Best Way to Generate Traffic!

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by monet, Jun 17, 2008.

  1. #1
    I sell a product, not a service or money making opportunity. What is the single best way to generate traffic to a site with a generous budget? Organic search, PPC, Banner ads, Social Media Posts, email blasts or ???
    Love to hear your response(s) from someone who's been duped by the "experts"!

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  2. kanwarjot

    kanwarjot Notable Member

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    Best way is Social Bookmarking..apart from that to increase your backlinks, do directory submission,article submission and press releases
     
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  3. himanuzo

    himanuzo Well-Known Member

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    Best ways for long term:
    1. Adwords
    2. Article marketing
    3. Web 2.0 marketing
    4. Blogging
    5. Heavy SEO
     
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  4. priyakochin

    priyakochin Banned

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    which type of product u sell.first u find the niche then do market there.
     
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    henery008 Peon

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    I think Google natural listing is the most important, PPC and Blogging would definitely help in drawing traffic as well
     
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    datafiedbpo Banned

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    Free Classified, Advertizing is the Best way to generate traffic and ofcourse good ranking in google.
     
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  7. businessgrowth

    businessgrowth Peon

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    Optimizing your website is the cheapest way. Use PPC to find popular and effective keywords.
    I always start with ppc then you know what your market is looking for, you can then match your message (in articles social etc) with the markets needs.
     
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    jg_abad Peon

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    first of all need to do following research
    - Geographic market
    - demographic market
    - niche

    once you completed with the research, create strategies for promote your website explained by other dp friends.
     
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  9. monet

    monet Peon

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    Thanks for all of the replies. Right now I'm using these methods in the following order of time and money spent.

    1. PPC (easy to drive traffic, but very expensive for each conversion)
    2. Weekly email blast to existing customers ( most effective per conversion
    but my list is only 15,800).
    3. Organic SEO (in the 4th month of a 6 month contract with seo firm
    but no results yet, they said to be patient).
    4. Yahoo Product Submit (drives around 2,000 visits a month but hard
    to track the conversions)
    5. Banner ad on the the dirty.com (lots of hits, but low conversions)
    6. Social media (just created Squeedoo lens and Facebook page so
    no results yet)
    7. Classified ads (very time consuming to do manually)

    If my Seo consultant doesn't produce what is a rough estimate I should expect to pay, to get in the top 10 on Google for keywords sexy lingerie,sexy stiletto heels, sexy costumes, plus size lingerie, erotic lingerie and sexy high heels?
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    Hi,

    I think you should focus and think your target market. Maybe you should spend some time to make friend with them in the online forums that they would go to.
    Or you can try article marketing and submit them to article directories. Use the keyword that you would like to target as the anchor text.
    All the best :)
     
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  11. carol.prime

    carol.prime Active Member

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    Everything has been said. You just have to need dedication and time to do all these things.
     
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    social bookmarking is fantastic as you will find that they get listed within a day on google which can start to bring in great traffic. I would also suggest article marketing so that you can start to build more backlinks to your website.
     
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    SEO -> Search Engine Traffic = Targeted Traffic = Potential Customers -> Convert into Customers.
     
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    mentos Prominent Member

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    Why don't you try Article marketing?
     
    mentos, Jun 18, 2008 IP