Harsh truth about website traffic

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Traffic is the lifeblood of any business, right? Without online traffic, (that is targeted and hungry to buy), you have no business.

Also, there are two types of traffic. Good traffic, and bad traffic. Good traffic is traffic that comes from your own hard sweat, and skills – such as blogging, writing articles, using social media, and using paid advertising. Bad traffic is all the others, such as traffic exchanges, and banner ad exchanges, etc. One simple, but harsh fact is traffic exchanges bring you traffic, but they don’t bring you hungry traffic eager to swallow up your offer.

What’s the point of having 15,000 hits but no sales? The skill to learn is to find traffic sources that work, and then stick with them, and grow.

SOME ADVICE: STOP TRYING TO BE AN EXPERT AT EVERYTHING WHEN IT COMES TO TRAFFIC GENERATION, AND LEARN TO JUST BE A MASTER AT TWO OR THREE TRAFFIC TECHNIQUES…

The next harsh fact with traffic is it doesn’t fall into your lap, or come to you by just pushing a button. There are hundreds of traffic push button software’s out there. Do not get ripped off by promises of instant traffic in days, hours, from the moment you push the button.

Another small tip: You don’t DRIVE traffic to a website, the traffic comes to you because of what you are offering – assuming they were already looking for what you were offering…

TRAFFIC STARTS WITH YOU

To gain hungry targeted traffic, you need an enticing offer, a product, and a little bit of sales bravado.

A PRODUCT

That’s it. The best way to get started if you want your own product is PLR.

WHAT IS PLR…

Ebooks, software, or video courses. PLR is private label rights where, in some cases, you can alter an existing product and put your own name on it, and totally modify it. Always check your rights when buying PLR products. Not all enable you to change a product. Resell rights means you have the rights to just resell the product, not modify it –in some cases, you can put your name on it.

BUILD A LIST…MEANS RESIDUAL INCOME FROM ALREADY TARGETED TRAFFIC…

Once you have a product, you then need a website. Believe it or not, websites are easy to set up nowadays. I use a FREE HTML EDITOR like Kompozer, which can help you build a simple website in minutes.

When you have a website, you then need an autoresponder, to collect email addresses. An autoresponder is simply a automated piece of email software that can enable you to build a relationship with opt-in prospects by writing content that you only have to set up once. Aweber, and GetResponse do the rest.

BACK TO TRAFFIC

Traffic that has opted in to your list or offer – through a SQUEEZE PAGE, (a page solely designed to capture names and email addresses,) will already be interested in what you are offering. You can market related products to them over and over again.

FINAL THOUGHT…

Buying traffic doesn’t have to be hitting on your wallet. In fact, there are ways of buying traffic, that can cost just a tiny fraction and can gain you top results. Remember traffic is not about VOLUME, it’s about QUALITY.

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