The Truth About Traffic

[Guest MarketingYouControl]

I have to highly recommend Charlie Pages blog post

"The Truth About Traffic" :

 

He explains how high-quality-traffic and low-quality-traffic
differs. And why you need to look into the key element 
of "giving before receiving" and giving QUALITY.

 

He also points out why Safe Lists and Traffic Exchanges,
free postings and auto postings are giving you "clicks"
but low quality visitors (if any real visitors at all).

 

Read the whole blog post here

 

PS: In case you do not know who Charlie Page is,
he is the owner of directoryofezines.com and a legend

in Internet Marketing.

[Guest MarketingYouControl]

another excerpt from it:

 

That’s very, very important.

Here’s a true story. I bought a half million guaranteed visitors from a very well-known site. It was not the cheap stuff. I sent them to the Directory of Ezines, which is a page that I know converts very well. I’ve owned the DOE for 10 years, I know exactly what our numbers are. The result was zero sales. I lost $1,100 in that experiment. I don’t mind. I learned something and that’s good.

Here’s another true story about safe lists which I think are not so safe. One client joined all of the top safe lists. He spent five hours per day for three months sending emails. He made an honest-to-goodness effort. He sent 200 million emails. It’s hard to believe.

He had zero sales and he made zero money. His inbox was flooded with offer after offer. I spoke to him on the phone. He said, “I can’t read all of this email. I said, “Of course you can’t.”

How could this happen? How could he send 200 million emails and make no sales. It’s because the way that safe lists are supposed to work makes no sense at all. People join safe lists for one reason. That is to send email, not to read email.

Safe lists actually teach you how to avoid reading the email you will receive by using a free email address. I know because I joined a bunch of them last year to test it out.

Here’s my question. If everyone is using safe lists to send email but no one is reading the email then how is anyone going to buy anything? The answer is that they don’t. He lost about $200. What is worse is that he lost three months of time.

Read the whole blog post here

[John Priestley]

I have to agree. I am also a member of a number of sites where people "share" their opportunities, but everyone appear to be a seller and no one a buyer. I can think of more enjoyable ways of wasting time (smile).

 

Have a good one, John.

[John Gretic]

I agree...

[kpc1280]

He explains how high-quality-traffic and low-quality-traffic

differs. And why you need to look into the key element 

of "giving before receiving" and giving QUALITY.

 

I agree. I had this experience today when a fellow network marketer gave me permission to post to her friends on a social media site, and I naturally wanted to give in return. I gave her permission to post to my friends.

[Sean Supplee]

not all safelists are the same and some offers convert while others don't. Simply put every niche out there has a unique target audience you cant blame the safelist unless of course it is very poorly managed. I dont see how you can sit there and say they dont work at all. Maybe they didn't work on your ad but they work on my ads and I make few thousand from them each month. But there are about 70% of these so called safelists that are just complete junk. That goes for the traffic exchange world though as well

[roy]

I have to agree. I am also a member of a number of sites where people "share" their opportunities, but everyone appear to be a seller and no one a buyer. I can think of more enjoyable ways of wasting time (smile).

 

Have a good one, John.

I agree. I have been advertising on a number of sites with little or no results.

[DA Riley]

Also have to consider results differ from person to person.

Has a lot to do with know, like and trust.

 

The page advertised has a lot to do with conversions as well..

does it stand out. Is it different then what surfers are used to seeing?

[John Priestley]

I was told that you should use a tracker to see where the best results are coming from. I have just started this and am looking forward to seeing where my money is best invested.

 

Watch this space (smile).

 

Best regards, John.

[Darren Olander]

I was told that you should use a tracker to see where the best results are coming from. I have just started this and am looking forward to seeing where my money is best invested.

 

Watch this space (smile).

 

Best regards, John.

 

Yes, that is huge! 

[Matt Koshko]

As Darren said...that's huge, John! Tracking is essential - how can you possibly make improvements if you don't know what's working/not working?