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12 years ago

Originally Posted by khanhkunt

Hi all,
I have a big question unresolved :confused:. That is how to generate traffic for web/blog?
I wonder between 2 methods: paid and free. You choose which method? How and why?
Thanks for the advice of everyone,
khanhkunt

If you need traffic for your blog it makes no sense to buy traffic unless you are selling your own products or services and you send visitors to your sales page. So for a blog you only need free traffic...

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tryinhere

12 years ago

Originally Posted by khanhkunt

Hi all,
I have a big question unresolved :confused:. That is how to generate traffic for web/blog?

lets see your blog (in your sig) has this as the first post > 9 free methods to increase traffic to web/blog

then your second sig link titled hxxp://traffic-on-autopilot.info/ leads to an affiliate hop link which is against forum rules.

Very easy to see your post is no more than spam / link bait

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ShaneBoyd

12 years ago

Blog traffic? Simply "borrow" visitors from other blogs. Pick 5 blogs in your niche that have a lot of readers. Then post good content on their blogs daily and have your post link back to your blog. This isn't for SEO, it's so the other blog's readers will click on your name and visit your blog. But only if your posts are good.

Another way to conjure up some blog traffic is social media. Make a name for yourself in your social media realm. Get your fan page up and make it attractive. In fact, turn your fan page into your Facebook platform and post on it regularly. If people like your posts, they will follow you and visit your site(s).

Create videos on YouTube and link them back to your site. Again, nothing to do with SEO here, just another way to get free traffic. Once you create your video, post it on your social media networks and conjure up some traffic that way.

And while you're on the social media kick, join some groups in your niche and "borrow" some traffic from those groups. If your posts are good and helpful, people will view you as some kind of authority figure...or at least a person who has some really good content.

Keep in mind dude; you just landed yourself a part-time job as a commissioned sales person. So go out there and sell. Turn your "part-time" job into your full time job in a real fast quick hurry.

Good luck.

P.S. I'd get rid of the millionaire society affiliate link in your sig. file for now. Put a squeeze page there instead. I'm just saying.

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kc33 12 years ago

Shane, that is the best advice I've read in here for a while
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khanhkunt

12 years ago

Originally Posted by ShaneBoyd

Blog traffic? Simply "borrow" visitors from other blogs. Pick 5 blogs in your niche that have a lot of readers. Then post good content on their blogs daily and have your post link back to your blog. This isn't for SEO, it's so the other blog's readers will click on your name and visit your blog. But only if your posts are good.

Another way to conjure up some blog traffic is social media. Make a name for yourself in your social media realm. Get your fan page up and make it attractive. In fact, turn your fan page into your Facebook platform and post on it regularly. If people like your posts, they will follow you and visit your site(s).

Create videos on YouTube and link them back to your site. Again, nothing to do with SEO here, just another way to get free traffic. Once you create your video, post it on your social media networks and conjure up some traffic that way.

And while you're on the social media kick, join some groups in your niche and "borrow" some traffic from those groups. If your posts are good and helpful, people will view you as some kind of authority figure...or at least a person who has some really good content.

Keep in mind dude; you just landed yourself a part-time job as a commissioned sales person. So go out there and sell. Turn your "part-time" job into your full time job in a real fast quick hurry.

Good luck.

P.S. I'd get rid of the millionaire society affiliate link in your sig. file for now. Put a squeeze page there instead. I'm just saying.

Thank u very much.
Thanks for your advice.
I revised signature, so maybe more reasonable.

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khanhkunt

12 years ago

Originally Posted by tryinhere

lets see your blog (in your sig) has this as the first post > 9 free methods to increase traffic to web/blog

then your second sig link titled hxxp://traffic-on-autopilot.info/ leads to an affiliate hop link which is against forum rules.

Very easy to see your post is no more than spam / link bait

Thanks for reminding. I have this link removed. It is the confusion

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kawaii

12 years ago

You get what you pay for.

If you want free, don't expect much.

Plus, you will waste time getting free traffic.

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khanhkunt 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Joyce B

You get what you pay for.

If you want free, don't expect much.

Plus, you will waste time getting free traffic.

but paid traffic really that effective. Can u say more specifically?
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12 years ago

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yasirsaeed

12 years ago

Google is hungry for paid traffic. That is what I think about the logic behind their swift algo changes! They want big names to pay for advertisements. However traffic comes with a mixture of different methods including:

1. Regularly updating your website with unique content
2. Getting genuine backlinks naturally from related websites
3. Marketing your site on facebook, twitter, pinterest and other platforms.

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Paul Dunstan

12 years ago

I would not get paid traffic to blogs. You are not going to be targeted enough for this. You need really to direct people to a squeeze page with a decent free offer, and some additional value, so that these people trust you. Once you are communicating with them via your auto-responder, you can give them links to your lates blog posts. This will generate traffic from your list, and these will be interested people. In addition, they will share good posts to their social media sites and things go viral form there.

There is good paid traffic and bad paid traffic. I could get you 100,000 hits on your blog tomorrow - but none of them would stay longer than a few seconds. A complete waste of time and money.

They have to have a reason for going to your blog. Treat that as the second step, not the first. Always send paid traffic to squeeze pages.

Just my opinion, of course.

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khanhkunt

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Paul Dunstan

I would not get paid traffic to blogs. You are not going to be targeted enough for this. You need really to direct people to a squeeze page with a decent free offer, and some additional value, so that these people trust you. Once you are communicating with them via your auto-responder, you can give them links to your lates blog posts. This will generate traffic from your list, and these will be interested people. In addition, they will share good posts to their social media sites and things go viral form there.

There is good paid traffic and bad paid traffic. I could get you 100,000 hits on your blog tomorrow - but none of them would stay longer than a few seconds. A complete waste of time and money.

They have to have a reason for going to your blog. Treat that as the second step, not the first. Always send paid traffic to squeeze pages.

Just my opinion, of course.

I think it's great idea, build the list, and then directs them to the blog. That would solve more problems ...

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eplanellas 12 years ago

Originally Posted by khanhkunt

I think it's great idea, build the list, and then directs them to the blog. That would solve more problems ...

You can still get free traffic directly to the blog. The best list is filled with those who sought you out and not the only way around. Your visitors should read your great content and think to themselves "Hey, how can I sign up to this guy's list. I would really like to hear more from him!" These kind of people on your list are more willing to buy into the offers you send them.

Getting free traffic to your blog rerquires the usual methods of SEO, article marketing, and other types of backlinks.
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12 years ago

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redeyegirl

12 years ago

Free traffic is you can try to link visitor from your website/other channels to your blog if you promoting something on your blog through facebook or ezine. As for Paid traffic, you will need to buy traffic to your blog to increase the number of reader to your blog.

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davidsu

Banned 12 years ago

The biggest benefit from Paid Traffic:
1. you could see the result in short time
2. scalable
ex: spend $ 2 you get $4, so you know that if you spend $4, you'll get $8 in sales.

It's easy to scale

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WinstonTian

12 years ago

Originally Posted by khanhkunt

I have a big question unresolved

Don't mind me, but I'm really blunt
with this. I won't give you BS and
theories. You can resolve your worry
now because I can tell for a fact
that...

Paid Traffic is the road to five, six
figures and beyond!

If you're not making money, that's
an even larger reason why you
shouldn't be doing anything else
but trying to make paid traffic
work for you.

But you need the correct path,
and the correct math to do it... Or
you'll start losing money instead.

IMO, paid traffic CAN be free, if you
know how to invest properly and
set up the funnel correctly.

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enavagate

12 years ago

Originally Posted by WinstonTian

Don't mind me, but I'm really blunt
with this. I won't give you BS and
theories. You can resolve your worry
now because I can tell for a fact
that...

Paid Traffic is the road to five, six
figures and beyond!

If you're not making money, that's
an even larger reason why you
shouldn't be doing anything else
but trying to make paid traffic
work for you.

But you need the correct path,
and the correct math to do it... Or
you'll start losing money instead.

IMO, paid traffic CAN be free, if you
know how to invest properly and
set up the funnel correctly.

I agree paid traffic can be free, but it's also very true you need the correct path. Sometimes the learning curve can be painful on the pocket book so if you are going down that path at least stay focused and learn it. We are at this to make money not line Google's pockets.

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larry1113

12 years ago

Originally Posted by khanhkunt

Hi all,
I have a big question unresolved :confused:. That is how to generate traffic for web/blog?
I wonder between 2 methods: paid and free. You choose which method? How and why?
Thanks for the advice of everyone,
khanhkunt

Hey bud,

Paid traffic all day. Let me explain why. There's really no such thing as "free traffic" because "free traffic" uses up your time. And you're time is money. Seriously.

SEO nowadays is DEFINITELY not a free source of traffic. If you want to be competitive in SEO you can bet your ass that you're going to need paid tools or assistants.

After you realize this, it's just a matter of looking at your own personality. For me, I'm the type of person that likes to see quicker responses to my actions i.e. place an ad and get traffic.

And I don't treat paid traffic as paid traffic because if you set up a backend correctly, you can break even.

Ex. You spend $100 on paid traffic to a squeeze page. You make 5 sales at $20 a piece. Guess what you just got all your leads for free.

And now you have a list a.k.a. an instant source of traffic for the future.

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SergeMonrois

12 years ago

It depends of your budget. If you have a lot of "free" money , and your blog is not for profit, then, of course, you can pay for traffic to attract readers fast.

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JudyKarmann

12 years ago

They say free traffic is good when you don't have enough money and lots of free time. For serious people there is no option but paid traffic.

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elexmedia

12 years ago

If your blog haven't generated any revenue yet, you better to use Free Traffic for your blog/ web.

Paid traffic is perfect to use if you have an ecommerce/ online store website.
Why?
You could get traffic and sales immediately. Unlike free traffic, you do not need to wait to see the traffic rolls in.
Also paid traffic is easy to scale up. Example: spend $2 in PPC, you get $4 in revenue. Just double the PPC spending, and you'll get 200% revenue increase easily.

For me, I always vote for Paid Traffic. You could see the results immediately.

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Muhsin Aziz

12 years ago

Spend some cash each month on paid traffic.
At the same time, work on free traffic for 1 -2 hours everyday.
The thing about free traffic is, you gotta be consistent.
But paid traffic is predictable & scalable & can help to build your business fast.
So I would suggest you do both but focus more on paid traffic.

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trafficmasters

12 years ago

You need money to go paid - but the advantage is you can send targeted traffic from day 1 of your website being launched - then any profits you earn place them into long term white hat SEO in order to guarantee success

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bizopp71

12 years ago

Listen, forget all the technical nonsense. I am about results! I have gotten sales/conversions from free traffic and paid traffic sources. This is no lie. You must test different markets using your common sense. I currently have found repeat customers from a free advertising source! What i did is say to myself, 'what ways would i find a product or service i need, or be made AWARE of a product or service that might interest me?' Thats it. No scientific formula just common sense. So i experiment with different ad/promo/SEO sources and see what works out. That's how i stay in business with whatever ventures i involve myself in!

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The Star

12 years ago

better use of free traffic that SEO for your blog, do it slowly. If you are serious about doing it then it'll be a success.

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Kal Sallam

12 years ago

Paid traffic hands down, I only started to make some serious money when I used paid traffic.
I spent lots of time studying and testing, but it paid off tremendously! so I say its worth it.

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jamesrich1

12 years ago

Paid traffic will require you to know the conversions of your site. How much is it to obtain a lead? How much to obtain a customer? How long do you retain a customer? What are your upsell percentages? What is your average customer worth? How long through your autoresponder does it take on average before a subscriber buys anything? What is your average EPC? These questions will help you determine how much you can spend per click on paid advertising. I suggest both paid and free but definitely approach free with the intent of building a reputation of giving away massive value.

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bibs

12 years ago

I can't say much about paid traffic. But for blogs, it's better to use free traffic. Have the time to search for other blogs and leave a comment...with substance of course.

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LilBlackDress 12 years ago

If you do opt to use Paid Traffic, make sure you clearly understand what you are doing as you can burn thru a lot of money pretty fast with nothing to show for it.
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OBVA VirtualAssistants

12 years ago

First you have to try with free ones that you can really try to work out. Those are like posting your blog in directories, forums, social media sites like Facebook, twitter, Google + and also leave comment on other blog posts with your URL.

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