Is generating traffic a steady process or a one-time thing?

A steady process that sticks. Following your friends advice might get you lots of traffic quickly, but will it be buying traffic and that traffic could disappear just as quickly.

hi aldentan
What I think is whether you get the traffic progressively or by explosion, you should do all you can to keep the traffic. Progressive traffic is good because that's the kind of traffic you can maintain. By building it progressively means you gradually build a solid presence and impose trust. People discover you gradually and begin to like what you offer.

When it comes to blogging, I have two "authority" blogs, where I see traffic rising each and every day. But these types of blogs take time and effort. The content has to be, in Seth Godin's words "remarkable" and there is a time factor involved with interacting with other bloggers, twittering, facebooking, leaving comments on other blogs in similar niches and guest blogging.

I also have been creating many 30 - 40 page minisites since 2007, which I promote in an entirely different way that I do for the Authority blogs. This is done with a variety of automated tools and outsourced link builders.

With the authority blogs, I find that traffic and links increases without any type of promotion due to the nature of the content on these blogs but the minisites is different. I continually need to promote them, then I will back off a bit to see how they hold rank for a variety of keywords, if the do, then I do more link building on up and coming minisites. If they start dropping in rankings when I stop the promotion I immediately continue the promotion process.

So generating traffic really depends on your business model and the source of traffic you are using.

How to get repid traffic for my website?

Generating traffic is an ongoing process that usually takes time. You can always speed up the time it takes by using paid traffic like PPC. The general rule of thumb is the more money you can spend, the faster you can get traffic. The less money you have to spend, the slower the process will be.

That said, there are ways to work smarter (not harder). As you build up your traffic, your site will take on a life of it's own as you leverage the time and effort you've already invested. Syndicating your content and leveraging your social networks will help you get the traffic you need and reach that "tipping point" much sooner than you would otherwise.

I'm pre-launching my new business this fall (and launching officially in January), so I'm heavily focused on traffic and list-building right now. And I've found some tremendous resources:

1. Kim Roach's Traffic Dashboard

This is a great, yet inexpensive course ($39) on generating your first 1,000-3,000 subscribers in 30 days. I highly recommend it.

Also, check out her blog post: » 21 Steps to 1,000 Visitors Per Day

2. Ana Hoffman's Traffic Generation Cafe | Generate Targeted Website Blog Traffic

I can't recommend this site enough! I just discovered it last week and I'm SO IMPRESSED with all of the information she provides.

A word to the wise:

Before you run off and stay up all day and all night working to generate traffic, make sure you're super clear on WHO your target market is and that you have a clear plan and process in place for building your list once the traffic arrives. (No sense in spending all that time and effort driving traffic for nothing!)

Once you're really clear on your business and how you'll build your list, pick 4-5 of the BEST traffic strategies for your business/niche and just focus on those. Successful people often say that success is just a matter of doing a few things over and over again. It's too easy to jump from one thing to the next with no focus -- and no results.

If you're starting from scratch, you might employ a bunch of traffic strategies to build your seed list and get off the ground. Once you've done that though, just focus on 4-5 and do those over and over again.

Hope that helps!

Michelle

It should be a steady process, at the same time make your current regular visitors come back time and time again.

Thanks for the replies guys. A friend told me something insightful too, "It's not about how much, it's how fast you want it."

Generating traffic can be a one time activity if you find the right person to outsource your traffic generation too. However, finding the right person, service, process requires an ongoing process, learning, failure and experimentation. In addition, there is the obvious financial cost associated with outsourcing.

Any way you look at, the process will take time and consistent action.

Its about steady and repeat traffic.

If your blog stands out from the rest then eventually you get that many repeat and happy visitors that linkbuilding is pretty much taken care of for you from your visitors.

They will bookmark content and point there friends towards it, alot might favourite the site, talk about it ion forums ect and there you go lots of happy repeat visitors and new daily visits.

Social sites are excellent to use for increasing traffic of the websites hence the type of the site always decide the amount of the traffic you are going to get. So we cannot judge the steady pace or a fast pace of a traffic in a site

To follow up on what AlexSid said, the type of site makes all the difference. I have a blog that I create a post on pretty much everyday. The site has had a few explosions in traffic, but that was generally when one of my posts was really, really popular or one of my keywords went golden (first page of Google).

Otherwise, it has been steady, yet almost always growing. I have only had 2 months where traffic stalled or declined in the past 18 months.

Other sites, I do not care if I use automated tools on, because I have not spent nearly as much time. I would gladly blast a site that is new and looks shaky with backlinks to see how it works. If it does work then I am more confident on using it on other sites. If it does not then at least it was a site I spent a lot of time on.

Create guinea pig sites where you do not care what happens to them. It makes life a lot easier on the other sites.

Hope that helps.

Yes, steady process. Sometimes it is very tiring, sometimes it is fun. You have to work on the fun part. Trust me.

I'll keep this simple for you aldenton:

If you want steady traffic
I recommend these four things:

1. Create High Value Content (stuff your readers don't get anywhere else.)
2. Blog Often (check out this post)
3. Guest Post and become friend with other leaders in your niche
4. Build a subscriber base - preferably via email (check out this post)

Traffic, whether online or offline is a must. The goal for any business
is to have perpetual highly targeted traffic

There are millions of ways to get traffic. Paid advertising with Adwords/7Search or any other PPC/PPV campaign. Submit your site to stumbleupon.com, share it on facebook/twitter, answer relevant questions to your niche on Yahoo! Answers and link back to your page, I mean the list goes on and on.