TYPES OF TRAFFIC TO TARGET

TYPES OF TRAFFIC TO TARGET

The internet has multiple traffic sources you can use to promote your affiliate offers.
TYPES OF TRAFFIC TO TARGET
Direct traffic
Organic traffic
Referral traffic
Social traffic
Email traffic
Display traffic and
Paid traffic

DIRECT TRAFFIC

Direct website traffic refers to the number of visitors that go directly to a website by typing the URL into their browser or by clicking on a bookmark. These visitors have not been directed to the site through a referral from another website, search engine, or advertising campaign.

EXAMPLES

EG 1: Mail box posts
EG2: Marketing Flyers
EG3: Website

ORGANIC TRAFFIC

Organic traffic refers to the visitors that come to a website through unpaid, natural search results on search engines. These visitors have found the website through a search query they entered into a search engine, such as Google, Bing or Yahoo, and clicked on a link to the site that appeared in the search results. 

EXAMPLES

EG 1:  Google
EG2: Facebook, Twitter, Tik Tok

REFERRAL TRAFFIC

Referral traffic refers to the visitors that come to a website from other websites. These visitors have been directed to the site through a link on another site, such as a blog post, an article, a forum, or a social media post.

EXAMPLES

EG 1: SMS from Phones
EG2: Blogs

SOCIAL TRAFFIC

Social media traffic refers to the visitors that come to a website from social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok and so on. These visitors have been directed to the site through a link on a social media post, page, or profile

EXAMPLES

EG 1: Facebook Marketing
EG2: Instagram Marketing

EMAIL TRAFFIC

This refers to traffic from email lists. This can either be traffic from your own list, or traffic from someone else’s list. Using someone else’s list to market your own offers is known as Solo Ads.

EXAMPLES

EG 1: Solo Ads Marketing
EG2: Email Marketing

DISPLAY TRAFFIC

Display traffic is the traffic you received from Display Advertising. Display advertising allows you to target specific websites to display your text or banner ad on the site.

EXAMPLES

EG 1: Text Ad Marketing
EG2: Banner Ad Marketing

PAID TRAFFIC

Paid traffic is when you pay for every click that occurs on your advert, whether an action was performed afterwards or not. Primary Paid traffic platforms include Google, Facebook and Instagram.

EXAMPLES

EG 1: Google Ads Marketing
EG2: Social Media Paid Ads
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