The mistake most people make, is that any articles submitted is always mediocre in content information. Spend a month doing some cutting edge research, compile your report and submit. Instead of gaining a few extra site visits a day, you will get hundreds of extra traffic each day from one quality article.

Go for quality not quantity!

I want real visitors, not link-clicking monkeys. If they are ohnly intereste in getting clicks to their site, I don’t want them!

By the way, isn’t it “Word of Mouth Traffic” that was meant instead of “World of Mouth Traffic” ? Sorry to nitpick.

People who find something they like will usually look at a couple of posts — rather than bailing out at the end of the obligatory 30 seconds they need to get a surfing credit.

When I used to use a blog traffic service, I found my pageviews equalled my unique visitors. There wasn’t much variation.

When I started getting organic traffic, I found that people looked at four or five posts. Pageviews increased as well because people were looking beyond the homepage.

If you write about the right topics and have a passion about your subjects, people will come to your blog.

At this point I get about 100 visits a day. That’s a bit more than I was ever getting with BlogExplosion. It’s not even all that much. I needed to surf almost 100-200 sites to get the same ammount of traffic. Each site requires you to be on the page for 30 seconds, which means you’re easily spending 100 minutes, or two hours surfing.

I work a full time job (from home, but it still is 8 hours of my day) and I couldn’t justify spending this time surfing around after a few weeks, because the traffic explosion wasn’t significant anymore. I felt that was time taking away from my real life, writing for my blog, and coding for my web sites.

A lot of the sites I saw were across the board from being interesting reads, to being quite out of my tastes. I also figured, if I just wait 30 seconds just for the page to pass, I bet others are doing the same thing. So I’m getting 100 people who probably aren’t even that interested. You can narrow by topic, but my understanding is most people didn’t.

I’ve been privileged to post my content (even older content) around the web and get it picked up by other sites and that’s worth a lot more than arbitrary visitors.

If time is money, let’s say my time is $25 USD/hr, that’s $50/day for 100 hits, I’m much better off spending that money on targetted advertising (but I don’t).

one question: what is ‘Organic Traffic’?

Watch out for the companies that claim to give you 1000, 10,000, 10,000, uniques for a small flat fee. Usually it won’t work. If you can choose keywords that relatively not competitive, you can maybe net a few bucks, but if you try highly competitive keywords you won’t see much action on your site.

Another problem is if you are using Adsense for your revenue. Back in the day when I was testing all the “crap traffic”, I received a polite email from the Adsense team, questioning the quality of my traffic source.

I got rid of the particular “crap traffic” source, let Adsense know, and I was back in their good books.

There are only two PPC networks I trust right now. Adwords and Overture – and I also trust that even with those networks I have to know what I’m doing when I setup a campaign or I’ll lose money….pronto.

Yes, I totally agree with you. Traffic from these networks is – as you said – empty, to say the least. I once had an adventure with I need hits (I won’t promote their link) which worked well on the technical side, but my site’s logs showed that no one on they sent was interested in the site I was promoting.

Of course they are honest, because they don’t even promise, anyone would be…

regards
Zsolt

I stopped using BE because of the possible monetization conflict but also because eventually incoming links and search engine results were generating more traffic than exchange programs and it was no longer worth the effort.

It all comes down to whether or not a few extra visitors are worth the risk of being banned from ad programs and search engines. With that being said, the infamous Mook Jon guy from Sitepoint fame is actually doing a study using all sorts of traffic sources. Though he hasn’t posted any results yet, you can check out the progress at his blog http://www.aojon.com/category/traffic/ or on the Sitepoint forums http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=384371.

Maybe he’ll come up with something that actually works.