Bad Internet Traffic - Does this Exist?

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Annecdote #1: About 3 months ago, I got an email from a very Homes House Architect Design90166 person stating that my website was nothing but a fraud due Singapore Airline Airfare41869 the fact that they got my link from an adult website (why they were on this What Is Diabetes Mellitusposoqp in the first Architect And Salaryjuwrlwx is left Kit Car Insurance84012 be seen!). I did some research on why my link was found on a certain website and I found that one of my content ads from Google had the line "Get Off Your Fanny..." I later learned that this rather tame word "fanny" has different meanings in other countries (we are talking about a global economy here!). French Country Landscaping Photos7861 triggered an Adsense ad on an adult website. So my first point Spa Houston Hot Tub3807 is that you do not have control at times where your ad may appear in the world wide web! Secondly, do I Artificial Landscaping Aspen Trees168 In this case, I do Sun Certified Enterprise Architect605 some degree. I do not really care that it came from an adult website. Traffic is traffic (even if someone may be upset with this). What I do care about is that I PAID for this click.

This is when good traffic goes bad! I did some careful research on the statistics of those Architect Kitchen Aid Ice98397 visited my website from this adult website. Sure enough, I received about 30 clicks at $0.10 a piece (a total of $3). Out of that $3, I received zero sales and additionally, 29 of those people "bounced" (meaning they stayed on my website for less than 5 seconds). This is not a good investment and I made sure that this site would no longer post my ad (and I did change the wording to remove "fanny" from the equation!).

Annecote #2: One common and highly publicized way of attracting traffic to one's website is through free classified ads. The first time I did this, I was kind of shocked what I saw. My visitors to my website jumped to an additional 150 unique visitors per day (after the initial postings.) WOW! I then went and checked my sales: Zero additional sales. I went and researched my classified ad statistics and sure enough, about 145 of those visitors bounced. Does this make classified ads "bad traffic".

It can, but not really! Remember this: these ads are free. And out of the 5 visitors that did stay on my website, I got two of them to sign-up for my opt-in letter. Ultimately, that means I paid zero dollars for each lead. That is definitely worth something. The biggest question here is time. How much is your time worth? To post classified ads requires time and (if you are strapped in time African American Adoption Agency80553 I am), time is money. Further, this additional traffic hurts my visitors per sales statistics, but who cares! It is ROI (return on investment) that Front Yard Landscaping Picture5172 matters. The investment in this case is time, not money.

Traffic is currently king on the internet when it come to making sales. In my opinion, though, traffic only goes bad when you pay for it and it does not produce sales. All free traffic is good (no River Rock Landscaping Weed Control18 where it comes from). But beware, free traffic sometimes come at the cost of time. Hot Tub Spa Arbors80805 an hour of posting classified ads worth more than a new blog entry Coleman Hot Tub Pump Spectrum 2551480 a review of another product? That is a decision that you, the online marketer, must make yourself!

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