For local business conversions, I use local Business directories, I find these are easier to get organic traffic from as they mainly serve the local communities. In terms of just traffic I would say Google 2nd, and then inbound links via other people/organisations websites.
Google : ) It's the best place to get traffic, and if you're a master of SEO and know what you're doing it shouldn't be that hard at all ...
search engines bring lots of traffic- very expensive and only somewhat targeted yahoo answers has proven very effective - targeted traffic ezine articles has brought lots of good traffic - several sales and repeats ---reminds me I need to post some more articles... facebook has brought some sales - of course I offer a discount there forum postings have done well - thus here I am safelists like herculist have proven a waste of time traffic exchanges not doing any good either hope some of this helps a newbie
Search engines, Video, Social media, Article marketing, Email lists... Hmmm come to think of it.......all of them are good as longs as they are targeted.
My favourite traffic source is search engines. Sure, your website's search engine ranking might go down sometime or the other, but it's easy to get your ranking position back,
For my 6 biggest sites, organic search is my major traffic source. Luckily, they are in a position where they won't be going anywhere, soon. For the others, I usually release articles and newsletters. That tends to have good results, too.
My favorite source is creatin ebooks and embedding them with liks to my squeeze pages and then giving them away like crazy. Results in lots of traffic to my squeeze pages and leads. Then I use my autoresponder to send my list a broadcast and include a couple of links and that always drives traffic.
Well I've got a good traffic from forums, blog commenting, articles and social bookmarking. So I was continuously working on it.
I like the traffic I get from Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Search Engine traffic I like also. Michael
Absolutely, hands down. These are also very targeted if your url is realted to the website\content. If you build a good proffesional profile also, visitors will want to know more.