get the most bang for you buck

[miles]

Aside from straight SEO, what are you 3 largest forms of gaining traffic to your site? This does not have to be pay per click, but it could be.

I am trying to figure where the best places you have seen to get the most from you advertising dollar.

[edited by: miles at 7:04 pm (utc) on Jan. 29, 2003]

[DrCool]

For many of my sites:

AdWords
Links from other sites
Overture

[miles]

Anyone else?

[Hollywood]

Being honest and applying your website URL in ANY e-mail corr.

I sometimes send messages to any-one I meet or run into either on the web or in person, it works well.

[Jack_Frost]

Optimization, PPC, Links seems to be 1,2,and 3 for most of our sites. After this, we typically into traditional things like trade ads, word of mouth, direct mail, and PR.

We also look for niche sites where we can advertise cheaply although I can't say this is a big traffic generator.