“More is better.” “One can never have too much.” “The more the merrier.”

These familiar phrases all make sense, right? We live in a world where abundance is a good thing and quantity is king. And nowhere is this philosophy more prevalent than in the field of website performance analysis. Site managers are constantly trying to come up with ways to drive as much traffic to their site as they possibly can. On the surface they would appear to have good reasons for thinking this way. More traffic, generally speaking, translates to more visitors and more visitors would seem likely to yield more potential business.

But let’s step back and take a closer look. If you run a website, your ultimate goal is not exactly to bring in traffic; your goal is to bring in customers. And while you may be able to figure out how to drive large amounts of traffic to your site, what exactly does that traffic look like? You are looking for folks who intend to do more than just pop in and then leave. What you really want are people who are going to stick around and eventually convert. Let the tire-kickers stay home. It makes a whole lot more sense to focus on the folks who are serious about the stuff on your site.

Unfortunately, a lot of website managers focus too much on quantity and too little on the quality of their website visitors. They often find out the hard way that more traffic does not always translate to more real customers or to more actual sales. So how can you tell whether you are getting quality visitors to your site? Here are a few things you can look at:

1. See where your visitors are coming from.

If you know something about the type of visitor you are trying to attract, then one of the most valuable pieces of information you can learn is where your visitors are coming from. In other words, find out the web sites that visitors were navigating just prior to reaching your site. This type of information can easily be found in web traffic reports. If a high percentage of your visitors are being referred from a high-quality site, or from a site that you know specifically targets your ideal demographic, then you know you are getting good quality traffic.

2. Measure your repeat visitors.

Generally speaking, loyal visitors are high quality visitors. And one of the most reliable indicators of loyalty is the returning visitor rate. If most of your traffic is the drive-by type, where visitors stop in once never to be seen or heard from again, then a high volume of traffic is not necessarily that valuable. On the other hand, a large amount of repetition from your visitors is a good sign that there is a high level of customer commitment to your service or product.

3. Notice which pages on your site are being accessed the most.

On almost all websites, the default (home) page is the one that records the most visits. This is to be expected. However, if a large number of your home page visits are unique (meaning that the home page is the only page on your site visited), then your site may be experiencing low quality traffic. Your visitors are apparently not interested enough in your services or products to explore further. If on the other hand, one or more other pages on your site are showing a particularly high volume of traffic, it could mean that your visitors are showing interest in some or all of your site material.

4. Measure duration of site visits.

Average time on site is a great indicator of visitor engagement. The more time a person spends on your site, the greater the chance that he or she is truly interested in what your site has to offer. Of course, the statistic could also be deceiving because visitors may often leave a window open for long periods of time while going off and doing something else. But if you are seeing large numbers of very short site visits, it’s a pretty good sign that your site is not attracting visitors who are finding what they want.

5. Pay attention to bounce rate.

What is “bounce rate”? Simply put, it is the proportion of visitors that leave the site after viewing just one page. It is an indicator of site relevance. A high bounce rate is a sign that visitors are not interested in what you are offering or are not finding what they are looking for. A low bounce rate, on the other hand, is a good sign that your visitors are actually potential customers.

Is more always better? No, not by a long shot. We all want more people to look at us, but sometimes we confuse more visibility for better visibility. When assessing your website, you need to look at not just the quantity of visitors you are generating, but also the quality of those visitors. When you do this, you may often find that less is more.

Brendan Cruickshank has worked in the online job search industry for the last eight years. Because of his insightful perspective, he is often quoted by major publications on issues related to jobs and employment. Currently, he works for Juju.com.

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For any online business to succeed, it is important to have traffic on that website. Without traffic, a website will not make any sales and the online home business will fail. It is therefore important that you know how to drive traffic to your website.
You can drive traffic to your website on any budget, and this article outlines all the essential ways through which you can drive traffic to your website.

1. Provide fresh, unique and useful content on your website. People go online to look for information and also buy what they need. It is therefore important for you to have high quality and unique content on your website so that visitors to your website will spend more time on your website, bookmark your website and also buy from you. In addition, if you have lots of useful information on your website, you will be considered as an expert in your niche, and you will therefore easily get customers.

2. Optimize your website for search engines. In order for your site to be found on the search engines when people are looking for information, make sure that your niche keywords and phrases are in your headlines and in the rest of the content on your website. This means that your website will show up and will rank high when people look for those keywords on your website, and this will drive more traffic to your website.

3. Drive traffic to your website using PPC (Pay per Click) advertising. If you have the money to pay for the advertising, you can run an advert with Google Adwords or MSN Adcenter to drive traffic to your website.

4. Write and submit articles. This is a very powerful tool for driving traffic to your website. In all your articles, make sure you have a resources box or author’s biography which will your website’s URL. After reading your article, people will want to visit your website, so the more articles you write the more traffic you will drive to your website.

5. Participate in targeted forums. This is one of the most effective ways of driving traffic to your website. Make useful posts in the forums that are related to your niche, and have your website link in your signature.

6. Use viral marketing to drive traffic to your website. Write free e-books or short reports with a link to your website. Have a link to your website on your blog and on any press release that you write. These will drive traffic to your website.

7. Use video marketing to drive traffic to your website. You can create a video about your product or service that you offer on your website and post that on YouTube. Add your website link on that video, and this will make sure that people who view your video will also visit your website.

By following the seven tips outline above, you can drive a lot of traffic to your website, boost your sales and grow your online business profits.

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I was talking with Tyrone Shum on twitter a few days ago & Tyrone has a lot of experience with outsourcing so I asked him to create some content  all about Outsourcing For Traffic. So Tyrone created the video below which shows 3 ways you can use outsourcing to get more traffic & get top search engine rankings. So big thank you to Tyrone for creating such great content & you can visit his site at http://www.TyroneShum.com

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Facebook now accounts for 25% of all U.S. page views. The fact that one website is controlling so much online traffic is astounding & and from a marketing point of view that is an awful lot of traffic in one place!

On Black Friday Ryan Deiss is doing a live training session all about getting targeted traffic from Facebook, however there is a catch. It will set you back the princely sum of…… $7.00! Well I think 7 bucks is a worth while investment to learn how to get free & paid traffic from Facebook  and for everyone who registers for the webinar $7.00 is going to the make a wish foundation.

Here’s the line up for the live training:

	Ryan Deiss -I’ll be covering Facebook Ads including, what’s still working from my training in January and all the cool things I have figured out since then, as well as how to tie Facebook in to LOCAL! Just my part will take at least an hour.
	Kate Buck – Social Goddess extraordinaire will share her very best Facebook Fan Page secrets, how to build them, how to grab leads and even how to extract your Facebook Friends email addresses, skype ID’s and phone numbers
	Shane Stearns – The Contest Kid, will share how to run Facebook contests that can build your fan pages and ultimately your list by THOUSANDS of new contacts per week – and how to reverse engineer an email address to a social media contact in 6 seconds Flat! This is HOT!
	Laura Betterly – Facebook Mobile,  Did you know that 52% of all Facebook visits are from a mobile device? Laura is an EXPERT of mobile integration and Facebook, and she’ll share how you can profit from this EXPLODING Facebook/Mobile fusion.
	Julian Farley – Facebook SEO, Getting your Facebook fan page ranked at Google couldn’t be easier. Julian’s 1,2,3 and be completed in less than 1 hour and sends almost ANY Facebook page to Google’s page #1. He’ll share every detail.

So if you would like to take part in the live training & here from all the speakers about how they get traffic from Facebook then head over to the Black Friday Facebook Training Page & register.

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If you really want to increase traffic on your website, you may want to step back and take a look at the site from a visitor’s point of view. A good looking website increases its traffic naturally because those who visit it will likely come back and tell their friends about it as well. The presentation of your website says a lot about your business.

If you want to have a highly successful web business then it is necessary to have a nice website. With more than half of the world logging in web time each week, it is important for today’s businesses to maintain interesting and effective websites that pertain to their businesses. If you are interested in learning why a good looking website is important when trying to increase traffic, take a look at these three reasons.

Professionalism

The first view of your website by a visitor says a lot about your business as a whole. If your website looks cheap and self-made, then it is likely the visitor will not think your business operates in a professional manner. When it comes to dealing with customers on the web, you certainly want to look professional on all levels. If you are an online retailer, you want customers to feel comfortable ordering from you. If visitors don’t think your website looks professional, they may not feel comfortable doing so.

It is not necessary to have your website professionally created in order to appear professional. All you need to do is play around with different approaches to see which templates work best for your business. The more you read and learn about website creation, the better your site will look.

Educating yourself on the issue of website development is important when you are trying to do it on your own. If you find yourself overwhelmed, then you can always turn to a professional for the creation of your site. Therefore, to maintain a high level of professionalism, you need to have a good looking website. In turn, by creating the professional atmosphere, the consumers will likely return and maybe even bring their friends as well!

Entertaining

Not only should your website look professional, but it should also have an entertaining value. Entertainment is something that will draw visitors into your site in a deeper way. If they see an interesting link, they will likely examine your site in more detail. By offering things like contests and free giveaways, you can easily draw in more traffic.

If your site is boring however, it is unlikely you will be able to keep anyone there for more than a few seconds. You can even offer links to other exciting and informative websites, in order to act as an “in-between” for the fun. Anyone would rather visit a fun and entertaining site than a boring and plain website. If you offer enough excitement it is likely the regular visitors will let their friends know about your site also

Easy On the Eyes

A good looking website will also increase traffic if it is easy on the eyes. In addition to being professional and fun, your website should be easy on the eyes. This essentially means that it should be attractive as well as easy to function within. Choose colors and an arrangement that will appeal to a wide variety of people.

Using really bold colors will possibly hurt the eyes of viewers if they look at them for extended periods of time. You can always add splashes of colors in graphics and borders, but it is best to keep text in dark colors. Create an interesting layout, but not one that is so unique that it is difficult to use. If your website is easy to look at and visitors can navigate easily around it, they will want to come back.

If you focus on these three reasons to create a good looking website, your traffic will surely increase. Having a website that looks professional, entertaining, and is easy on the eyes is the key to inviting and maintaining web traffic for your website. So, if you are creating your site now, or if you want to overhaul your existing site, keep these three tips in mind to get the most traffic to your site as possible.

**IMPORTANT**  The above are great ways to increase traffic to your site but always remember Content Is King. Without relevant, regularly updated content it doesn’t matter what you do as people will not return to your site. So once you’ve got you’re content in place use the above to get more traffic & keep people coming back to your sites.

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No matter how much it’s talked about, no matter how many ebooks, videos, courses & tutorials are out there, the number one question from pretty much everyone doing business online is how can I get more traffic.

Well like I say in my sales video for the recession traffic system you either pay for traffic or you use free traffic strategies. So in this article I am going to go over some of places to buy paid traffic & some strategies to get free traffic.

Paying For Traffic

When it comes to buying traffic most people know about Pay Per Click. Places like Gogle Adwords & Facebook Ads are pretty well known but there are a lot of lesser know traffic sources out there where you can get traffic on the cheap.

Here are just a few lesser known traffic sources.

• Direct CPV
• Adsonar / AOL
• Ask Jeeves

Remember when you’re just casually browsing the web always keep an eye out for the advertisements & see what company is delivering them. There are literally hundreds if not thousands of online advertising networks out their so when it comes to getting traffic that pays from these networks the key is testing & tracking your traffic & conversions.

Testing and tracking is extremely important because it will allow you to see which traffic sources are getting you customers & making  you money & which traffic sources are loosing you money so you can scrap the traffic sources that don’t work & increase the ones that do thus increasing your profits.

Free Traffic

Free Traffic is great but can take a lot of work to get. The key is to create great content, make it viral if possible & let the viral nature of the web spread your content around so you get direct traffic & increase your search engine rankings. Of course you need to target the right keywords with your content.

Here are just a few ways to build links to your blog or website & increase your rankings in the search engines.

• Do guest posts for blogs in your industry
• Write articles & submit them to the major online article directories as well as other media organisations
• Create PDF reports that potential clients or customers will find very helpful & give them away for free. If they are useful they will get passed around & go viral.
• Make your content easy to share on social bookmarking & social networking sites.  (If you’re using wordpress there are plugins which will let you easily do this)
• Do videos! Youtube is the third most trafficed site in the world & Google includes YouTube videos in it’s search results. Also videos are a great medium to get your message or content across to potential clients & customers

So there you have a few ways to build links to your site, increase your search engine rankings & get free traffic.

But when it comes to picking between free traffic & paid traffic there isn’t much of a choice, you’re better off using both. Of course if you’re just starting out with a budget of zero then obviously focus on getting free traffic & then use profits to test some paid traffic sources.

If you would like more information on some lesser known traffic sources then visit Alpha Affiliates

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Jeff Johnson just released a new video series revealing 11 different ways to get targeted website traffic.

In the first video he just goes over some of his background and some ‘trouble’ he got into with Google!

But in the next few videos he’ll start revealing the 11 secret traffic sources.

Here’s what the first 5 techniques are called!

1. ”Youtube Bounceback”
2. ”Facebook Push”
3. ”Twitter Blog Bounce”
4. Blogs and “Feeder Sites”
5. ”Push Send, Get Traffic”

Sounds awesome I can’t wait!!

The videos are completely free you just need to opt in to get them. Click here to get free access to Jeff’s videos.

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A lot of mystery, lies, myths & legends seem to be floating out their in the internet about how to get top rankings in Google & while there may be some ‘blackhat’ techniques that will get you top rankings for a while there is really only one way to guarantee a steady stream of traffic from Google for keywords related to your website or blog.

You need to find keywords with low competition & decent traffic & then get other sites to link to your blog or website to increase its popularity or influence in Googles eyes.

Of course there are thousands of ways of doing this. Using social media, article marketing, guest posting on blogs & so on & in theory this sounds simple enough but it can be very time consuming, however there are two pieces of very helpful software which can really speed up the process of getting top Google rankings.

You can use Keyword Elite to find the right keywords for your blog or website & even spy on your competitors!

And you can use SEO Elite to start building links to your website,  increase your Google page rank & increase your ranking within Google.

Hope this helps with your search engine optimization strategy.

P.S. Here are a few keywords I rank pretty well for in Google.

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It’s time for another awesome retweet competition & your chance to win a free copy of The Recession Traffic System

Everyone who retweets the Two Step Traffic System blog post will automatically be entered into the draw to win a free copy of The Recession Traffic System.

To make it really easy for you, if you’re already logged into your twitter account you can just click the link below to send your retweet

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Other wise just copy and paste this message into your twitter account:
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Good luck!! The winner will be announced Thursday the 8th of July.

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I always say there is no secret to getting website traffic. You either pay for it or use free traffic strategies to get it for free.

Well the two step traffic system works like this. You first use free traffic strategies to start making some sales & get some profits & you then invest those profits into a scalable paid traffic source so you get more traffic & make more sales. By scalable paid traffic source I mean the more you spend the more traffic you will get (Example: Pay Per Click)

So to do step one here are some free ways you can start getting traffic:

- Write articles and submit to directories
- Do tutorial videos & upload them to YouTube and other video sharing sites
- Do guest posts on blogs
- Do newsletter swaps with people in your industry
- Exchange links with sites in your industry
- Take part in your industry’s most popular forums
- Use social media (facebook - twitter) to distribute your content & develop a follower base

The second part of the system is to then invest your profits in paid traffic. Now most people think of Google Adwords when it comes to paid traffic but if you’re just starting out in pay per click I actually wouldn’t recommend you use Adwords first. There are plenty of other pay per click engines with traffic just as targeted but your price per click will be a lot less!

So there’s the two step traffic system. I hope you start implementing some of the free tactics & once you see some profits then start investing those profits in scalable traffic.

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