What Is Your Best Traffic Generation Method?

by lonfore Banned
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Just thinking how people are driving traffic to their sites? I myself use facebook and I am pretty impressed with my method. I can drive almost 1k traffic to my site using my facebook group and I think this is nowadays the best site for manual traffic drive. But I tried Yahoo answer and really crushed!! Do you think facebook is now the best traffic source?

Lets share your traffic source with newbies like me.
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  • Profile picture of the author jeff09
    Any new site, Adword will drive good targeted traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    IMO niche forums trump any social network considering traffic is pre-qualified by signing up for a niche forum they're interested in, with social sites like Twitter or FB, traffic doesn't have to do anything other than have a social account.
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    • Profile picture of the author lonfore
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      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      IMO niche forums trump any social network considering traffic is pre-qualified by signing up for a niche forum they're interested in, with social sites like Twitter or FB, traffic doesn't have to do anything other than have a social account.
      Yeah I fully agree with you. Thats why SN traffic dont convert good. However I was thinking about niche forums but just one thing making me worried. As google nowadays dont like forum backlinks so if I use 4 or 5 niche forums for direct traffic I might end up with a Spammy Backlink notice from google? Even if I dont use anchor texts for the backlinks?
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by lonfore View Post

        Yeah I fully agree with you. Thats why SN traffic dont convert good. However I was thinking about niche forums but just one thing making me worried. As google nowadays dont like forum backlinks so if I use 4 or 5 niche forums for direct traffic I might end up with a Spammy Backlink notice from google? Even if I dont use anchor texts for the backlinks?
        I've been doing this for 6 years (same niche forum links) & never had a problem with Google SERPs or even Google/Adsense. Google's pretty smart about relevant links/traffic, IMO there's no possible way Google can say a same niche backlink is spammy.

        The folks you have to be careful with is not spamming a forum or a forum Mod will usually shut you down (on the best niche forums), that's easily fixed by creating useful comments on the niche forums & having a legit website, not something like a squeeze page, MFA, Amazon doorway page, etc...
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  • Profile picture of the author PROmotions LLC
    Just utilizing social media, and sticking your face where your desired targets hangout is a good way too. Join a couple forums in your niche and start being active in that online community, share insightful posts and threads that will build you a reputation, eventually, people will start reading your posts thinking, hey, so and so knows their stuff, before you know it you are getting a rush of traffic from your signature, or a link you posted.
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  • Profile picture of the author seekdefo
    Getting traffic with facebook is a good idea but facebook tends to hide the updates, so start building your list with facebook and then you are safe. At the same time your group will grow too. I have been building fan pages for my herbs site and the users remain active only for some days. If I send them updates via email they always come back to me. If you can't afford a premium one like aweber go for mailchimp or use amazon sendy that costs just a $1 for 10k mails
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  • Profile picture of the author Hansons
    For me, forums work good, but you have to use only quality forums for better result, quality and high traffic forum participation is good for getting targeted visitors to your website.
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  • Profile picture of the author neha12
    I think SEO, SMO and advertising all are best way to get traffic on website. But there SEO is time taking job and SMO , Advertisement are for instant result.
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    • Profile picture of the author ankitoberoi
      Originally Posted by neha12 View Post

      But there SEO is time taking job
      Time taking, it is.
      But well worth the effort, over the longer term.

      I wonder why no one mentioned Guest posts on this thread so far. Write very well researched (with a minimum 30-40 hour research going in it) articles (2200+ words) on a popular niche blogs.

      You get a lot of immediate traffic, you build authority (as a brand and in SEs).
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      • Profile picture of the author neha12
        Originally Posted by ankitoberoi View Post

        Time taking, it is.
        But well worth the effort, over the longer term.

        I wonder why no one mentioned Guest posts on this thread so far. Write very well researched (with a minimum 30-40 hour research going in it) articles (2200+ words) on a popular niche blogs.

        You get a lot of immediate traffic, you build authority (as a brand and in SEs).
        Yes no doubt. It's beneficial for long term.

        But, now a days everyone expecting results soon. So, according to me peoples should focus on both short term and long term if website and business is new.
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  • Profile picture of the author coolomi
    It depends upon the time and resources, If you want instant traffic then you must go for PPC or Paid sources of getting traffic, otherwise SEO is the best choice to get traffic for long time, but it is time taking process.
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  • Profile picture of the author lonfore
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    Thanks Yukon for confirming me.

    Your six years of experienced result I learned by just posting a thread. Really awesome.
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  • Profile picture of the author webwizdevelop
    So far me forum signature and forum post links are the most effective way to get traffic to my blog and i really love the way traffic is following
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  • Profile picture of the author seoace
    Bing Ads is working out the best for me in terms of the quality of traffic & cost of it.

    Other traffic source I'm trying out are Linkedin, Twitter & Forums.
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  • Profile picture of the author lonfore
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    I listened sweet words about stumbleupon but never tried it. Whats your experience with SU?
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    • Profile picture of the author Aussie_Al
      Originally Posted by lonfore View Post

      I listened sweet words about stumbleupon but never tried it. Whats your experience with SU?
      You can get some great traffic via stumbleupon but sometimes the quality isn't great (eg: high bounce rates)
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  • Profile picture of the author patco
    I personally prefer SEO for a long-term... Otherwise, I could use Twitter to drive hundreds of visitors per day, but it tooks some hours of work to do this and it only lasts a few days, while SEO could help you get visitors for a few years!
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  • Profile picture of the author lonfore
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    I have noticed Search Engine traffic are better than Social Network Traffic as SE traffic conversion rate is high than SN traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author smileverse
    SEO is the most popular way to bring traffic. But it's a long-term plan.
    You can also consider Social Media and Google Adwords
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    • Profile picture of the author Hansons
      Originally Posted by smileverse View Post

      SEO is the most popular way to bring traffic. But it's a long-term plan.
      You can also consider Social Media and Google Adwords
      Of course, SEO gives long term traffic and benefit there is no doubt to it. But there is lots of ups-downs in SEO thats why people look for alternative methods for getting visitors to their sites, also traffics would help in SEO too.
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  • Profile picture of the author ShivJaiswaL
    hello friend, here are proven tips for quick traffic generation

    (1) SMO ie. social media like twitter facebook etc.
    (2) free traffic tools like http://traffic-generator.ezmlm.org/
    (3) forum posting, bookmarking, from good sites like bizsugar, digg, delicious etc
    (4) search engines are best for relevant traffic.

    thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author lonfore
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    I have started the thread to share experience on great traffic mines WFMs know so that we can learn from each other. But it seems everyone is giving advices to me!!
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  • Profile picture of the author Raimundas M
    If it's free traffic, then I always go with the "set and forget" sources like:

    SEO
    Youtube
    pdf/doc submissions

    The more you seed - the more traffic you get.
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    • Profile picture of the author lonfore
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      Originally Posted by Raimundas M View Post

      If it's free traffic, then I always go with the "set and forget" sources like:

      SEO
      Youtube
      pdf/doc submissions


      The more you seed - the more traffic you get.
      Well I have a supplementary question.. Are You Really Getting Traffic Via pdf/doc submissions? If so then would you mint to share your experience with us?
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  • Profile picture of the author Theeban
    Of course Facebook and other social medias like Twitter, pinterest drive good traffic.

    Other than that, getting links from relevant forums and other high traffic areas - may be helpful on getting referral traffic

    Anyhow, for me, traffic from Google is always great and more - I have some fun blogs, and I didn't do much SEO, but content is lengthy and target long tail keywords, getting good traffic...

    Important thing of Search engines' traffic is, that traffic can be easily can be converted into new business - Because, if people really want something, they will search on search engines and mostly ready to buy the thing that they are searching.... such thing may be a bit lack in terms of referral traffic (but of course there are exceptional cases too)
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  • Profile picture of the author rakesh1600193
    Just traffic is not important , relevant traffic is most important, that is organic traffic.
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