Getting free traffic with WordPress

Traffic is obviously the lifeblood of any internet business. You can have the greatest product, website, etc., in the world, but without a steady flow of traffic, you won’t make any money with it.

There are many ways to generate traffic. Pay-per-click marketing such as Google AdWords is the quickest way to start getting targeted traffic to your site. The problem there, of course, is that it’s paid traffic. If your offer isn’t converting well yet, or if you’re brand-new to internet marketing and simply want to build a list for future affiliate promotions or product launches, paying for traffic today isn’t going to work out for you.

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Traffic Generation: Not as hard as you think

It’s well-known that I’ve been using Google AdWords for as long as I’ve been marketing online – nearly seven years! Having said that, I’ve also been diligent about generation traffic from other sources as well. While I’m not a proponent of traditional SEO on your own site – altering content & copy to make the search engines happy – I certainly exploit every free source of traffic available.

(In case you’re wondering, I’m such an anti-SEO person for the simple fact that you must optimize your sites for conversions, not SEO. I use external sites to drive traffic to my high-converting marketing site. I don’t mess with my site’s copy, content, and structure to make Google happy. No way. Not ever.)

Having said all that, I still spend a large amount of money on Google AdWords every month. Except for the past few days, that is, while my account was temporarily “Google Slapped” due to landing page issues that have since been corrected.

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