What is the best Traffic technique working for you?

I make around $7,500 / month from PPV & POF paid advertising.

$3,000 / month from subscription and service blogs with free advertising. All from industry blogs and some forums.

$2,000 / month from consulting service for non-IM related companies. All word of mouth.

Definitely varies month to month a lot, but that is what's working for me.

Nearly anything can work if you put the time in, but just make sure you focus on sources with volume.

I like SEO and doing blog hopping and leaving comments on related blogs.

Twitter and Youtube working really well for me at the mo... All free passive traffic too.

James Scholes

Tumblr.com is working like a dream for me.

So much untapped, free traffic.

Well, to be honest, I doubt that anyone would give up their own best method as, the aim with the internet is for people to see what you have to offer, not what anyone else has to offer but, as we all seem to be in the mood for sharing, I reckon that a combination of all of the above works and, it works really well... Some will for some people, some won't.... I live by the 80/20 rule, 80% of your traffic will come from 20% of your activity and 20% of your traffic will come from 80% of your activity... You just need to weed out what really works for you....

If I told you then it would no longer be my best traffic technique.

A stalled car - I dunno...

Piad traffic definitelly works the best and the fastest:

PPC and high quality solo ads

Honestly, for me - nothing works better than youtube and fanpage traffic.

It's easy to build up HUGE trust on both with users, get them into your list - then hit them 3 times without seeming spammy.

The same people see my offers in their inbox, on FB and on Youtube - works out quite well

Facebook, and forums are my two favorite methods. Many people underestimate the power of traffic coming from forums - but if you leave valued post - you will get highly targeted visitors to your site.

Paid traffic is definitely the quickest way to start seeing results, for the most part. I think it depends what niche market you're in and what you're promoting...an affiliate offer, a sales page, a blog, a squeeze page etc.

Blog marketing definitely. I get alot of results with it - despite being in a tough niche. All depends on your marketing strategy.

I would say my best traffic method is my IM blog

Not only does my blog generate lots of traffic but i also build other traffic sources
and send that traffic to my blog too

It's not something that you can build up overnight it's more of a long term strategy but it's certainly worth it in the end :-)

Paul

Onpage SEO and guest blogging (Tumblr seems to bring lots of traffic too). I also network with my blogging buddies.

SEO and Social Media Marketing is my best 2 traffic sources.

email marketing

both email marketing and ppc work for me

Youtube works the best for me. It is not that hard to have a first page Google ranking for youtube videos. Next is social media traffic, especially Pinterest. I also do a bit of SEO for low competition keywords for Amazon products.

Best traffic technique for me personally is just writing content on my site, however doing special things to the ones where traffic is flowing the most.

Building opt-in lists through occasional ad swaps/reciprocal mailings with other list owners.

Forums is the my favorite method. You can generate good number of quality traffic through forum sites by posting valued post.

For me it's posting a new article every day.

Hey man,


Marketing techniques vary, and none are one-size fits all.

It really depends upon what type of product/service you are offering.

I have closed 7 major players including giants from the automobile industry, to direct competitors of vodafone, and those clients I got by walking straight into their doors with a hell of a pitch and enthusiasm.

Have had hundreds of video clients for doodle videos which I got simply from networking.

Have sold hundreds of web design, FB marketing packages by JVing with other big players via their websites and offering them affiliate comissions.

And well... as you see it all depends on who your target audience is, how expensive the product is, and many other factors.

If you would like a free of charge 30 - min consultation. PM me for my skype info.

Solo ads and media buys.

Well, despite the many moaners you find everywhere about this particular traffic source, I have always found Ezinearticles to be quite good. I also rely on blog and forum commenting quite a lot. It's quite worth the effort of getting out there and branding yourself this way.

I never EVER pay attention to backlinks or what they're worth! I trust my instinct, and it works fine! If I see no results after a while -- it was the case with Yahoo answers-- then, I choose something else.

Hope this helps

Yoan

Facebook apps work for me. I make viral Facebook apps like quizzes/games/iframes. For example, when someone votes between two winners of a sports match, they are redirected to a page of my choice (usually a relevant offer or squeeze) and a message is posted to their wall so all their friends see. Very viral and relative. Also very compliant with Facebooks T&Cs.

It depend on your niche, but social network works best for me, especially tumblr. Tumblr can boost a targeted traffic because of its tag system from each post. Tumblr user is a people who appreciate good image and they love to share it with their follower, that is the point of using tumblr, discover a good image, then share it to your follower. Imagine yourself working on a specific niche that depend on an image, such as design and art niche, then tumblr will work the best for you.
Here is some tips to gets quality traffic from tumblr.
1. Tags your post properly, the more detailed the better
2. Follow the big guys, so you can post a good picture to your fan
3. Only post good image, and don't post your product excessively

if you mean BEST, i will say Solo ads, but usually BEST=MOST EXPENSIVE. think about it.

Content marketing all the way. Guest posting and blogging brings in a ton of traffic and really warm traffic.

Affiliate Traffic. Affiliates will send you all the traffic you want (and some you may not want) as long as they are making money.

The marketing strategy is "Why pay for traffic yourself when affiliates will pay for it - for you."

Jeffery 100% :-)

Solo ads and or ad swaps ... easily

I use a mix of the following:

Social media - VERY powerful and targeted
Social Bookmarking
Forums - Also very targeted and effective if done correctly and easily outsourced.
SEO
Blog Comments

Hope this helps

I like YouTube marketing and creating a massive network of places to direct traffic(all of them search engine optimized).

I truly feel that the best traffic building technique nowadays is Social Bookmarking & Networking. If it is done in a proper way you can get instant traffic from it.

Forums are a great way to draw the traffic to your site. Putting signature links in the posts can boost your keywords, but, the forums you are participating should be dofollow forums or it is of no use.

I would have to say almighty Youtube! Give it a shot and you will see interesting results.

I thought that in the internet everyone is in a different country and that the word of mouth factor was only a myth, but to my surprise I saw it working into practice. Everyone has a relative or friend who will learn about the benefits the first user found with your products/services. And everyone has many online friends. It doesn't matter from which part of the globe they are. Messages from online friends indicating something they found and they liked are wonderful ways to get traffic. If you can find a way to be indicated, this is a good method.


Another free traffic generating method that is working for me is the promotion of my Squidoo lenses. I stopped creating lenses and now I'm caring about driving more traffic to each lens and finding various ways to do so. I'm improving my lenses, and this is helping them become more attractive. I added more pictures, more links, I changed a few colors, etc. You have to keep updating your lenses if you want to get traffic from them and you need a pinging tool. I'm driving this traffic to my websites. It works, but the updates are time consuming. Nothing is perfect.

I think is and will always be the largest driver of traffic. Even if one uses paid ads, search may still trump it.

Paid traffic is best.For example solo ads.But there are one problem with solos,you must know from what person to buy,if you know you can get subscribers for free plus $. Also there are free traffic - forums, It takes more time but its FREE.

Paid traffic - multiple sources
Social and SEO

No "top secret" methods or anything just hard work and a lot of tracking

there are so many dang choices and I know it's different for eveyone in every niche

and I think that is why I never get one to really work well for me. I do some of this and some of that, get some traffic here and there ... but I think it's time to stop being the ‘jack of all trades’ and master of none… find the one free traffic method that you will enjoy learning and master that one method... as so many warriors have said in here

now it's just a matter of finding that ONE traffic method and to master by applying the suggested "Goal-Gift" method. I'm going to set 30 day goals with my choice method and after 30 days, if I have been consistent, give myself a pat on the back and a gift and review the results

once I have mastered ONE method, and or discover it is not the right one for my niche, I will move on to the next one.

There are so many people saying youtube, I think that is going to be my one method to start with, then syndicated articles which alexa has me convinced I need to do and do well. Thanks for all the great posts alexa!!

I really do think syndicated articles are the way to go, they seem to work for those that do it "right" and then you are not relying on Google or any third party for traffic.

A combination of PPC and Social Media will be the most practical at this time. Of course you must add everything else afterwards.

I work on building my brand out, I find that related visitors obviously convert. I buy advertising on similar niche sites. I'm also huge on guest posting, the posts stay up and keep driving traffic for me.

Blogging is my favorite method of traffic generation because it's easy to start from nothing. My 2nd favorite would be affiliate traffic.

There's no magic trick here; lots and lots of quality backlinks, a little PPC, social media marketing ... There's so much to do it never ends.

I find a combination of Video Marketing (I use youtube, vimeo, and some self hosted videos) and signature links are a very good combination for me. I find that a lot more effective than article marketing, for instance.

The best traffic technique that is working for me and it is a very effective strategy is Social Media Marketing. You can use forum sites, social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Linkedin), and Social Bookmarking sites (Reddit, Stumbleupon, Digg). All you need to do is to build relationship with other users according to your niche and natural link and natural traffic will comes next.

Copywriting and conversion optimization. I do them, and I study them. There are few other services or methods that can bring you reliable, consistent traffic and sales as these two things together.

I would think most people use squeeze pages - I do

I truly feel that the best traffic building technique nowadays is Social Bookmarking & Networking. If it is done in a proper way you can get instant traffic from it.

Forums are a great way to draw the traffic to your site. Putting signature links in the posts can boost your keywords, but, the forums you are participating should be dofollow forums or it is of no use.

So far I have been getting a majority of my traffic through IM forums, like Warrior Forum

I just try to post good content, everyday, and include a signature to my website.

I also have success with SEO, article marketing, and YouTube.

Tip: I love using YouTube because it is somewhat easy to rank well for your keyword.

Id have to say It would be SEO It seems to be the most targeted. Well it is because my numbers are the highest with SEO. I am in the process of learning to invest $10 and bring back $100 with ppv. Over the last year Iv lost over $300 but thats not to bad I suppose. reallly the last 150 wasnt not to bad because I felt I was moving forward. Iv learn or learning to optimize. Nothing works on the first try... The the best anyways

Solo ads have worked really well for me in the last few months. I've built more people on my list through that medium over the last 3 months than I have for the past 18 months trying to make SEO work.

My top one are:

Youtube
Forum
Facebook pages
Press Release
PDF sharing sites/Powerpoint sharing sites
Web 2.0
Tutorial Sites
Free eBook Sharing Sites

Simon

Blog commenting I'd say is a pretty big one.

Also, experiment with a combination of different social media to get as much traffic as possible.

Warrior Forum works well

sounds like a lot of traffic techniques that everyone uses. Do you outsource your traffic or do you generate this yourself. Be interesting to hear your comments.

I've been using social media for the past few years, but today I am only using tumblr page. It is free, and I am a tumblr user myself. This little hobby of mine save me the trouble of finding the right traffic generator. I spend one hour each day to post good picture and then tag it properly. I have many follower and also following some awesome tumblr user.