Telling Good Traffic from Bad
Posted on : 20-06-2010 | By : Ramon Rivas | In : Affiliate Marketing, Internet Marketing
Tags: Affiliate Marketing, Affiliate Program, Age Interests, Bottom Line, Commissions, Conversions, Dependable Sources, Easy Prey, Entrepreneur, Exit Traffic, High Volume, Intense Desire, Internet Marketing, Niche Topic, Payment Processing, Paypal, Processing Service, Safe List, Savvy Business Person, Scams, Shopping Cart Software, Targeted Traffic, Volume Traffic, Website Owner
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Everyday that goes by you can bet that any serious website owner is wondering how to get more traffic to their site. This intense desire to generate more clicks makes virtually any online entrepreneur easy prey to many of the traffic schemes and scams that pervade the Internet.
Wild promises of high volume traffic and big bucks often separate even the most savvy business person from their money because they want to believe the promises made by these traffic hucksters. The problem is that high volume doesn’t necessarily translate into a high sales rate.
The visitors who come to your website as a result of a desire to find out more on a specific, niche topic, not as a result of exit traffic or membership in a safe list where members simply pitch each other. Good traffic comes from individuals clicking links on topics targeted to their interests and getting directed to a website containing information they want and expect as a result of clicking the link. The bottom line is that when you get right down to it the best and most dependable sources of targeted traffic come from links that individuals click.
Being able to determine which clicks actually result in sales is vital. To track conversions from click to sales, depending on the type of shopping cart software you are using, you can then create a custom order confirmation page – i.e. the page that is displayed once the transaction is complete. This is very easy to do if you’re using a payment processing service such as PayPal.
It’s well known that each search engine and each web site has a particular type of user (age, interests etc.), and they’ll all have different triggers leading them to buy. All of these things are important for you to know so that your advertising dollars will be spent in the most advantageous places.


