaddis?
ezinearticles.com/?expert=Ian_Gaddis

Also shown here: slideshare.net/Denniswhite/how-to-build-long-lasting-website-traffic-presentation

and here:
tomasloden.com/how-to-to-build-up-your-website-traffic

plus another couple of blogs that attributed the original ezinearticles author. It's already indexed from here. If you're not Ian Gaddis, the real Ian Gaddis might get perturbed with someone from here claiming this article as their own.

[miwriting]

That's a great post! This list is a great jumping off point, since each one of those ideas can provide enough material for an entire article of its own. Thanks for putting all the info in one place for easy reference.

[gbm000]

The list given by the OP is excellent. A great reference point for IMers of all levels.

The only addition I would make to the discussion is to point out that whilst all traffic is good, targeted traffic is essential. Without targeted traffic, sales conversion rates will be poor.

Sensible advice has been given by other contributors about concentrating on one traffic methodology at a time. I agree with this, but would also recommend that you only select traffic sources that are capabale of delivering targeted traffic to your website.
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[akif]

Originally Posted by Maenad

Does anyone here have a copy of the original post by the OP? I can't find anything. It seems to have been edited out and the only message left is


Stick to one method and focus on it.

I think It has been Removed.

[anu_smart]

Originally Posted by Jake M

Stick to one method and focus on it.

where is the list?!

[Player87]

Where is this so-called execellent list?

[George Langer]

Why was it removed?
However, I disagree with focusing on only 1 thing, you should do at least 2-3!

[sscot]

My feelings are so sad I clicked on this thread because it’s about traffic. Unfortunately, it has been edited by OP. Then, how do I read your brilliant post? Why did you do it for last visitors? too bad baby..... YES..... too bad...... Did someone threaten you as remove it? tell me I know karate


I saw, someone had told "I bookmarked this thread for future use" Advice... don't bookmark useful warrior threads, ----> File > Save Page As


My dear sweet OP, can you PM me the post? If not, I'll be crying loudly

[Troy Broussard]

Traffic is great and can be the big compensator. By that I mean, even if you have a crappy conversion rate if you get enough traffic you can still be effective.

However...

Don't fall into this concept that everything is about traffic. You can make significant full time income off of just a couple hundred users a day to your site if you have the right sales funnel, rapport with your users and appropriate backend systems and follow up.

Traffic is good, but it is not the ONLY thing you should be worried about. Personally my recommendation is once you're getting some sales, shift your focus away from worrying so much about traffic and more towards your sales funnel, auto responder, backend systems, etc... Efficiency there can help you increase your earnings and allow you to inject more into your traffic building.

Don't worry about those things, however, until you're getting some sales. You need enough traffic to first be making a little money before you start worrying about conversions and backend. Otherwise you're just wasting your time.

[Ralf Skirr]

Originally Posted by Jake M

Stick to one method and focus on it.

No offense, but this about the worst advice you could give to any web site owner.

In this very forum we have seen numerous examples of people who did this and their business got busted when the specific method they relied on stopped working without prior warning.

Ralf

[YoderIII]

I agree. Find one method (ie article writing as an example) and once your website starts ranking for the keywords from the articles then move on to the next method.

[Dann Vicker]

Actually by focusing on one method, I believe the OP is encouraging readers to master one method first and then move on to others, one at a time. That way you don't get everything all jungled up

[Ben Gordon]

Very well stated for newbies and even intermediates. Sticking to one general traffic method is the key to receiving a lot of traffic but I believe that you should have more than one traffic source available to you if you own a large business. I still agree that one general and main traffic method should be used, but having more than one traffic method can be very profitable too.

[Afflit]

I can agree with that.. if it's not broken why fix it?..

[shireen]

Hi:

Shireen here :-)

Totally agree, I generated most of my traffic from ebay :-)

[celente]

Originally Posted by Afflit

I can agree with that.. if it's not broken why fix it?..

agreed.

The thing that you want to do is go to where your most likely prospect is hanging out.

We have done well by doing media buys on high traffic forums and blogs. Even for affiliate programs it works.

and again, test, test, test....what works for joe bloggs, might not nessesary work for you and your business to get sales. But Do not wait for the traffic to go to u. Make sure you infact go to it first!!! The rest is history.

[vehiclerepairtalk]

Thats definately good info

[satrap]

Originally Posted by utproducts

Stick to one method and focus on it.

That is the worst advice ever!

Why would you want to only focus on method?... So you can work hard for it for months and years and if for some reason one day you lose the traffic from that method, you lose everything?....

I would thin most people would agree that its best not to put all of your eggs in one basket.


For those who are disappointed about the list not being here anymore, here is a list I created a while back:

61 ways to generate traffic

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[celente]

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[Osman_M]

Am I missing something? Where is the list that everyone is talking about?

[Jnelson]

Originally Posted by satrap

That is the worst advice ever!

Why would you want to only focus on method?... So you can work hard for it for months and years and if for some reason one day you lose the traffic from that method, you lose everything?....

I would thin most people would agree that its best not to put all of your eggs in one basket.


For those who are disappointed about the list not being here anymore, here is a list I created a while back:

61 ways to generate traffic

I agree with you Satrap ...its only by exposing your site in maximum places over the net and working where people are already present , can help in bringing steady traffic to your site.

[Richard Van]

Originally Posted by Kevin2moon

Some good info here for newbies, thanks for sharing.

So you keep saying, over and over again in all of your very short and rapid fire posts.

Don't worry though, I'm reporting them all and it won't be long before a mod pops in to have a look at your signatures which looks to me like a rather naff attempt at cookie stuffing.

Anyway, you just run through as many posts as you can in the meantime thanking everyone for their "Share". You really are soooo original.

[MattCatania]

THIS THREAD IS 3 YEARS OLD!

Mods please lock this.

[chrislangley]

I agree sticking to one method until you master it is the way to go

[paul_1]

Thanks for that very helpful info! You did a great JOB! Keep it up