Traffic jump start

[Panky]

What traffic and how you initially get it to your site, depends on a number of factors.

• Country specific?
  
  Niche specific?
  
  Host and bandwidth restrictions?
  
  Type of site you want the traffic to go to?
  
  Your advertising budget?
  
  Type of products or services offered?
  
  ...

Search engine traffic is gold.

There's the pay-per-click method such as AdWords, or Sex.com. Know your target marget and the keywords and keyphrases they are using to search for what you have to offer.

There's pay for inclusion options being offered by search engines and directories. You pay a certain fee for your site to be included in their listings, and / or you can pay a certain fee to have your site reviewed faster than the average waiting period.

Link trading with related sites.

Purchasing traffic. Do your homework.

TGP's and MGP's can produce a lot of traffic. Big debate about whether this is crap traffic or not, but it does, for example, help to boost stats for trades. Good galleries, partner accounts, and or paid listings will help to get the traffic. If you operate a TGP / MGP, you can control your traffic and where it goes. Purchase traffic. Encourage bookmarking. Establish trades. Maybe do pay-per-click or pay-for-inclusion to help jump start the traffic.

Paid listings on webmaster boards, MGP's / TGP's, industry newsletters, webmaster board newsletters, ...

Pop-up, pop-under, exit console programs and trades...

Write a press release announcing your new site.

Write articles and tutorials about something you know and then link it back to your site.

Basically, there is methods that are going to generate some quick traffic, and there's methods of traffic generation that take longer to first get the eyeballs there, but lead to a steady flow.

Is your site built to sell? Is it user friendly? Is it fully functioning?