Home Based Internet Business

The question is: What is the best way to drive traffic to your site? What good is a website with no visitors, after all? Then you need web traffic, if you run a website.

And others are free, some techniques are expensive. Some require very little, some techniques require a lot of manual labor on your part. Sometimes it seems like there's as many techniques as there are websites. There are numerous techniques for generating traffic.

In my opinion there is only one technique that can provide just that. What we need is a way to generate traffic that offers high volume in relation to the amount of work and money involved.

Right now we need people! You can deal with search engines later. In this article I'm talking about methods of generating raw traffic. That is a completely different topic. I'm not talking about search engine optimization or page ranking or any other such measure of site popularity, let's be clear.

Which hopefully turn into a steady stream of shoppers throughout the rest of the year, sales generate large crowds of people. Most retail businesses rely on huge sales to bring in hordes of shoppers during special times of the year. Let's take a hint from the retail world.

You should find a method to draw large numbers of people to your pages in a short amount of time. You need a way to create a giant initial interest in your site. A website should follow that example.

But it's this initial surge of traffic that we're trying to get, obviously you will need engaging site content that will hopefully keep them coming back.

But weak when it comes to raw numbers, they're good for maintaining a steady stream of traffic down the line. But they don't draw people in bulk. And are valid, these two techniques are very popular. Ignore link-exchange and directory submission, first. So how do you do it?

The click to cash ratio is too high for the type of initial traffic generation we're looking for. You tend to spend way too much money compared to the number of clicks you get. You should also ignore pay-per-click ad campaigns.

I think there is. Is there such a beast? But not be cost prohibitive, we need something that can draw a big chunk of visitors in a short amount of time. We need something that's in between these other techniques.

And the links are usually permanent, these sites sell direct one-way links from their site to your homepage. I'm talking about sites such as LinkExperiment.com and KingOfTheBill.com. The answer is: Link Auction Sites.

Mostly because the web owner usually buys a link or two to his site from other Link Auction sites, sites like this generally draw a huge initial crowd. You can usually get a link for very little money (between $5 and $10 in most cases) when the site is fairly new, at most of these sites.

Even though many of these sites have little or no page ranking on other search engines, and rank extremely high on traffic monitors like Alexa, they usually have a huge traffic pattern.

That's a great return for spending about the cost of a Happy Meal. It's not uncommon to get 500 to 600 hits per week or more on your link. That means huge traffic for you. Most of the visitors to these sites tend to browse all the links out of curiosity.

You could easily find another link site and begin again, at that point. By then you would have easily drawn enough traffic to warrant the few bucks you spent. Which is okay, this traffic will start to dwindle over time, obviously.

Which means you'll be getting some traffic on it for quite a long time, your link is permanent, on just about every link site. The link site is the best value for the money.

You put way too much money in the web owner's pocket in relation to the number of hits you'll get. Many of these sites charge $100 or more for a 10 x 10 icon that gets buried in a sea of graphic garbage. I'm not talking about the "pixel"-type sites like MillionDollarHomePage.com and Pixelotto.com; keep in mind.

These sites are marketing gold when it comes to traffic. Or your witty marketing text, i'm talking about sites that clearly display your URL or banner.

So what's the game plan?

Then it's even more cost effective, if you can get in for under $40. Plus your link continues to run on their site permanently. That's cheaper than most PPC campaigns. Once you've passed 1000 hits -- which usually doesn't take too long -- you'll have cut your per-hit costs down to $0.04 cents per hit, if you spend $40 on a link. " That means finding a site that's still selling links in your price range. Find a link site that's still "young.

Then simply go out and find another young link site, and if you need more hits. Then sit back and laugh at everyone else who's still submitting to directories and link exchanges. Have some captivating content on your site to entice them to return. Usually very quickly), and wait for the hits to roll in (which they will, buy your link, so find your site.

Find sites that directly display your URL along with your witty sales repartee. So you definitely don't want to have your link hidden behind a referrer URL, search engines usually smile on one-way links. Which means search engines won't pick up the fact that the site is linking to you, you lose the visibility on your link. Some sites like to direct the clicks through a referrer page or counter page before going on to your site. Try to find sites that don't hide your URL behind a referral or counter page, one other tip: When searching for a link auction site.

You'll wonder why you ever tried any other technique! Stick with link auction sites.