Traffic , simply called visitors or customers are the deciding factor if your website will become successful in its purpose in the Web. Be it an online store selling physical or digital products, or a website providing services for a fee or site giving away free information, without your targeted or specific traffic, everything would be worthless. So if you are trying to make extra money online by building a blog or niche websites then this post is for you.
Before continuing, I want to elaborate that if you want to become famous or are building a large website in order to become an authority in a certain niche or market in the Web, then you will need all the traffic you could get and all the readers and subscribers interested in your topic. But if you are targeting a small market with less competition to make extra money online or have a steady stable income in the long run then you have to choose the right traffic that would earn you money.
Unlike online stores in the Internet, physical stores in your community rely greatly by their strategic location if people will come up and visit them. If it is located in a remote faraway place, do you think people will come and patronize it, unless of course if their customer service is great and the prices of their products are the lowest in the market. In the Internet, everything is different, there are no strategic locations to choose from for your website to be placed. You have to work your way in making your website known. The easiest way is to advertise your products or services, it is easy but also the most expensive. Another way is to use search engines by doing SEO (search engine optimization), if you could rank your website at the top of their search results, it means more targeted traffic for your site, more sales and greater conversion. Making extra money online is not that difficult but it requires a lot of work.
It is recommended that you chase after organic traffic (or traffic provided by search engines) because people will be searching what your website has to offer and what it is all about. Avoid going after traffic exchange or traffic from social sites cause it’s not going to give you plenty of earnings. Most of the people visiting your site in exchange for your visit has no interest in yours as you have no interest with their sites. It’s the same thing with social media, you can get hundreds or thousands of traffic but conversion will be no more than what it were before your site was visited. If you are planning to make extra money online, pool all your efforts in climbing the top of search results provided by search engines particularly Google.