Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Generating traffic- the mistakes you should avoid

Some webmasters regard traffic as something very precious to the extent they go out of their ways just to get them. Professional webmasters know better than to drive aimless traffic to their website. There is such thing as quality traffic and traffic that are not even worth your time.

Traffic, in its very essence, is good. However, most websites has a limit as to how much traffic they can accommodate per month. The amount of traffic you can direct to your website is determined by your web hosting service. They assign a number to all the sites they host so that the resources of their servers are not maximized. If they don't do this, the other websites they are hosting will be affected.

The average bandwidth that web-hosting companies give nowadays is 1 Gigabyte. And if you exceed that amount, your website is bound to show that annoying error message saying 'Page Cannot Be Displayed'. Web hosting companies are forced to do this so as not to experience downtimes on their servers. Imagine the impact to your business if your website can't be accessed at the most crucial time. People would think that either you have shut down your service without prior notice or you are simply unreliable.

Your goal as a web master is not just to direct traffic. You have to make sure that you generate targeted traffic to your site. Untargeted traffic is only a waste of your time and your resources. It is a must that you settle with quality, targeted traffic all the time. This means that the visitors whom you direct to your site through your promotional activities are the people who are genuinely interested, willing to buy, or are actually looking for the product, service, or information that you have.

Some webmasters resort to paying for traffic. This move is acceptable, but if and only if you are totally sure that the traffic you are paying for is good traffic. You have no way of knowing, really. Because all you can really check is the visitor's country of origin. Whether or not these people really want to check your product or avail of your service, you would only know after auditing the monthly statistics of your website and comparing it against your sales figures.

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