| They're known as eyeballs, visitors and traffic, but | | | | against your most successful ads too. Doing this |
| they all mean the same. People coming and seeing | | | | consistently will create ads that pull visitors like crazy. |
| your website then taking some kind of action that | | | | When you have found the ads that do that, move |
| you want them to take. | | | | your resources to that advertising campaign. It |
| You need website traffic to be successful, but there | | | | makes no difference if it's a paid or free advertising |
| is more than one type of traffic and you need the | | | | source. You must track! |
| right type for your niche. The right type of traffic is | | | | Number 3 |
| highly targeted, interested in what you offer and is | | | | Buy mailing lists, bulk email services, email blasts and |
| profitable for you. | | | | bulk traffic services are mostly scams. If you find a |
| Number 1 | | | | deal that promises to send four million visitors to your |
| Before you spend time or money with any new | | | | site after you pay $199, then it's not worth the |
| traffic source, find out what others are saying. The | | | | money. |
| Internet is a gold mine of opportunity to research | | | | - The kind of traffic you'll get from a bulk traffic |
| anything and your potential new traffic source is no | | | | service is not targeted, so besides increasing your |
| different. Don't waste your time or money if the | | | | bandwidth and possibly your hosting charges, you are |
| general consensus is that your potential new traffic | | | | not likely to get a massive result. |
| source isn't going to reward you with highly targeted, | | | | - Buying mailing lists is risky unless you are 100% sure |
| interested, profitable visitors. | | | | of the source because you can easily be accused of |
| Number 2 | | | | spamming and have your website suspended. That is |
| I've mentioned this in many of my articles on traffic. | | | | definitely not a way to make money online. There |
| You must measure and test your marketing. If you | | | | are reputable companies out there but do your |
| fail to measure and test your marketing, you are | | | | research before you decide anything. |
| leaving money on the table and wasting your time. | | | | - Bulk traffic services are in the same category as |
| Why would you spend money on an advertising | | | | buying mailing lists. You have no way of knowing if |
| source and have no idea what the result is? Use | | | | they are double opt-in lists or if they are even |
| tracking codes or special landing pages for each and | | | | current lists. The risks are not worth it. |
| every ad you create. You need to know who is | | | | These companies are looking for Internet newbies |
| sending you the traffic and when. | | | | who are uneducated in getting traffic. There are so |
| You must track your advertising campaigns and | | | | many more ways of getting good quality traffic to |
| measure the results if you are to be successful. You | | | | your website easily, both free and paid. |
| need to modify the ads you create and test them | | | | |