What is the Most Effective Way to Get Traffic for a Confused Beginner?

There are so many different traffic programs and traffic scams out there that it is really hard to keep them all straight.

The bottom line is, no matter how much traffic you get, if it is not targeted to your niche, it is pretty much useless. That is why most traffic programs do not work, and it is why most guaranteed traffic is a complete waste of money.

There are a few things that bring in traffic:

1) Articles you write and publish (for proof, go to ezinearticles.com, go to the expert authors page, and see that I now have 1007 articles published – trust me, if it did not work, I wouldn't write an average of 5000 words per day, every day.

2) Traffic you get by swapping emailings with other marketers. Unfortunately, if you do not already have at least 2000 subscribers, you are not going to get many takers on that. So you probably cannot use that source of traffic yet.

3) Traffic you get from Google Adwords. The only bad thing about it is that you have to do a lot of testing before you figure out which keywords, which ads, and which squeeze pages work best for you with Adwords – and it can easily cost you $2000 in clicks before you figure it out – so if you don't have $2000 you can risk losing, it is not even an option. If you do choose to go that route, buy one of Perry Marshalls' books.

The bottom line is, for a beginner – use article marketing. Hands down, it is the best way for a beginner or an intermediate (anybody making less than $10,000 per month online) to get traffic.