Traffic on the Internet to any website comes from two types of sources. Either someone has paid for it or it comes organically by various sources and content distribution channels.
The paid type of website traffic is really a simple to understand. You pay someone else who has already visitors coming in thousands to place a small ad on his/her website and you will receive a percentage of that traffic to your depending upon how creative you are in writing that ad. This means that even if you have a lot of money to buy advertising space on other websites, this does not ensure that you will always get best quality traffic. How much visitors you get largely depend upon your ad text or the message you have put in front of the crowd.
The second type of traffic normally termed as free traffic comes organically. these are the people that look for their problems at search engines, article directories and find your content posted. If they find it useful, you get a visitor.
Some of the major sources of free traffic are search engines, article directories, banner exchanges, email lists, and many more.
But there’s a problem with free traffic. The word "free" itself is so illusive that everyone gets attracted to it. Because of it's free nature every other person doing business on the Internet will try to do it, creating a lot of (healthy) competition. Look, it's simple you are not Tom hanks in the movie "Cast Away" lost on some lonely island.
If it's free, it's got to have other fellow humans trying to make an entry into it. So it takes a lot of action to get noticed when you are using free services. But the effort is worth it. If you are ready to take massive action, you will get massive results in fairly small amount of time.
That is why they say "Time Is Money"
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