Attracting traffic to your website is a primary concern of
website owners. Without traffic you will
not make money with a website. This fact
alone gives the gnawing feeling that maybe buying traffic is the answer. Well, I urge you to consider the following
before actually moving forward and buying traffic.
Yes, it is true that without traffic you will not be able to
sell anything through your website.
However, you still won’t make any money with your site if you buy oodles
of traffic and it’s not actually targeted traffic. So, you might think, then, that the answer
would be to buy loads of targeted traffic.
Buying targeted traffic would be a viable answer if it could actually be
accomplished at a reasonable price.
Traffic Vendors Often Use Bots, etc.
You want the type of website visitors that are hungry for
the information and products that you provide.
Unfortunately, many traffic vendors don’t send that kind of
visitor. Many vendors advertise that
they have the wherewithal to be able to collect targeted leads. However, unfortunately, the claims of many of
these companies are a fraudulent. These
companies often use tactics that don’t generate genuine targeted traffic. Many of them use bots, website redirects, and
pop ups to collect their traffic. These
and other methods don’t come close to targeting traffic that you can actually
profit from.
Disapproval from Google
Many traffic generating sites use black hat SEO
techniques. You might wonder what that
has to do with you since you would not be the one using the unscrupulous
techniques. Know that it would actually
have a lot to do with you. Google could actually
penalize your site for working alongside sites that use black hat SEO
techniques.
Often, traffic generator websites buy traffic from link
farms that Google has backlisted (backlisting is a penalty assessed by Google. It results in a page being removed from a
search engines index. This means that
even if someone looks for your website they will not be able to find it.) Participating in link exchanges to get traffic
with these types of websites can bring a penalty to your site as well.
You Get What You Pay For
Much of the traffic for sale is very low quality. You can find traffic that cost $15 and under
for 10,000 visitors and $90 and under for 50,000 visitors. These prices would be ridiculously low if the
traffic that you would receive would be targeted and usable. However, this is not the case. If you get one of these bought visitors to
answer your call to action you would be doing very good. The reason is that this traffic usually comes
from pop unders or pop overs. Think
about it. If it was so easy to get traffic using pop unders or pop overs then
the experienced webmasters would be buying millions of these types of visitors.
Go Organic
The best way of getting traffic to your site is to generate
traffic the organic way. That is through
search engine optimization (SEO). It’s free
and its results lasts for many years. You
simply need to write your content around your selected keyword words and phrases, accumulate legitimate back links, use
keywords in your headings and subheadings, fill out title tags with keywords
and use keywords in your URL.
Conclusion
Traffic generator websites make it tempting to do business
with them. They offer thousands of
visitors per day for very little money.
The downside to this is that the visitors that they send are usually not
targeted and most often don’t buy anything from the site. It is much better in the long run to take the
time to optimize your site for search engines.
The good thing about search engine optimization is it does not offend
Google so you don’t have to worry about getting penalized for it. Additionally, if it is done correctly, search
engine optimization can get your site placed at the top of search engine
results pages, sometimes for many years.
If you learned anything new from this article then please leave a comment.
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