Traffic - Not the frustrating kind! by Bob Saville

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Traffic - Not the frustrating kind!
by Bob Saville

We sit in our cars on freeways and side-streets - cursing traffic and how it makes the rest of our day difficult and generally off to an unsavory beginning or end. Traffic in the Internet world is viewed completely different - in fact, it is the most important part of a work at home Internet business.

Whether you have an e-commerce site where you are selling tangible products that you need to package and ship, or if you are selling e-books or other electronic information - you need one thing in order to continue making sales. That's traffic. Yes, you need to fill your website with as much traffic as possible.

Here is an example of what I mean: if you have a website that sells an information e-book, and you have noticed on your web stats that you are getting about 25 hits per day and making 5 sales, that's a 20% conversion rate. Not bad, but it's only five sales. If you can attract 2500 hits per day and your conversion rates decrease to 1%, you are still making 25 sales per day - that's 5 times more sales than you were making before.

It is simple volume that makes Internet businesses run. The more people you can attract to your website, the better off your work at home business is going to be. With greater traffic, you are going to do a number of things:

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Posted on: February 12,2007

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