Do you need traffic?

Of course you need. When you're engaged in online business, traffic brings people and people brings money. There are plenty of methods, tools and programs able to generate traffic to any site. To choose the best for you, take care of following three questions.

1. The price.

   For a correct estimation you should have a price/visitor.

2. The conversion rate.

   That means to know the number of buyers from 100 visitors. I've seen in many reports that people consider a 2% conversion rate as a good one. Regarding this conversion rate, you cannot know or verify it from the very beginning. But if the traffic is targeted on your business you can expect to have a good conversion. What I want to say is that a good rate is close related to a high targeted traffic.

3. No spam danger.

   This is very important. In the light of the newest decisions, you can be out of business because of spam complaints.

Online discussion forums provide an excellent way to promote your website without paying any money. To start participating just browse the messages and you're in. You can ask questions, respond to requests for help or post any useful information that fits with the general topic of that discussion forum. Just add your website address or ad in your signature line at the bottom of each message. If you post good content, people who read your threads will also check out your website.

1. The price? It's zero.
2. Conversion rate ? If you take care to subscribe to forums close related to your business, you can expect a high targeted traffic.
3. Spam danger? You have no reason to be afraid of.