List of NOT RECOMMENDED SOURCES OF TRAFFIC
Web rings
Banner exchanges
Traffic Exchanges
Free For All’s (FFA’s)
‘1 Million Hits’ programs
‘Submit Your Site to 100.000 search engines!’ services
Buying traffic from Paid to Surf programs
Web rings
Web rings are considered a bad neighbourhood by Google because it is seen as a way of artificially increasing link popularity. If Google says ‘Bad’ – Stay away.
Banner exchanges
Banner exchanges are a banner rotation system where your banner is usually sho wn 1 time for every 2 times you show someone else’s. You have no control over what banners that are displayed and how the banners look. This is not such a harmful one to participate in but it is less likely that it will bring you much traffic.
Traffic Exchanges
Traffic exchanges are often more annoying then rewarding and they consist only of other webmasters that want exactly the same as you, and have no traffic themselves. Some of these exchanges uses pop ups, pop under windows and exit pops to display the links of the others in the exchange. Many people find this extremely annoying and it is not a recommended source of traffic.
Free For All’s (FFA’s)
FFA’s is considered a bad neighbourhood and spam sites, so you would not want your link there. Usually the sites exist to collect email addresses which are used for spam or ‘bulk email marketing’ as it is called.
‘1 Million Hits’ programs
Do not buy traffic from people who are promising you ‘1 Million hits’, these programs usually do not bring you anything but headaches and an empty wallet. Some of the ‘1 Million Hits’ programs are using robots to visit the website they have sold their ‘service’ and the website never sees any real visitors.
A hit is not the same as a visit. A ‘hit’ is counted every time a file of your website is read. So if you have many different graphics on a site each one will count as a hit. Lets say you have 10 graphics, then every time that page is loaded 10 hits are counted. So if the same person clicks back and forth between pages, or even reloads the page 10 new hits will be counted each time. This is a complete bogus method of counting, and hits practically do not mean anything.
The only good method of counting the popularity of your site is to see how many unique visitors it gets, but in the end the only thing that counts is how many visitors that have your most wanted response. Your most wanted response can be buying a product, signing up for a newsletter or clicking on an ad.
The targeted visitors that convert into customers, recurring visitor, and newsletter subscribers or into ’fans’ are the visitors you want. Not hits, but people. So in the end it is not even the amount of traffic, but the quality of the traffic and your ability to get them to produce your most wanted response that matters
‘Submit Your Site to 100.000 search engines!’ services
Do not buy submission packages that promises to ‘Blast Your Site To 100.000 Search Engines’ Submitting your site to these 100.000 sites will just bring you spam email and no traffic. It is not needed to submit your site to search engines and the 3 that will bring you traffic are Google, Yahoo and MSN. They will all find you via links.
What is a good idea is to make sitemaps for Google and Yahoo and submit that. This will need some more explanation, and is not essential in the stage you are now check back on
Internet-marketing-Startup.com when your site is finished.
Buying traffic from Paid to Surf programs
Buying traffic from Paid to Surf programs is also not recommended. These pro grams give people a few cents each time they visit a website and stay there for a certain amount of time. This will not give you targeted traffic and potential customers, but visitor that keeps track of how many seconds he has stayed n a website, to know when he can move on to the next.
Also not recommended is buying traffic from people that call you on the telephone and promise you ‘Top Ranking’ and so and so many visitors unless you are very sure that they can deliver.
