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What Traffic Sources Usually Don't Work Well

Over the past few days I have gone over some techniques that will definitely work to generate more traffic to your websites.

Now I want to go over a different subject: What traffic sources DON'T work!

I have been generating traffic for almost four years now and have tried hundreds of different "techniques." I can tell you of some that failed over and over and over again.

I'm not saying that these methods can't work at all. In fact some people do quite well with traffic exchanges and Black-Hat SEO...but for most people they are usually time-wasters as there are much easier and more effective ways of generating traffic.

Traffic Killer Method #1: Traffic Exchanges

The item at the top of my list is traffic exchanges. The basic idea behind these is that others will look at your website in return for you looking at theirs. Early on they can be worth doing to drive leads to short squeeze page, but over time you'll find that other methods of driving traffic tend to be more effective.

You get credits for viewing other people's websites. You can use those credits to get others to look at your websites.

Results? You'll get traffic all right. Your stats will show thousands of visitors. But will you get signups or sales? Most likely not.

The time you spend on traffic exchanges is better spent in forums or creating products.

Traffic Killer Method #2: Purchased Traffic

There are many companies out there that will sell you tens of thousands of unique visitors for a very reasonable price.

These companies purchase expired domains and then redirect any existing traffic to their customers websites via pop-unders and pop-overs.

It seems very promising - if I pay $50 for 50,000 visitors and only 0.1% of them turn into subscribers then I have only paid $1 per subscriber.

Results? I have paid for literally millions of visitors and haven't received ONE single subscriber. What a waste of money...

Traffic Killer Method #3: Black Hat SEO

Search engine optimization is a very hot topic, and it will continue to be so as long as there are search engines on the Internet.

Many try to "trick" the search engines through many methods - link farming, content cloaking, hidden doorways, and more.

New techniques appear on a daily basis. You will constantly see new pieces of software that will "submit your ad to 1,000,000 blogs" or "automatically bring you 15,000 incoming links."

These methods tend to get you banned from the search engines sooner or later and will cost you more traffic than you get.

Results? Maybe some traffic at first, but then you get banned and lose potential future traffic.

More Traffic Generating Scams Than You Can Shake a Stick At...

As you go about your Internet Marketing duties you are going to find that "new and improved" ideas on how to generate traffic to your site will pop up.

You should ignore 99% of them. If people ever use the words "low cost" or "search engine tricks" you should stay far, far away.

If you want to get a good grounding in traffic, you may want to consider grabbing the Free Smart Marketer's Guide to Traffic at TrafficThatWorks.com.

(This Expert-Selected Content is Reprinted with Permission and Edited by WorkAtHomeTruth)