Traffic? What is it?
Sunday, February 10th, 2008Hiya fellow Dare2Clickers it’s Saturday!! Wheeeehaaaa. And what do you plan to do today? Hopefully your day will include a stop at the forum over at Dare2Click.com. Besides being nice to look at, there’s a chance you could win 3 months at Pro2 level. To find out how, simply read your weekly Dare2Click.com newsletter or read the posting in either “Feel good corner” or “The Introduce Yourself” thread on the forum. I think you’ll all enjoy this one.
Today the thought I’ve had is to begin to explain Traffic. Over the next 3-4 blogs, I’ll attempt to show you 1) What traffic is; 2) Why you need traffic. ; and 3) Where to get traffic.
So here comes Number one, What is Traffic?
I began my journey on line roughly 2 years ago. When I started, I had no idea what to expect. I figured I’d just look up the “way to earn money” on line and poof, the cheques would roll in. Well, I’ve since seen three cheques and they were all from survey companies, who apparently have money to waste. Who sends a cheque for $2.50?? So, being rather stubborn, I forged on.
Then I found out about surfing. From the very first day, folks, I was hooked. I had no idea what I was doing, I just know I enjoyed it. I had joined a very pro-surfing networking site that had plenty of T.E.’s for me to join. I think when I first started, there were 42 or 43 different t.e.’s for me to join. I did and also joined ones on my own. A catchy ad, an attractive bonus package, I was putty in their hands.
I spent hours a day surfing at different t.e.’s advertising the site I had joined. I competed for referrals, top surfer, any contest that was running, I was in it. I ended up with over 140 T.E.’s. Try surfing 140 sites some time. Not divided over a week but every day! You see somewhere I heard that to get on referral, you needed to have 250 unique hits to your site. Think about it for a moment. 140 sites * 250 unique hits = 35000 surf sites required. Phewww forget it, I was burnt out.
I began to read about various surfing methods how to set up your browser to maximize your exposure. Sure that worked for a while but inevitably I found myself surfing even more. Hey , wait a minute, where are the time-saving how-to’s that I needed. Of course, no matter how many methods, how many different browsers I downloaded I was not going to get anywhere until I weeded out the slow sites and concentrated on the worthwhile sites.
Although I began to see a better return of hits, they still were not geared towards me. So what was I missing, where did I go wrong? It was then I read a report that opened my eyes to both why I was surfing and how I should be surfing.
We all know the importance of building a mailing list. But where was I sending the traffic? It certainly was not benefiting me. I needed a place of my own. Somewhere to re-route my traffic. Just like a rest top on the freeway, I needed a reason for traffic to come to my site. I need to re-route all the traffic I was generating. Fact is, I didn’t even have a site! I started to read more and more articles about surfing, traffic, the whole nine yards. I read so many different surfing methods, tried a few, ended up in the same situation, still having nowhere to send my traffic. I created some great down lines, but never advertised anything to them fearing I would alienate them. And it all came down to the same thing. I needed to have a place to send traffic, which meant deciding what I wanted to be “MY PRODUCT’ or “MY NICHE”.
So what have I learned so far? Traffic is important. I need a place to send my traffic. I need unique hits AND I need to have a responsive, active list.
Next time: Where have all the surfers gone?
See you soon team.
Camille Thomson aka curioscat
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. So charge up that mouse, sign up at the forum, and don’t forget to bring your intestinal fortitude… C’mon, I DARE Ya
