Paid Or Free Traffic

Free vs. Paid Traffic

You don’t have to pay to advertise your website and bring 

traffic to it. In fact, there are a number of methods, namely social media related, that enable you to drive traffic to your website for free.

However, free of monetary investment doesn’t truly mean free. Something many Internet marketers forget is that time also equals money. If you’re starting out on a small budget, you’re going to have to invest more time to get your business off the ground, but at some point, the time you spend becomes just as valuable, if not more so than the actual money you’re “saving” by using free traffic methods. You’ll have to decide what the trade off is for you, and whether or not you can really afford to invest money into advertising.

Another point worth mentioning about free traffic is, you’ll 

likely have to spend a great deal more time before you will see results that make a difference. Though paid traffic won’t necessarily have instantaneous results, it generally produces quicker results than by using paid traffic alone.

Ideally, paid traffic is the best option to really get the 

business up and running. For people who have a limited budget, it is best to use a combination of free and paid methods to get the best results in the shortest amount of time.