What is Good Website Traffic and What is a Waste of Money?

There are many different ways to get websiteis even remotely resembling quality traffic or not.
visitors to your site. If you are not tracking yourOn the flip side of that, traffic that comes from the
results, you will never know what is good websitesearch engines will spend anywhere from a minute to
traffic and what is a waste of money. Even if youtwo minutes on your site if you've got a decent
do primarily free advertising methods, you arepage for them to look at. The reason for this is
investing your time and need to get the best returnyou'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 goodbuying thousands of visitors.
website traffic is, is to install the Google AnalyticsYou can see the same results in various other forms
code on all of my web pages. This provides aof traffic too. For example, traffic that comes from
tremendous amount of information about the visitorsa 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 tothat 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 canbookmarking a blog post. I know I can say this for a
buy 10,000 visitors for $30. Generally, these are notfact because I've seen firsthand the results for this
worth the $30 that you spend on them and here istraffic.
why.You need to find out what is good website traffic
If you have Google analytics on your pages you willfor your site. The quality of traffic is much more
see that the average time that these type ofimportant 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 likea quality visitor will give you more of those.
this, but you can do your own survey and see if this