Reading
postings in different Newsgroups it becomes clear that "I does not work for me.." statements comes from one very clear reason: not enough Traffic. To be more accurate, it is "not enough *targeted* Traffic".The Ability to generate targeted and low cost Traffic is crucial for success of every internet business.
Well, what is "enough Traffic" ? Let´s take some minutes to analyze traffic needs in detail.
Let´s say you would have a single business opportunity that you would like to advertise. This opportunity allows you to earn 10$ per Sale.
Furthermore you would like to earn 500$ in month from this opportunity alone. So would need 50 sales during this period.
In order to determine number of clicks (traffic) you will need, you need to know conversion rate of your opportunity. This rate itself will depend on how targeted your traffic is. In order to make it easy, let´s assume your conversion rate is 4%, meaning that 4% of your potential buyers will purchase your product/opportunity etc.
This means that from 100 Clicks, you will get 4 sales. So you need 25 Clicks in order to make a sale (100/4). This is in fact a good conversion rate! Usually you will have such high conversions only for free stuff or by having an extremly well targeted traffic.
Considering that you wish to have 50 sales in a month, you will need thus 1250 Clicks per month.
If your conversion rate would be 0.4 % instead of 4%, you would need 10 times more, 12.500 Clicks per month. So next question would be where do you obtain such traffic (compare next section).
In Reality, number of Clicks to perform a sale (conversion rate), depends from "Quality" of Traffic itself.
Let´s consider an advertiser of Food for Cats starts an advertising campaign sending an Ad to everybody. Obviously for "non cat owners", Ad is absolutely irrelevant. May be some people will click to ads for curiosity, but their clicks will seldom lead to sales. The "Traffic" would be of low quality, since it is not "targeted" enough. Instead, if Ad is placed in an electronic magazine for Cat Owners, he will need a considerable lower number of clicks to perform sales, since Traffic is more "targeted" and thus, has a higher quality.
This is a simple, but very important point. Thus, "Traffic Providers" promising to send "10.000 Clicks" will lead with high probability to nowhere, since traffic is highly "untargeted".
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One easy source of free traffic are Free Ads. Just type in Google (just scroll this page down to find a Google Search) "Free Classifieds" to find hundreds of free Ad sources. I personally use US-Free Ads, since they are free and offer multiple helpful options, like Tracking, Add a Picture, Paypal Button and so on. A free Account can be obtained here,
Free Advertising using Free Classifieds can be a very time consuming task and results are overestimated at beginning. It is recommended to consider option to buy "featured" Ads to reduce manual effort and maximize results.
You may need to submit your Ad to a high number of free ad providers to get really a reasonable number of clicks. ----------------- AdLandPro -----------------
Free Classifieds have inconvenience that Ads are scrolled down as soon as new Ads are submitted. Thus visibility and Click Rate are significantly reduced.
AdLandPro offers an hourly resubmission service that avoids that problem. Additionally Ads are submitted to hundreds of Free Classified Websites.
A free AdLandpro account can be obtained here
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An additional source of Free Traffic are Traffic Exchanges. The working principle is similar: you provide traffic (i.e. by setting an especialWebsite as your Homepage in Browser) and you get back traffic from other users doing same. Usually you get Traffic in Ratio 1:2, this means you need to provide two page views to get one free page view for your business.
This sounds simple but is very practical: let´s assume you have a business selling food for pets. Obviously you are not interested to views websites related with other people trying to sell you same. But on other side you may be interesting to see other websites about Health&Nutrition. So you will get (=traffic exchange) Advertising from this Genre if your are interested to do so and exchange traffic for your Pet business.
The more people use Traffic Exchanges, more views you will get to your business. Furthermore, you will get additional page views (=traffic) by referring new customers. Most of Traffic Exchanges Systems provide also PRO Memberships, where you get paid if someone you have referred upgrade himself to PRO.
Traffic Exchanges have also a big advantage in comparison with Pay-Per-Click engines: the "cost" of traffic does not increase with number of advertisers.
There are hundreds of Traffic Exchanges in Web. I personally recommend to choose one of "TOP 10 Traffic Exchanges" tested by TrafficHoopla
http://www.traffichoopla.com
This company performs regular tests of most popular Traffic Exchanges systems on Net and publish results in their website.
All Traffic Exchanges allow option to refer new members. It is important for every provider to increase number of "clickers" to increase number of clicks to be distributed among community. For every new member, you will receive a number of "credits" to be used with your own advertising.
In last months, a new Traffic Exchange provider started using a complex system to distribute credits calling "syndicates". Traffic Syndicate 25 organize participants in "Syndicates". Every Syndicate has same number of participants. The "top 10" of every syndicate (measured by number of surfed pages) goes one Syndicate "up", receiving traffic from all syndicates bellow. This ingenious system allows to build "downlines" without really referring new participants, just by increasing own relative position through intensive surfing.
