There Are Only Really 2 Ways To Get Traffic

Posted by Steven Wagenheim on August 08, 2010 in General, Marketing Articles, Traffic Generation

In spite of what you’ve been lead to believe, there are really ONLY 2 ways to get traffic. Yeah, I know…everybody talks about all these different traffic generation methods and if I listed them that list would be a mile long. But the truth is, there are only 2 ways to get traffic. Scratching your head trying to figure out what they are? Well, relax. I’m going to tell you. Here they are.

1. Pay for it.
2. Don’t pay for it.

That’s it folks. In spite of what you’ve been told, when it all boils down to the basics, those are the ONLY 2 ways to generate traffic.

Okay, if the above sounds like a duh statement and you’re wondering where I’m going with this, hang in there because it’s all going to become very clear very soon.

To understand where I’m coming from, you need to understand basic human nature…especially when it comes to running your own home business. Most successful people (I said most) are working good jobs and would never entertain the notion of running their own home business. Truth is, had I not lost MY job, I’d NEVER be doing this. And I had a damn good job, though not as good as the one I had now. Still, a home business would have been the furthest thing from my mind.

No, the typical home business person is the poor guy who has lost his job or never had one. Most of these people are dead broke or close to it. I know because I run into them every single day of the week. When you have a list in the thousands, you get a sense for these things.

So when these people start working on their business and it comes time to actually try to generate traffic to their site (yep, you know where I’m going now don’t you) what do you think is the FIRST question they ask?

“Can you tell me any FREE ways to generate traffic?”

They don’t have money to pay for advertising. They just about have enough money to pay for their web hosting and domain. If you think I’m kidding, I’m not. So starting a PPC campaign or doing a media buy (even if for just $20) is out of the question.

Well, if you’re not going to pay for immediate traffic, then the only option left to you is to NOT pay for traffic, or, to be more specific, generate it manually over time.

Those are your choices folks. There is nothing else.

Now, having said that, there are numerous methods for generating traffic over time. The problem is finding the ones that are most productive for YOUR business. And make no mistake about it, some methods work great for one business but totally SUCK for other businesses.

Thus, the reason why I have decided to start a series on traffic generation using totally free methods. We’re going to examine EACH one in detail and see which ones work best under which conditions and which ones need to be avoided for certain businesses or at all for that matter. Some free methods just flat out SUCK…PERIOD.

In the next installment of this series, we’re going to start with the letter A.

Can you guess what method that is?

Good…I’ll see you then.

Sincerely,

Steven Wagenheim

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