Don’t Pay For Traffic!
Traffic that you pay for can never really be good traffic. When I first started off in the webmaster business, I wanted to find ways to get visitors really quick, and without a lot of work. The truth is, you’re never going to find quality visitors that way. What you want, is people that are going to go to your site because they want to, not because they’re being paid to.
Some of you may have been to traffic exchange sites, where you leave the window open for 30 seconds, and then move on to the next website. When you pay for traffic, you are paying for visitors to come to your site just like that! There are also other ways that people can send you traffic, and whether they’re bots or real members, it never works out the way you want it to. Unless you’re one of those sites that brings all of it’s visitors in from top sites, then the traffic you get to begin with doesn’t mean a thing.
One other downside to buying traffic is… google doesn’t condone it! You could get your publisher’s account banned just for purchasing traffic. You could lose multiple clicks, or be smart-priced… (no bueno, I’ve been there).
For quality traffic, build up your content and let SEO do its work. A few other ways to get good traffic is to post in show off threads in forums, submit articles to digg, stumble your sites (trust me, social networking is good). Even linking and embedding youtube videos on your site can get you some quality traffic from the linked by section underneath the video on youtube’s site.
Here’s my comic for this lesson~
