What's the best way to gain traffic?

YouTube is a good way to get some traffic. If you want fast traffic try and grab a facebook ad coupon or google adsense coupon and try that.

The best way to get traffic FAST is to pay for it. It's a question of whether you are willing to invest in time or invest in money. If you have the time to wait, then by all means do article marketing, SEO, video marketing. But to get traffic now, then do PPC, solo ads and other paid methods to get targeted traffic.

Video is my favorite bud.. It's fun not like other methods that are boring

Article marketing works very well and if you are reluctant to write the articles yourself, pay someone to do it for you or buy plr that you overhaul. In the meantime, do a lot of back- linking. You can also do ezines, giving away free stuff to people who sbscribe to your list.

organic traffic is good and targeted.

Article marketing works very well and if you do not want to write the articles yourself, pay someone else to do it for you or just buy plr that you can overhaul. Back-links also work really well. The other thing you could do is do solo ads on ezines giving away free stuff to people who sign up.

Honestly, I find article marketing to be one of the best ways to gain high quality traffic. It's one of the most affordable, and I've found that visitors coming from articles tend to have higher conversion rates.

SEO for long term....media buys for short

For fast untargeted cheap traffic you can try adfly . com
About 30000 views the first month raises page rank by 1
I did that with several of my sites

You can post a few ads a day to Craigslist. Every 48 hours you can renew the ad. Do 3 or 4 ads a day.

One of my fav ways to get traffic is to do banner swaps with other internet marketers in your market. What make this rock is it's totally free and super targeted.

As it goes I've made a video on how to do it with email swipes etc, if you're interested you can watch it here.

Secret Free Traffic Method Only The Top-Gun Marketers Are Using... But I'll Show You How Right Now!

Hope it helps.

James Scholes

Forgot it's end of the world this year. Best of forgetting all traffic gettin' methods and focus on enjoying yourself instead.

...Thinking about it, wasn't the world gonna end last year as well?

James Scholes

I've not been doing solo ads myself yet, but I know quite a few people who generate great traffic with them - It all depends on how targeted your product/offer to the mailing list your opt for, so one needs to target carefully.

Wow! Thanks for the great replies I've had so far. James, I particularly like your banner swaps idea!
Marc

Here are a few you could try (Works well for me)

1. Videos
2. Article Syndication
3. Social Media (Facebook, Youtube - see number 1, Twitter)
4. Transcription to sharing sites
5. Guest Blogging
6. Forums
7. Blog commenting
8. Video Responses
9. Ebook syndication

Some work well better than others, like syndication, guest blogging, videos, and transcribing, but all bring me traffic.

I will be testing Solo Ads soon - as I hear they are very powerful.

- Martin

SEO and PPC is the way to go.

For best (and fastest) traffic gain, I would go buying the traffic route like PPC and Solo Ads.

If your after fast traffic without the high expenditure then take a look at Facebook Ads. You can get highly targeted visitor for cheap too.

Want to elaborate on what its for?

Its kind of difficult to go into without knowing. As there are tons of traffic sources but it may or may not be good for what you're doing.

Facebook has a lot of traffic and you can get very detailed with it. PPC, media buys, self placed media, etc

The best way to gain traffic? Here's in order:

1. JV Partners - they send you traffic from their subscribers. Since it's a form of endorsed marketing, you'll get traffic INSTANTLY at NO COST. All you have to do is to build relationships with people who already have your customers. Some people view this as a competitive strategy, so they try to outbid the competition - in my opinion that is nonsense. Why not competitors be your partners? People like to buy from different places. The only competitor is yourself.

2. YouTube - if you create good videos, green screen, lights, nice background, and really deliver good information, you'll get tons of traffic from it. Put a link on the description to every video that's related to your website to increase CTR. You can add annotations to increase the CTR.

3. SEO - Google and other search engines can pick you up pretty quickly, but when you submit posts on forums like this, you can get a pretty good ranking and a pretty decent traffic within a week! When I started submitting posts and threads in this forum my traffic on my website doubled in just one week. Include link in your signature, but make sure you keep the TOS of Warrior forum!

4. PPC is FAST, but cost you money. If you do not know what you are doing, get ready to lose a lot of money. If you have a budget or some cash flow from other assets, go for it. It's going to pay off. You can test things around really fast. Someone mentioned coupons or discounts for Adwords and Facebook Ads. If you have a website registered in a good hosting company, they usually give you free $50-$75 to advertise.

5. Article marketing - I do not find it a very sufficient, but this does not mean you should take my word for it. There are people who utilize article marketing as a successful strategy, but I am not one of those people. Ezinearticles is the best for submitting articles. I tried Hubpages and Squidoo, Squidoo seems to be better - again, I did not get much value out of article marketing. I better post stuff on my blog :-)

Try some traffic exchange program. It works for me. Commenting on posts also worked.