Well, if you're asking about free traffic, I think forums & blog commenting are the most effective.
But as for paid, solo ads are the best with the best value and cost!

Besides, You cannot rely on always being top of Google, because algorithms are changing all the time!
So anybody would better build a list to ensure evergreen business!

You Tube and blogging is getting me the most traffic right now.

1. Youtube
2. Yahoo Answers
3. Forums
4. Google

If I could figure a way to stay at top of Google without spending an arm and a leg...that would be dyn-o-mite!

My most successful traffic generation has been Twitter.

But I go about it a different way....I look for posts where I can help others...when I tell them I have a solution to that problem and put my link they almost ALWAYS click on it which in turns gets their other followers to click on it

Manny

Some really great info - thanks to everyone who has contributed.

Do you do ad-swaps? Or just buy solos?

Sometimes I find it a little saturated or water down traffic......

Got to ask the question, how many lists are they on?

PPC is my best traffic source, Laser targeted traffic.

Over the last 6 years, Google has been my biggest traffic source.

Right now... seo.

Solo ad and adswaps have become my favorite sources of traffic :-)

I've since given up on SEO as it takes too much time to rank, and too long to make money with it :-)

The best online traffic source you will find are other people who will refer your product or service themselves and are credible in the niche you are targeting.

My best source of traffic now is Google but a close second is press releases.

My list.

Other traffic sources fluctuate, but my list is the only source that's grown steadily over the past 10 years.

I'm not being sarcastic, this is the truth.

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Solo ads are great for paid traffic. If you can, rank your site to Number 1 on Google, will definitely bring a lot of free traffic. Youtube is also a great source.

for me it is facebook hands down. I post links to articles on my blog and special offers in my webstore, and I get loads of hits. Especially right now we have a great offer for customers, and I am finding it is getting shared with others, so great! I pay for a few ads occasionally as well ,but not often

My offline ads are converting the best for me right now.

1. Infographic creation and syndication
2. Social Media Branding
3. Yahoo Answers posting
are the best traffic sources for us at this moment.
Infographics are not only proven to be the best in increasing the traffic to your website, but also play a very important role in ultimate brand exposure.

Social Media Branding, The key social media marketing strategy that makes your business present in all the social media spots opening opportunity for your customers/ clients to spread your brand.

Blogging has been a traffic source for me that branches off other sources.

I get both organic AND social traffic to my blog just by having it optimized as well as sharing it through social syndication.

I have some automated tools for this, but at the end of the day, I get most of my traffic from content based marketing.

I don't think you can get much traffic directly from Scribd and other pdf sharing sites. But yes they will help your website from SEO point of view.

And I agree with many other members here that Yahoo Answering has been one of the best sources for my websites as well.

Other than this, traditional SEO always help immensely. So always invest your time to build quality backlinks back to your site.

Google search is best so far...
Followed by Facebook and referral traffic.

Hey man great question!

My single best FREE traffic source right now is forums, really awesome traffic really responsive and pretty fast actually.

My single best PAID traffic resource right now is FREE WSO's, It used to be solo ads until I understood the "quality" of solo ads compared to other traffic sources.

However, I'm still buying solo ads here and there

Inflolinks + Fb ads are doing me 400% + ROI .

StumbleUpon

paid traffic is the best if you can afford it

I have a videobased site that get a lot of trafic from StumbleUpon. Not just a few peaks but steady ~400 a day.

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Solo ads for sure but its expensive, but paid traffic such as PPC and PPV

Email, without a doubt.

One email pulled a nice $800 day yesterday.

The occasional ad swap with another list owner in the same niche. Not too often so as not to "turn off" my subscribers so to speak. Builds the list, gets fast traffic, other spin-offs too.

Best,

Andy.

I don't know much about Solo Ads but i don't like to get traffics by paid otherwise we don't know that's are coming targeted traffics or nor, When you optimize blog with pure seo it would be great to generate freaky traffics Maybe there is a different link building methods to build backlinks to your site, Blog commenting on high PR Blogs, Submitting articles to the article directories, RSS Submit directories, social bookmarking and creating web 2.0 sites and link back to your main site or post. Quality is better than Quantity

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For me it's probably my IM blog because i do nothing to manually generate traffic except just create new content but i have been doing this over a few years so it doesn't happen overnight

I now build my list on auto-pilot from my blog and the quality of the subscribers are always pre conditioned too because they came from my personal IM blog :-)

Tagged.com for me

For me forums and Facebook are working great

What works best for me is through blog commenting.

Awesome tread. I use traffic exchanges as a way to get traffic to my sites. I have been doing it for years. I owned on manual traffic exchange for 8 years. Sold it and started 3 auto traffic exchanges. All are doing great.

My top 3 source is always Google Organic , Google CPC and Newsletter send with Email Marketing .

I'm still go with the best google organic which always bring me huge traffic and highest conversion rate compare to my second and third source of generate traffic. I'm been posting lot of blogs, article , review , directories and social media. Nothing bring me traffic best than google organic .

Best advise on where to get traffic is Google.

Be patient when doing your SEO so that you don't get slapped.

On the other hand, build a list, do social media marketing and use all other white hat methods so that in case you get slapped you still have some traffic.

Look out for someone called Jeff Johnson or Ana Hoffman. They have some great stuff on traffic.

I get lots of traffic from facebook. I make it a key part of my recruitment process for readers. It works. The key is to get a critical mass going.

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1.Google
2.Pinterest
3.Tumblr
4.AOL



Just kidding about AOL

As far as free traffic goes, forum marketing is the best in my opinion. It really is free, and you can get good results even when you don't put that much effort on it. Video marketing and social media marketing are good too, though I don't have much experience in those methods yet.

I suppose it depends on the speed and accuracy of delivery.

In no particular importance of order:

1. PPC

2. Solo Ads

3. Blog Comments

4. Videos

5. Blogging

6. Articles

These combined are going to give you some massive momentum to carry through to the next stages of your online business and allowing you to FREE up your time and outsource most of the tasks within your business.

Hope these help anyone here at the great and wonderful W.F.



"Failure is an absolute prerequisite for success. You learn to succeed by failing."

Youtube and email marketing

Very interesting, thanks for sharing

My autoblogs.

Surprisingly, dressing up in a Santa Suit and standing on a highway waving a sign, is currently my biggest lead generator at the moment.

Google and word of mouth.

I want to make it so that Google is the smallest proportion of my traffic, that´s a job in progress. A job I will be asking for help on very shortly :-)

Returning Visitors!

Never felt better about traffic. They are coming from different sources but none of those sources can be called as best source. While search engines are working this month, youtube is working in the next month.

#1 is Google search
#2 is Youtube

Back in the 90's it was Yahoo, but that is only a trickle now.

Social media is no longer a good provider and they always had poor conversion.

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It has to be PPC and search engines for me right now.

It's still Google for me...which keeps me up at night. That's why I'm always experimenting with every source out there.

My best traffic sources:
Apps
Free traffic from affiliates

Thanks for letting us know about triberr, never heard of it.

Social networking and social bookmarking are great ways to get traffic, but you need to get popular accounts.

For me it is all about forums and blogging!

A combination of SEO retargeting and my email lists !

Depending what your services and products are, Craigslist.org might be one of the best targeted resources. It sure has brought us paying customers.

I have used craigslist before - It can work very well.

well, it depends on what you focus. I have seen people succeed with different types of traffic (seo, ppc...) just find your way

For me personally email list traffic & video marketing right now. Forum posting and blog commenting also works well when I do it.

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Facebook Ads, Google Adwords

I have been finding that youtube is giving me extremely targeted traffic. The visitors that are coming from watching videos view the most pages and stay the longest.

Solo ads, PPV, and Twitter

Video Marketing with YouTube has worked wonderes for me over the years.

The single best traffic source is Search Engines.

I run a UK based dental site and am looking to increase traffic. Where can I buy some solo ads? Also what is the cheapest source of traffic?

Usually Free Traffic is most targeted and qualified.
However, it take more time to generated.

My favorite is Forum Marketing because
1. direct,
2. free
3. learn while you generate leads.

I get a lot of traffic from facebook and stumbleupon after google search

My List by far. Mail daily and replenish with the occasional launch.

1) Google+ AND local search directories like yelp/yellow pages/yahoo/bing.
2) Youtube videos that rank in top 3 of google.
3) Daily automated posting on craigslist.

Cant believe this thread is still going.... What I have to say is recently I have joined some FB groups and they are bringing in great traffic.

Still probably top is Solos and my own list though....

I disagree. My paid advertising methods are my best traffic sources by far.

Here are a list of the best traffic sources I use myself to drive traffic to my sites and find they are all very trageted

- Organic Search Engine (Takes longer but lasts longer too)
- Forums
- Social Media
- Bookmarking
- Blog Comments

For me it's SEO (especially traffic from yandex which is very easy to get if you know russian)

In my opinion, Blogs drive the traffic most. Then Forums, Social bookmarking, Classifieds, Social media are also important to drive traffic to our site..
But regularly these things should be updated.

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Exclusive Online Mega Store for Students

If you want a targeted traffic, you should start prepare some capital to spend. I suggest you to use solo ads, find a good solo ads in WF. I know some people that can offer you a cheap but good solo ads. While doing it, don't forget to keep track the progress of each successful and failed solo ads. It will help your site go viral for a while when you need it.

for me always blogging 'content is king' always. but for laser targeted traffics we should use some good seo strategy or else let outsourcer to do rest of the seo things.

i dont know how.solo ads are working.

Great ideas, but I wonder why some of you did not know this simple strategy of driving thousand of traffic to your site everyday without doing anything and it is Google Adsense free. In face I got over 400% of my current traffic the second day I tested it. I am still using it now and it works. Read it here: How to get boost of Google Adsense Safe Traffic everyday to yous site - Blogging - Online Webmasters Forum

I used to get good traffic from google, but come the panda and penguin updates, everything turned sour.

I guess paid solo ads really are the way to go. It's expensive for a reason.

what is Triberr???

I like Hubpages.

Deffinetly my list, super dependable and active

SEO particularly Google search engine..

Best traffic source for me is definitely: solo ads

Google ads for those who still has an adwords account not being shut down.
Especially I recommend go for image ads. It works like magic.
Google is not as tough with banner ads, and you can get really good and cheap traffic this way.

PPV has not worked out for me. I lost money with leadimpact which is considered #2 PPV network

regards Hans

Organic SEO. Just comes down to knowing what to rank for and how to do it effectively

Solo ads and forum marketing as of right now.

Single best traffic source for what? For jokes and giggles? For hot leads? For ready to buy visitors?

Generally

1. Youtube
2. Adwords
3. SEO (Google Traffic)
4. Banners
5. Solo Ad

1. forums
2. LinkedIn
3. docs sharing sites

Affiliates are byfar my biggest source of traffic right now.

I know it sounds ridiculous but I drive traffic from my tumblr account. You see, I have Amazon product that targeted for anyone who love inspiring image and photos. So, I just have to try how far can I go with tumblr. The result is overwhelming, I get 1000 unique visitor from my 800 follower. Life is good.

what about mobile ads ?

i think seo is a good source of trafic, the only thing is that you should have a lot of wesites, or maybe an authority website will do the trick, plus the backlinks to the website

I will focus most of my time on driving traffic to my website so that I will be able to build my own list of subscribers. When I have my own list, I will be able to have full control of where I want the traffic to go . I personally feel that this is the best traffic source.

I am all about "free" and shockingly enough, my biggest source of traffic is Twitter. And I fought that one for a long time. I still don't really understand it. I never visit sites I see in Tweets, but apparently others do. =)

My biggest traffic source are my tumblr autoblogs.

My best free traffic source for my detox site is now from Pinterest.

My traffic has doubled since I created my account late last year.

Sandy

I get traffic from YouTube and Google mainly. One of my sites gets loads of traffic from feedreader.com that's nice :-)

I have found eBay as a good starting point for generating traffic to my own sites.

Direct traffic at this point. Used to be Google/organic, but now it's the second best. Google/referral is doing well too. Then Yahoo and Bing.

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Might sound weird but mine have been:

Quora.com

and

My fiverr gigs as well as some social media buys I've done on fiverr.

I'm currently nearing 2000 followers in my G+ circle.

Did about 730 in a 30 day experiment.

The other 1270 folks....Not a darn thing.

Fiverr, is perfect for traffic...not necessarily buying gigs, but posting your gigs.

You can have up to 20 of them so...why not?

Anyways, my two ways, however I believe strongly in the axiom:

Its easier to find 100 ways to find one customer than it is to find one way to find 100 customers.

Its always good to be prolific.

My two pennies and some pocket lint.

Regards

Los

Facebook traffic

use social media sites like facebok or twitter.

Google (Organic)

FB fans page
for me.

I just love document sharing for free traffic and infolinks for paid traffic

Thanks for posting this banx63, I learned a lot just by reading everyone's response!

forums i think are the best way

A mix between solo ads and Facebook marketing.

Free Facebook marketing, not paid ads.

Stumbleupon is the best source if used correctly

I would have to say for me my best traffic comes from Forum Signatures.

I get traffic from YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Google +, even MySpace and Tagged.

Also, from solo ads, USFreeAds, banner ads, forum posting, guest blogging, scribd, auto-blogs connected to Twitter accounts, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Tumblr blogs set up to auto-post and auto-Tweet, Backpage, CL, OLX dot com and some offline ads in weekly papers.

1. SEO
2. Youtube
3. Solo ads/my email list

I only use free traffic. I use Facebook and SlideShare with great success.

Steve

PPC => list

Good quality content

Forums.

Commenting on high PR blogs.

Forum and blog posts are good to improve your rankings and hence exposure to traffic. For driving traffic I suggest solo ads

My list, SEO, and press releases have gotten me the most traffic.

Wow!! What a great thread.....I learned alot just from reading the posts

Question: How does Youtube generate traffic?

Solo ads & Blog and lately Facebook

Google (organic) and a couple feeder sites that also get organic traffic.

Thanks a lot to everybody for great contribution, learn a lot about different sources some I didn't even know they existed.

My best traffic source is social media websites. I am getting a huge amount of traffic from social media websites. After social media I am getting traffic from forum and blog commenting.

you tube and solo ads.

Targeted traffic campaigns, forum posting, youtube, craigslist and PPC

mine is referrals.

I wrote an incredible e-book that provides more value than anything else out there, and I set up a package in my affiliate tools where my affiliates can generate a copy of the e-book with their affiliate links, and give the e-book away to their followers, email lists, blogs, websites, or wherever else, in my biggest source traffic is people finding that e-book and sharing it with others.

I realized that starting by adding value to others lives, providing greater value than anyone else, in earning their trust, they would naturally want to buy whatever products I offered, without much skepticism, as long as I treated my customers the way I would want to be treated myself.

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