| When a site owner wants to develop increased site | | | | These two questions should help weed out traffic |
| visitation they often rely on help from online companies | | | | building services that do not have your best interest in |
| that offer traffic building assistance. The sales pitch is | | | | mind. |
| aimed squarely at online businesses that may be in the | | | | Why? |
| average or below average sales category. | | | | It has been reported that many of these firms |
| The inference is often that there can be a significant | | | | approach traffic building in an ingenious, but less than |
| return on investment and that even a small portion of | | | | authentic way. These companies often develop free |
| converted customers will more than pay for the | | | | accounts on sites that deliver adult content. When the |
| investment. | | | | free page is accessed a coded page redirects the |
| Most of the customers that use traffic building | | | | visitor to your page. This simple redirection is why you |
| services are surprised when they find all the promised | | | | can gain the site visitors you wanted, but none of them |
| hits and none of the inferred sales. | | | | are interested in what you are selling. In fact, they may |
| The site bandwidth is minimized in a traffic-building | | | | be angry that what they thought they were going to |
| scheme some might describe as a cyber money pit. | | | | see did not appear. |
| Throw as much money in as you want and you still | | | | With millions of visits to sites with adult content it would |
| have nothing to show for it. | | | | not be surprising that a free account would result in |
| This is not to say there aren't reputable traffic building | | | | hundred, if not thousands, of hit. The end result may be |
| firms available, but you really should ask as many | | | | a bit like a Monster Truck enthusiast clicking on a link |
| questions as possible before you begin the process. | | | | for what they thought was Monster Truck information |
| You might consider asking for a comprehensive listing | | | | only to land on a site dedicated to knitting supplies. |
| of what sites your ecommerce site will be advertised | | | | All this is to say that the best methods for traffic |
| on. If they don't want to provide the information you | | | | building are generally organic in nature and long-term in |
| might move along. | | | | implementation. When you develop strong Search |
| You might consider asking if any free accounts have | | | | Engine Optimization (SEO) strategies, forum and blog |
| to be developed in order to implement the traffic | | | | posts, and knowledge-based content you have much |
| building strategy. | | | | better seeds from which to grow your online traffic. |