Targeted Web Traffic - How to Get Web Site Traffic With Free Resources

Targeted Web Traffic is getting visitors to your site who are interested in what you have to offer. These visitors have to be able to find your web site first. The two most common ways visitors will find your site is by typing in a word phrase into a search engine or linking to your web site from another web site. There are several ways to get your web site on the search engines results page and on other web sites. Many of these ways are free. Here are three free resources you can take advantage of to get targeted web traffic to your site.

Writing articles and publishing them on article web sites is a great way to bring attention to your web site. And sometimes these same articles will quickly rank on search engine results pages. This gives you another opportunity for visitors to find your site. These articles should have keywords or search phrases in them that visitors use to find information on your website topic. For example, if you have a website on aquariums. You would want your article to have phrases in it about aquariums or fish. These keywords should be considered in all three ways I discuss to get web site traffic.

Keep in mind, one article will not get the amount of targeted web traffic you are looking for. You will need to write and submit several articles focusing on the topic or niche of your web site. Most article web sites do not allow you to put links to any web sites in the body of the article. However, they do allow a bio box about the author to be used and a link can be placed in this text that points to your web site. Before publishing any articles, review each article web site's policies.

Social media sites like Squidoo or Hubpages are sites where the members create and provide most of the content for the site. These types of sites allow you to directly link to your web site. So, you can create a page on the site that discusses the topic that your web site is about. You can include links to your web site allowing the visitor to the social media site to follow the link or click through to your site. This then brings targeted web traffic to your web site because the visitor wants more information on the topic of your web site. As with all 3 of these web site traffic ideas, these social media sites want good content and not one big advertisement. Being spammy and not providing any useful content may get your page deleted. And there goes all your hard work.

Blogging and Microblogging are similar and are both ways to get targeted web traffic. Blogging can be done by having your own blog web site or using a community blogging website. Wordpress has both types. I believe it is better to have your own blog so you are in control of the blog contents. Blogging is a platform that encourages the question "What's on your mind?" to be answered. This type of site allows you to put in your own content, create links to your sites or other sites, similar to social media sites. Updating your blog weekly is a must. The search engines love new content. These updates can be short. Microblogging are sites that encourage very short entries, some only a couple of lines. One of these sites is Twitter. If blogging asks, "what's on your mind?", microblogging asks, "what's on your mind right now?"As with blogging, you can link to your web site with microblogs, but be sure to provide good, informative content.

Using all three of these traffic generating ideas together will help bring in a steady stream of traffic. All of these ideas should be done on a consistent basis to keep the flow of targeted web traffic going to your site. Although I have only listed a few resources, there are almost unlimited resources that can be used to get web site traffic.

Should You Buy Web Traffic?

From the dawn of the internet, millions and millions of users search the internet for solutions, entertainment, and ideas.

Now how can we go about targeting some of these visitors to your site?

There are plenty of ways to do so, promoting your site effectively works, and optimizing your site for search engine rankings, or advertising your site on other sites, like link building strategies and buying traffic.

Now, Is buying web traffic a good thing?

Yes and no, you want to buy effective traffic to your site, otherwise your just wasting your bandwidth, you should also consider that buying traffic for your site is a risk. If you are buying targeted traffic to increase your exposure and generate sales, there is no guarantee that you will generate sales from the traffic that you have purchased, however there's still a good chance of converting that traffic to sales if your site contains what that visitor is seeking.

Buying untargeted traffic is the cheap source of traffic, its very unpredictable, and you cannot expect much conversion from it. In other words it can be a good solution to increase your site's potential and rank, It can also be a big waste of bandwidth.

Be aware of buying fake traffic generated by bot's or spamming, you don't want to buy traffic that was forced to your site, as pop ups are the most annoying thing a website can have. Visitors who see a pop up will often ignore that pop up and close it and will probably leave site if continues. Having pop ups on your site is a bad idea and will drive visitors away.

Also be aware of buying web traffic that is delivered through means of iframes. This traffic is useless to your site, although it can still build your sites rank, you will not see much success from it. Nobody is going to buy a product while surfing through a site in an iframe as the visitor feels that it is not secure.

There are many different sources to buying web traffic, much of the web traffic that you buy will depend on who you are buying it from and If can you trust them to deliver that web traffic as advertised.

What source of traffic should you buy?

The best source of buying web traffic is delivered through sites receiving targeted visitors and very high traffic stream, other web traffic sources are through means of expired domains that contain a high stream of web traffic not always the best but recycled.

Now, I want to give a few pointers to anyone who is buying web traffic particularly for making sales, although it may seem easy enough to do, this is the worst kind of idea of promoting your product as buying traffic has limited to no guarantee of any sales.

If you are selling a product or service, the best source of traffic is through means of PPC promotion as these visitors will click your ad's because they have an interest in the product and are willing to overlook your site, other then that, the traffic that you buy from other then PPC will not have any pre-interest in the site that pops up and will probably close the site without giving it any thought.

Imagine spending over $100 a month buying traffic to your site with a low conversion rate, wondering why this just isn't working. Then you decide that you would finally like to invest that money in better more proven methods of promotion, Adwords for example, I mean, your spending your money on traffic anyway?

PPC promotion has the highest rate of sales conversion, as long as your site appeals to the hungry audience, what I mean by that is the audience that you are targeting to buy your products. Of course It may cost a little to invest, however in return you will be much more satisfied with the results and most likely generate sales and earn that money back in no time.

Well, That's about it, thanks for reading and I hope you have enjoyed my article.

The Pros and Cons of buying web traffic.

Pros:

1) Increase your sites rank and popularity.

2) Generate sales from converting web traffic.

3) Populate your online community.

4) Quick & easy solution for fast traffic rates.

Cons:

1) The risk of buying fake web traffic.

2) Low conversion rate.

3) The quality of the web traffic.

4) The source of the web traffic.

5) Consuming and wasting bandwidth.

6) Spam traffic and forced visits.