Wednesday, August 1, 2012

OK, So Paid Traffic Must Be The Answer Right?

The other type of traffic is "paid traffic." This is where you go out and spend money to get traffic. The most popular ways of doing this include things like ...


Pay-Per-Click advertising on Google, Yahoo, Facebook, etc.
Buying banner ads on other popular sites with lots of traffic
Paying to run ads in targeted email newsletters or e-zines
Paying for Press Releases, "Sponsored Tweets" on Twitter, etc.
Buying Exit Pop-Ups (i.e. PPV) and other forms of low quality traffic

With paid traffic you can start getting traffic right away, but these all have their problems too.

The biggest problem is that it takes a lot of testing and tweaking of your ad campaigns to find what works and what doesn't. And the unfortunate truth is that most of your "tests" will fail.

Paid traffic involves A LOT of risk because you could end up losing a lot of money before you figure out something that actually works. Most people run out of money before they get there.

To really make a go at it with paid traffic you'll need a big bankroll, and you need to accept the fact that you could lose it all and run out of money before seeing any real success.

That's just not realistic for most people, especially in this day and age.

So either way, getting traffic isn't as quick and easy as those people selling "how to get traffic" courses make it sound. Perhaps you've bought some of them and you know this firsthand.

If not, just go browse any of the popular Internet marketing forums and you'll find countless people begging for help, losing money, and not seeing any real results.

Now, here's something interesting I want you to consider ...

How cool would it be if you could profit from affiliate and CPA marketing, but you didn't have to worry about actually generating any traffic yourself?

Would that make things just a wee bit easier? Hmm ...

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