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moonshield
10-02-2004, 05:32 PM
Does any one here have a successful business without advertising for it? Are advertisements necessary for traffic or will search engine traffic do just fine?

Chris
10-02-2004, 05:35 PM
The only sites I actually have advertised are my sword site and my coupon site. All the others have all been promoted for free (other than the cost of my time).

michael_gersitz
10-02-2004, 09:34 PM
Successful can be obtained with quanity and quality.


There you have it, the secret to online business.

Mike
10-03-2004, 01:37 PM
I tried advertising a site of mine, but once I'd stopped the campaign not many visitors came back.

moonshield
10-03-2004, 02:56 PM
sweet... sounds good

incka
10-03-2004, 10:36 PM
It's not just SE traffic though, link exchanges will get you a lot of traffic.

moonshield
10-10-2004, 10:03 AM
link exchanges? What percentage of traffic does one get using these?

Mike
10-10-2004, 10:10 AM
I get quite a lot for my msn emotions site, but obviously it depends on where you link is being placed and what category your site is.

Emancipator
10-10-2004, 01:09 PM
good content is better then any long term advertising, since it results in repeat traffic and word of mouth. Also helps in getting links if you have good content on your site.

I get very little traffic from backlinks, maybe 5%, but it still helps. 50% of my traffic is repeat visitors hitting me from their favorites or direct request. The rest is google pretty much. Yahoo might as well not send me any traffic its so small :P

littlewhite
10-10-2004, 06:05 PM
SEO and advertising are better to be combined together.

Bojhan
10-11-2004, 07:12 AM
Indeed, today the mouth to mouth promotion isnt very effective anymore, advertising is good to *estalbisch* an name out there.

Emancipator
10-11-2004, 08:40 AM
bojhan i disagree. Word of mouth is the #1 source of my traffic.

moonshield
10-11-2004, 12:18 PM
word of mouth is interesting, because for myself... I dont know anyone that would have anything to do with my sites.