How to Test Your Traffic Sources Part I
In an online business, traffic is basically equal to money or profits.
Traffic - meaning visitors to your website.
It is assumed by now that your traffic is targeted.
For that, most of your time will be spent on trying to drive visitors to your website and then being able to sell a lot of products.
With a lot of people going through the same strategy, however, it is important to know if you're on the right track.
For most people who are venturing into online home business, traffic sources mostly consist of around two to three sources namely search engine optimization (SEO), pay per click (PPC) and then some text link ads that you have to shell out money for.
Below are some good traffic sources which you may want to test especially if you will undergo a home based online business.
1) Cost per action (CPA) networks - This is a phrase that is commonly used in online advertising.
CPA means an advertiser pays a person for doing a particular action, mostly stemming from sales or registrations.
2) Social networking - Popular examples of this is by joining sites like MySpace, Facebook or Friendster.
3) Social bookmarking websites - This refers to websites wherein people can leave bookmarked sites or URLs of pages that they think would interest others.
Examples of these websites include "Del.
dot cio dot us" and "Digg.
" 4) By submitting a video to popular video sites.
You can check if such is a good traffic source if it gains good feedback from a site like YouTube.
5) Press Release.
You can write this yourself or you can assign someone to write a press release about your site or your business.
This also refers to submitting the same press release to various PR sites.
6) Directory Submissions - submissions can be done on your own or through paid directory submission, mass directory submissions and many more.
7) Forums.
These can also refer to online message boards.
You can post your thoughts on relevant topics and at the same time put your link on your signature just in case a fellow visitor of the forum wants to get to know you.
8) Blog posting.
This refers to being able to post comments in other people's web logs or blogs.
You can post your comments on these blogs but always remember to keep them meaningful, informative and relevant.
No SPAM allowed.
A common mistake committed by others is that they immediately put their sales pitch in any blog site that they encounter.
It is impersonal and irritating for the owners of the blog.
They will then either block that commenter or will likely report you as a spammer.
Traffic - meaning visitors to your website.
It is assumed by now that your traffic is targeted.
For that, most of your time will be spent on trying to drive visitors to your website and then being able to sell a lot of products.
With a lot of people going through the same strategy, however, it is important to know if you're on the right track.
For most people who are venturing into online home business, traffic sources mostly consist of around two to three sources namely search engine optimization (SEO), pay per click (PPC) and then some text link ads that you have to shell out money for.
Below are some good traffic sources which you may want to test especially if you will undergo a home based online business.
1) Cost per action (CPA) networks - This is a phrase that is commonly used in online advertising.
CPA means an advertiser pays a person for doing a particular action, mostly stemming from sales or registrations.
2) Social networking - Popular examples of this is by joining sites like MySpace, Facebook or Friendster.
3) Social bookmarking websites - This refers to websites wherein people can leave bookmarked sites or URLs of pages that they think would interest others.
Examples of these websites include "Del.
dot cio dot us" and "Digg.
" 4) By submitting a video to popular video sites.
You can check if such is a good traffic source if it gains good feedback from a site like YouTube.
5) Press Release.
You can write this yourself or you can assign someone to write a press release about your site or your business.
This also refers to submitting the same press release to various PR sites.
6) Directory Submissions - submissions can be done on your own or through paid directory submission, mass directory submissions and many more.
7) Forums.
These can also refer to online message boards.
You can post your thoughts on relevant topics and at the same time put your link on your signature just in case a fellow visitor of the forum wants to get to know you.
8) Blog posting.
This refers to being able to post comments in other people's web logs or blogs.
You can post your comments on these blogs but always remember to keep them meaningful, informative and relevant.
No SPAM allowed.
A common mistake committed by others is that they immediately put their sales pitch in any blog site that they encounter.
It is impersonal and irritating for the owners of the blog.
They will then either block that commenter or will likely report you as a spammer.