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The Path to REAL Workable Traffic


I'm sure the you are aware or have at least heard that some of the top traffic strategies like: article marketing, article writing, article submissions, pay per click advertising, media buys, blogging and of course SEO.

I do agree that many of these techniques can be properly used and marketing funnels set up to make them very effective. In fact you should focus on these as they are all real and 100% legitimate.

The problem is that in order to really make any of these techniques to work well for you, you MUST become knowledgeable in that specific kind of traffic generation technique; something FEW people want to do or have the time to invest doing.

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Guaranteed Traffic?

It has been my experience that almost all "guaranteed traffic" sites are little more than frauds. You pay money and they deliver supposedly high quality traffic and you just sit back and make money.

Yeah right.

Here are some of the ways they rip you off;

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Traffic Getting Software

Almost daily there are the latest "secret release" about how some dude struck it rich because they uncovered the latest "plugin" or freak algorithmic discovery software, or how some underground internet marketer from Russia broke the traffic code . . . that allows you to hack the internet and drive tons of traffic to your website with the push of a button.

In the many years of marketing products online I have never seen anything software based that works like these ridiculous claims say.

The ads these guru's run make this stuff sound cool and sleek and how fortunate you are to have found this software and how this can't stay on the market long to protect the product so you had better sign up or else miss out.

Don't be FOOLED! 

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Free Viral Traffic Scams

Most are unworkable or just feed your emails to a list that someone will try to sell you crap - and of course you will be stuck promoting other people's product(s) first before you see any real traffic or forced to "upgrade" to the paid version to make it work.

I have seen this variation in all kinds of marketing. In general you are told your URL will go viral and you add your website to a list of say 5 other people who have done the same. Now go somewhere and send this to some people and they will do the same causing your ad / URL to be seen by millions . . .

This seems probable and the math makes sense; but the real issue here is human nature - the focus of this tool is supposed to be to get people to look at your site. The problem is just like the traffic exchange, or FFA page issue; NOBODY cares about you or your business unless you give them a really good reason to do so and they only care about their success, thus there is no motivation to seriously consider visiting your site and using your offer!

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Blast It Ads, FFA's And Your Ad to Millions

You are told for a fee (or your email) you can blast an ad to MILLIONS of places that will explode your traffic, sales and help your lists grow.

What you are NOT told is that these free for all sites (called FFA's) simply place your ad on some buried low value website page by a bot and your ad will NEVER be seen by anyone.

Sure your ad will be either sent to or posted to millions of these kinds of sites - yet if no human ever sees these ads . . . what good are they?

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Ad Swaps, Solo Ads and Mailing Lists... BEWARE!
 
Many people have discovered they can build a business selling ads in the form of mailings if they have a good size list to offer.

At first glance, this seems to be a great way to build traffic; pay a little money get a guru to do a mailing for you to their list.

You can make money selling your products and even grow your own mailing list at the same time.

Brilliant!

While this is very possible, beware. Here are the caveats:

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The TOP All Time Traffic Scams - Traffic Exchanges




 

If you ever wanted to be a hamster on a wheel then feel free to join one of the many traffic exchanges that exist online.

What amazes me is that many people still love traffic exchanges despite the fact that very little of their traffic ever converts into anything of value.

 Exchanges look flashy, colorful and it always appears like there is a whole lot going on from a marketing perspective that can benefit you.

I have seen people devoting hours each day "clicking" like mad to earn credits and what is equally ridiculous about this is that on the other side of the computer are equally desperate marketers clicking as fast as they can to do the same.

Many of the top exchanges even have incorporated a social aspect and other related MLM like services to keep you interested and yes, clicking like crazy; OR investing your money to sell your site views to others who are frantically clicking.

The problem is, NOBODY is actually LOOKING at anyone else's offers and the truth is these services are only great if you OWN the traffic exchange.

While traffic exchanges can and do send traffic to your site(s) most people discredit the psychology behind what makes traffic exchanges tick.

People believe that they are getting good quality traffic and earning visits by clicking and visiting other sites; yet most people are clicking like mad and never STOP look or engage ANY of the ads / sites that are displayed because there is no incentive to do so!

The few marketers that understand this make sure their site IMMEDIATELY GRABS the attention of visitors because you have just a few seconds to say something that will break the "clicking trance" most people are under.

Traffic exchanges work well by taking advantage of newbie's. They are duped to buying traffic, signing up to lots of offers and eventually they come to the realization that NOBODY CARES about their site(s)!

Why?

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Most marketers are lost in the fog of information overload. Because of this, they eventually are lured by a guru claiming to have all the answers to their marketing woes.

The guru also promises you can make a fortune by just following their advice.

Of course that advice comes with a hefty price tag.

So what is the truth? It is a land of smoke and mirrors, a carnival of lies that is directed at you for the sole purpose of taking your MONEY

Don't kid yourself here. Most gurus want to turn YOU into their affiliate machine, recurring ATM and USE YOU for their traffic regardless of what most promise to teach you.

Some gurus are actually SETTING YOU UP TO FAIL! They know that the MORE you fail, the more you will SPEND out of sheer frustration.

You will be given just enough information to get your interest up and then you will be asked to spend more money on the latest shiny fad the guru has.

Yet the REAL TRUTH is that many of these gurus laugh at you as being too stupid to know any better.

How Do I Know This?