Tim's Home Biz Blog

Another Source of Traffic

Obviously, the key to making money online is by getting a steady stream of traffic to your website. If you want your home business to survive this is critical. There are many ways to do this including using traffic generators where you get views of your site based on your viewing other sites. This includes sites like Traffic Swarm, TS25, Traffic G, etc. This is time consuming and not really productive.

You can use autosurf traffic generators, where you turn it on, let it display a different site every 10-15 seconds and rack up the credits. But this is even less productive because everyone else is doing the same thing and no one is watching them. I think the only reason these exist is for the autosurf owner to try to get people to upgrade (pay) for the service. Since no one is watching I'm not sure what the benefit is.

Another tactic is to write and submit articles. This has a couple of benefits. First, your article may get published on several or even hundreds of sites. If you have included a signature or resource box with a link to your website, then anyone reading your article on any of those sites has easy access to your website. Second, the link from you resource box on all of those sites provides you with a large number of inbound links which improves your page ranking, which in turn improves your search engine positioning. This is a practice that I engage in.

Purchasing pay per click (PPC) advertising is another method. There are many places that this type of advertising can be placed, the most well know is Google AdWords. One drawback is that getting your ad placed high enough to be seen can be expensive for the more popular keywords. I have written previous posts about my experience with AdWords. I currently have a couple AdWords campaigns going.

An option that I have not tried before, but will start soon, is to purchase traffic. This can be done in various ways - guaranteed visitors, banner impressions & email clicks are all examples. Erich Winecke recently recommended Visitor Finder to me. This appears to be quite cost effective ranging from 10,000 bulk untargeted visitors for $17.95 to 10,000 country, category and language targeted visitors for $79.95. If your site is optimized so that the visitor sees right off the theme of the site there is a better chance that they will look around for awhile and sign up for an opportunity.

I will report my experience with Visitor Finder in a following post.

posted by Timothy Spaulding @ 7:24 AM