In the internet business there’s a saying that goes something like “traffic is the key.” As you know in order to make sales you have to have customers. On the internet the only way to have customers is to have visitors to your web site. And how does this happen? Well it CAN happen in several ways BUT some are worthless. Let’s talk about those first…
Perhaps the most worthless is the random chance that a person will type the url to your web site. There really is no chance at all really save an act of God because why would they type something randomly? and why you? So people need to know who you are or what your product is in order to make their way to your site. In other words you need to advertise in order to create web traffic. A slightly better way is to have a link on another of your own, or somebody else’s web site. The only Problem is in order to get people to your site there has to be people going to those other websites which again necessitates advertising. So “traffic is the key” but advertising is the key to traffic. So lets talk about advertising now.
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