The best traffic source for newbie

by vashet
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Hi guys,

Only recently I came across this forum and I can see this is a powerful source of knowledge. I turn to you with a few questions which may sound basic to you, but for me can be very helpful.

I run a website in Forex niche. I'm offering free analysis and great forex system. Everything is available for free, all you have to do is to register.

I want to start with e-mail marketing soon, but I don't know where to look for traffic. Can you recommend 1-2 best traffic sources? (PPC? if yes, then which one?).
I posted links and analysis to my website on forex forums already, but most people simply do not believe anything can be given for free, so the traffic is pretty low.

Any tips will be much appreciated.

Best regards
V.
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  • Profile picture of the author Borys Kurachenko
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Meaney
    Youtube can be a goldmine if you do it right.

    Facebook is quick and easy, that's my go-to place when testing or I want traffic quickly.
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  • Profile picture of the author techwizard
    You can use use facebook . but don't invest too much in it . People don't want to buy when the'yre scrolling on FB . Gather few followers, try to post engaging content , then start advertising .
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve B
    Originally Posted by vashet View Post

    Can you recommend 1-2 best traffic sources?

    Which sources are best for you will depend upon where your targeted prospects can be found.

    If you just put your ads up on a random site without targeting, your conversion will be extremely low and probable lose you money. You want to market at venues where Forex prospects can be found in great concentrations. Or, target specific keywords that match what you are going to offer. Often, the best places to market are authority sites in the niche. You can discover those by doing market research.

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  • Profile picture of the author jinmin
    Facebook advertising is a good option to get started as it can be learned and picked it up fast. Start small by targeting your audience. Try different age groups, location, gender, etc to see which one converts best and add more budget to the profitable segment.
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  • Profile picture of the author Josh Mayers
    V . . awesome post man!

    If I were you, I'd link up with people who have sold similar services/products in the past.

    OR

    I'd do a search for some Forex newsletters that collect emails to see if I could workout a possible solo ad blast to leverage their subscribers.

    Just my two cents, but I hope this certainly helps!

    Good luck on your ventures in the Forex niche!

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  • Profile picture of the author randyman
    Depends on your budget.

    If your budget is low (or zero), you can write content, do guest blogging etc. basically free traffic aka SEO.

    SEO also depends on your keyword. If the competition is low, and you do your homework on keyword research, you can rank easily without spending much.

    If you set your expectation a bit higher (target harder keywords), prepare some decent budget.

    PPC also depends on keyword, some forex keywords have some of unbelievable CPC.

    I'm sorry if it's sounds vague ... but really we can't give specific answer without more information.

    My advice is to have great content on your site and promote it on forums.
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  • Profile picture of the author aizaku
    that's a super expensive keyword to target for PPC...

    go to the cheaper traffic sources and see if you can find a thriving forex community:

    pinterest

    twitter

    Shout outs from a Popular Forex Focused Snapchater

    newer reputable PPV networks

    test and try out.. but stay away from the usual watering holes for now...

    best of luck
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  • Profile picture of the author shaunybb
    Hey there!


    I would focus on YouTube and then when your earning cash!


    Utilize paid ads
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  • Profile picture of the author hellonavjeet
    Honest answer?
    You need to build you website first. I had a look and you have an extremely basic home-page and 4 pretty poor casino review pages.
    For me, Playtech casinos are TERRIBLE for attracting players - and that's all you have.

    Build a big, informative, well laid-out site - wait 6 months and the players will come eventually.
    Sorry, but there's no easy route into making money being an affiliate - it takes a LOT of hard work.

    Good luck.
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  • Profile picture of the author vashet
    Wow! Thank you very much for all the answers, it means a lot to me.

    As for the budget it will be in the range of $200- $300/month, which I quess is not huge for sure.
    Many of you recommend facebook, targeted advertising is great, but I'm not sure if it will be easy in this niche. Same comes with SEO as the competition in 'Forex' is huge, so success here will require not only money but also a lot of time

    I was focused more on PPC, but from what I see it is also based on the popularity of keywords, so it can be hard to break through

    Website is based on the nice wordpress theme, so in this field I think that there is nothing to be ashamed of.

    I think I will start with forums, as I did it in the past, just had not enough patience.
    Twitter, pinterest, snapchat are pretty new to me, need more research.

    Thanks again!
    V.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sekumar
    Hi Vashet,
    Most newbies start out with social media marketing and once done well can be a great source of free traffic, you can use social media management tools like hootsuite to take charge of your marketing. If budget allows, promote on those site.

    Also think of classified as a second option

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  • Profile picture of the author vishwa
    SEO, Guest Posting, Blog commenting, Forum posting, PPC advertising are some of the ways to drive traffic to a blog.
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  • Profile picture of the author Catherine Bueno
    Hello there,

    You can start off with Youtube and Facebook. You can also opt for blogging or guest posting on sites which could be of best use given your chosen niche.

    Good luck!
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    I often used G+, Pinterest, Linkedin...social networks in general.
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  • Profile picture of the author Goyllo
    I don't know why no one mention go with direct advertising. It is forex niche, and it is saturated niche. If you promoting your own product then I will say first go with direct advertising. Search on Google about specific keyword/query and then contact website owner to place your website links for few bucks.

    If you know your product well, and you have low budget then I recom to go with direct/sponsor advertising.

    If you go with Facebook, and Adwords then you will lose your money instantly without getting any conversation. You should have tight budget to promote that kind of niche, otherwise you will not going to get your winning campaign, it's take lot's of testing and optimization.

    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author white war
    Promote yourself on YouTube forums social networks build trust with audience then it will be easy.
    Don't use ppc until your conversion rate is good
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  • Profile picture of the author aidenmia
    There are many ways to increase your website traffic. As your site about the Forex, so you can write relevant blog commenting, There are many Forum posting site regarding the HYIPs or, Forex, there you can make discussion. You can create thread, you can reply any existing thread, even you can use the Social Media site such as Facebook or, some other Social Media sites. I think you can get a good result. Thanks for your advance.
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  • Profile picture of the author KennyAmy
    There are no certainly no BEST traffic sources. It all depends on your business model. For eg: if you are into ecommerce, you might wanna try WANELO, PINTEREST or facebook. It really depends on your business model my man

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  • Profile picture of the author James Clifton
    Email marketing is the best source to interact with your prospects. I would suggest to start with Solo ad for your Forex business. Here is the list of 2 websites for traffic.
    1. www.facebook.com (You can always create a Fan page in your FB account and run ads to drive traffic to your website or landing pages. Facebook Business Manager is the best resource for this. You need to create an ad account using FB Business Manager and or in other words its called "Advert". FB is the number 1 resource these days to get maximum number of REACH, likes and comments with less budget. You can also ramp up the budget when needed.
    2. www.twitter.com (You can use Twitter to create ads. Ads in Twitter work differently than Facebook but you will get good traffic.
    I also suggest to start SEO of your business website. You should also have an opt-in page on your website to capture the leads. I suggest to use Aweber or MailChimp for Email Marketing. I wish you good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author entrepreneurjay
    Medium is another good traffic source that you can check out.
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  • Profile picture of the author vashet
    Thanks for all the answers it helped me a lot.

    I decided to start with Facebook. I have a fanpage already but I don't know how to promote it properly. Paid traffic will come later, as first I want to know how it works and get more familiar with FB.

    Do you think that buying 'likes' on the start will be a good idea? I know it's fake traffic, but website with 2k likes looks better than this with only 20likes.

    I'm posting a valuable content on the regular basis, but I quess it's not enough as I have only few followers. Should I start quest posting on the other related fanpages? Any other ideas?

    V.
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  • Profile picture of the author krees
    PPC is quick traffic. It can be very expensive. Not sure what your budget is. I would try some free methods first.
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  • Profile picture of the author chasetasha
    I would suggest that you find and create posts on forum where they have thread section for hyip and Forex trading..

    Eg.. MoneyMakerGroup ,... Talkgold HYIP, Investment & Money Forum

    Those are just a couple forums but you can find many more.. Just google some keywords that your website or service is base on.. Eg Forex Forum etc

    You can also find groups or individual people on Facebook talking about or promoting Forex..

    I hope that helps..
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  • Profile picture of the author Peter Lee
    I advertise for free using a traffic exchange for members in a business I joined. That business has helped me earned 31K in the last 6 months. If you are interested to know more about this traffic exchange do contact me for the details.
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  • Profile picture of the author cobrasnake
    So many way to do. Recently I have a website and I focus on SEO, social media, make a video, fanpage facebook, post in forum... It is important that you spend your time to work
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  • Profile picture of the author discrat
    I'll chime in and say Bing PPC is a relatively good alternative to Adwords. Definitely


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  • Profile picture of the author Jamel Hassell
    Run a survey get somefeedback run a few tesr and take the time out to see what audience is interested in your service
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  • Profile picture of the author matteomatt
    Look for places where people go to learn forex, such as forums and blogs about it. I am not saying to go and spam these places, but they can be great places to start to build traffic and a reputation.
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  • Profile picture of the author Winnipegtech
    Increase awareness of your expertise with guest posting on all the make money online OR online business blogs OR legitimate income opportunities blogs.

    Show proof of your expertise on the forums. First post your free analysis. Then post actual trade results using that analysis. Do 2-3 trades, then note that if they want more free analysis to sign up to your site.
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  • Profile picture of the author seofreetips
    For newbie guys who have just started I prefer
    a.IF you are looking laser targeted traffic than try forums and quora.
    b.If you are just looking "traffic" then try social media marketing .Don't do it manually .Do it by bot to save time and for best result .
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  • 1) Social sites are the best way to get traffic.
    2) Create business pages with popular on social sites like FB,linked in.
    3) Paid ads on Social networking sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author mogamre
    I think you need to provide more proof that you have consistently made money using forex. Provide several bank account statements of deposits from your broker due to winning trades.
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  • Profile picture of the author Anis Chity
    I think the best ways to gain traffic for your website is to search for the most popular sites with your same niche and leave awesome comments with a link to your website if possible, and try to buy ads on Facebook. hope this helps
    Have a good day!
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  • Profile picture of the author ryanbiddulph
    Blogging.

    Blogging.

    Blogging.

    I am biased V but blogging is the best way for a newbie to drive traffic.

    Here's why: the traffic you drive is TRUSTING traffic. Meaning, instead of focusing on traffic stats/numbers - common newbie mistake - you will learn your niche, share helpful content, build connections with pros, and drive targeted, trusting, engaged traffic to your blog. Which will grow your rep quickly. Which grows your business quickly.

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  • Profile picture of the author JohnVianny
    Start IMMEDIATELY with E-mail Marketing: just set up your squeeze page and offer something new in the forex niche: a strategy, an indicator etc...

    THAN post on forums as free traffic: forex forums are always plenty of people lookin for strategies, etc, just go to DonnaForex, or ForexPeaceArmy etc..

    THAN go to Bing: cheap traffic, cheap leads. Just laser-target.

    Than go to Facebook Ads: just take care on not makin 'big claims' like earn a lot of money, etc, cause their rules are becomin strict.
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    • Profile picture of the author vashet
      Originally Posted by Connann View Post

      Start IMMEDIATELY with E-mail Marketing: just set up your squeeze page and offer something new in the forex niche: a strategy, an indicator etc...

      THAN post on forums as free traffic: forex forums are always plenty of people lookin for strategies, etc, just go to DonnaForex, or ForexPeaceArmy etc..

      THAN go to Bing: cheap traffic, cheap leads. Just laser-target.

      Than go to Facebook Ads: just take care on not makin 'big claims' like earn a lot of money, etc, cause their rules are becomin strict.
      Thanks very much, lot of useful informations!

      Yes, I'm offering very decent trading system, also regular analysis, everything for free of course.

      I can see that quest posting, or even running my own topic on Forex forums can be great source of traffic, the main problem is, that most forums won't allow to do it. I've contacted forex factory, babypips and they say that is not allowed. Donna forum is great, but it's getting much smaller visitors last months, no idea why is that. Peace army may be a good idea.

      I will try Bing soon, I just want to make capturing the leads easier, as maybe my current form (easy registration) is discouraging. Some kind of popup banner when you need to put only your e-mail to get instant download.

      Best regards
      V.
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  • Profile picture of the author bigeguide
    Hello,can you recommend me how to make traffic without money payment?
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  • Profile picture of the author Netway
    Hi,
    If looking for free traffic then social media is the best. Make nice social media profile on all popular social media networks, You will get huge amount traffic from there.

    Here are most popular social networks:

    Facebook
    Twitter
    Pinterest
    Google Plus
    LinkedIn
    Reddit
    Instagram
    MySpace
    Flickr
    Tumblr
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    Lining the demographics of the traffic to your website. PPC is great. I use it for a lot of testing conversions then I find moving things over to say youtube gets me pretty good results.
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  • Profile picture of the author alextrevayne
    Yeah, you definitely want to start with Facebook and youtube.

    Have a good one!
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  • Vashet,

    Originally Posted by vashet View Post

    I want to start with e-mail marketing soon, but I don't know where to look for traffic. Can you recommend 1-2 best traffic sources? Any tips will be much appreciated.
    That'd be too easy -- Nobody with a site in your niche that's getting significant traffic would outright give you their best traffic sources. They don't have any interest in creating more competitors for them out of the army of Internet marketers here. That's why you got mostly generic answers here with what you're asking, i.e. Google Adwords, Youtube, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, etc.

    So, if you want to know the specific traffic sources that are used by heavily trafficked sites in your niche, then you should spy on what they're doing; and

    This means the first thing you need to do is to identify the sites or Web properties of your top competitors. These can be heavily trafficked forex-related blogs, Web forums, social media pages and sites that are offering niche content and promoting popular forex-related products and services, especially those with top ranking pages in Google and Bing for relevant exact match keywords with significant search numbers ...

    Once you have a list of your top competing sites, you can then use SimilarWeb.Com and SpyFu.Com to do the following things:

    1. With these tools, you can identify the specific traffic generation methods that are working well for each of your top competing sites. These include direct traffic, referral traffic, social traffic, organic search traffic and paid search & display traffic;

    2. For sites with significant direct traffic, you can study the things that they're doing to get direct traffic, i.e. Do they have irresistible opt-in offers? Are they offering enticing membership subscriptions? How are their offers and sales funnels crafted?;

    3. For sites with significant referral traffic, you can identify through these tools the exact sites that are driving referral traffic to them. You can then confirm if there are any advertising or content placement opportunities for you in those referring sites;

    4. For sites with significant social traffic, you can identify through these tools the exact social networks that are driving social traffic to them. You can then study their social media pages in those networks and also confirm if there are any advertising or content placement opportunities for you in those social networks;

    5. For sites with significant organic search traffic, you can identify through these tools the exact keywords that they use for their organic SEO campaigns. You can then study the onpage and offsite SEO work that they've done on their sites, and you can then confirm if it would be feasible for you to compete with them for those keywords; and

    6. For sites with significant search & display traffic, you can identify through these tools the exact keywords that they're using for their search & display campaigns in Google Adwords. You can also study how their ads are crafted, especially those with long running ads. You can then confirm if there are advertising opportunities for you in Google Adwords for the same or relevant keywords ...

    Note: You can also use these tools to learn about the traffic generation methods along with the traffic sources of non-competing sites where a significant percentage of your target audience most likely hangs out, especially those with top ranking pages in Google and Bing for laterally relevant keywords with significant search numbers; and

    You can then confirm if there are advertising and content placement opportunities for you in those non-competing sites and their traffic sources. These sites might be heavily trafficked Web forums, blogs, social media pages and so on about laterally relevant niches like investing, bizopps, gambling, etc. -- Just choose popular sites with content, products and services that might be complementary or supplemental to the needs of your target audience when it comes to forex trading ...
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  • Profile picture of the author TouchDownAsia
    Here are some best ways for get traffic for your webpages : -

    1) Post informative stuff with social media profiles. be responsive,active with profiles for get more connections or followers.
    2) Always post unique contents.
    3) Follow others or relevant communities.
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  • Profile picture of the author Cookej2
    Facebook ads are a golden opportunity right now. YouTube can also be very profitable is used correctly. i'll have to post a video on my site about how to promote these avenues.
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  • Profile picture of the author daviseric
    Originally Posted by vashet View Post

    Hi guys,

    Only recently I came across this forum and I can see this is a powerful source of knowledge. I turn to you with a few questions which may sound basic to you, but for me can be very helpful.

    I run a website in Forex niche. I'm offering free analysis and great forex system. Everything is available for free, all you have to do is to register.

    I want to start with e-mail marketing soon, but I don't know where to look for traffic. Can you recommend 1-2 best traffic sources? (PPC? if yes, then which one?).
    I posted links and analysis to my website on forex forums already, but most people simply do not believe anything can be given for free, so the traffic is pretty low.

    Any tips will be much appreciated.

    Best regards
    V.
    Best traffic sources are social media channels. Start with your circle and invite them to send your site details to their circle. Its easy, cheaper, safe and fast. Regards, Davis- magsstore
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  • Profile picture of the author chemtechguru
    The best traffic source for a newbie? Let 'em loose in a traffic exchange like Traffic Swarm where they can see a whole wack load of opportunities and programs.

    Nothing like diving right into the deep end lol!
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  • Profile picture of the author pontom
    I still think that make magazine about some "sub-forex" niche, create great posts and promote them on the right places is better way than buy cold traffic to the offers. This can make fun & money for years..
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  • Profile picture of the author Edwin Torres
    For forex... try releasing YouTube tutorials giving people advice/tips and then linking them to a squeeze page. Look into Frank Kern's results in advance strategy.
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  • Profile picture of the author celente
    bing for paid

    free insta, facebook twitter,

    but millionaires i know do not use sm, FB, & free articles, and videos, they use paid traffic and build email lists.

    This post here to the right person is worth $200k - $300k in 2017.

    but I said for the "right person"
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  • Profile picture of the author customerblast
    My favorite source of traffic is definitely facebook ads and youtube video commercials at the moment!
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  • Profile picture of the author Anis Chity
    Keep writing quality articles everyday! just keep writing and writing with proper keyword research, google will send you organic and targetted traffic.

    Making Youtube videos is a good option too.
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  • Profile picture of the author VidasVegas
    Best traffic source is a SOLO ads if want to get a targeted traffic to your offers.
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