| There are many different ways to get website | | | | is even remotely resembling quality traffic or not. |
| visitors to your site. If you are not tracking your | | | | On the flip side of that, traffic that comes from the |
| results, you will never know what is good website | | | | search engines will spend anywhere from a minute to |
| traffic and what is a waste of money. Even if you | | | | two minutes on your site if you've got a decent |
| do primarily free advertising methods, you are | | | | page for them to look at. The reason for this is |
| investing your time and need to get the best return | | | | you're getting targeted traffic from the search |
| back for the amount of hours that you are spending. | | | | engines and you're getting non-targeted traffic from |
| One thing I found helpful to understand what good | | | | buying thousands of visitors. |
| website traffic is, is to install the Google Analytics | | | | You can see the same results in various other forms |
| code on all of my web pages. This provides a | | | | of traffic too. For example, traffic that comes from |
| tremendous amount of information about the visitors | | | | a well written article may spend two to three |
| that are coming to your site. | | | | minutes on your site and visit more than one page. In |
| For example, you know where a visitor comes to | | | | that case, it is worth writing a good article and |
| your site from, how long they spend on your site, | | | | getting it onto some of the top article directories. |
| how many pages they visit, and much, much, more. | | | | Other methods of advertising that do produce quality |
| This is extremely valuble for the following reasons. | | | | traffic include forum marketing, and social |
| You'll see ads all over the Internet where you can | | | | bookmarking a blog post. I know I can say this for a |
| buy 10,000 visitors for $30. Generally, these are not | | | | fact because I've seen firsthand the results for this |
| worth the $30 that you spend on them and here is | | | | traffic. |
| why. | | | | You need to find out what is good website traffic |
| If you have Google analytics on your pages you will | | | | for your site. The quality of traffic is much more |
| see that the average time that these type of | | | | important than the quantity. Ultimately you are |
| visitors spend on your site is less than five seconds. | | | | looking for positive responses from your visitors and |
| Now that may not be true for every company like | | | | a quality visitor will give you more of those. |
| this, but you can do your own survey and see if this | | | | |