Driving Traffic To Site

[blasto333]

Am I allowed to drive traffic to my site under the Adsense TOS? I remember reading about something where you couldn't join banner exchanges. I probably wouldn't do that, but I would pay to get traffic to my site.

What are things you can and cannot do in terms of bringing traffic to your site?

[John_Caius]

AFAIK there are very few restrictions so long as your site content itself qualifies for Adsense and you don't encourage your users to click ads - here's a good place to start with increasing free traffic from Google:

[webmasterworld.com...]

[ByronM]

Just be sensible and drive traffic in such a fashion that it gets people who WANT to see your website and come back.

Its pointless to drive traffic just for traffic.

Concentreate on MARKETING and PROMOTING your website. Get listed on the search engines, affiliate with people who are in the same field, work to get name recognition and advertise.

Spend some cash at the PPC - overture, adwords, kanoodle and others.

[blasto333]

Thanks for your help. I will look into advertising. Do you know of any places were you can discuss on how to get more traffic and returning visitors to your site? (not adwords or overture, but more general discussion)

[Jenstar]

If you are wondering about non-WebmasterWorld forums, it is against the TOS to post the URLs. But the Google News forum here is a great place to start, as is the Search Engine Promotion [webmasterworld.com] forum.

[Chicken Juggler]

Is there any drawback to using adwords to get traffic.

[wonderboy]

It costs more than you get back initially in most cases.

ie. if your don't have full confidence in your product you will lose money by using AdWords.

[Chicken Juggler]

So far at min cpc on Overture I am doubling my money. Could that help me predict or are they just so different?

[loanuniverse]

I think that driving traffic in the form of popups is prohibited as you can not have the code in a popup page.

[blasto333]

Your saying if my site is advertised with a popup that is not allowed?

Thanks

[ByronM]

Your saying if my site is advertised with a popup that is not allowed?

There isn't anything wrong with that, but it isn't a good practice to be in if you value your traffic.

You just can't host popups if your in adsense.

[loanuniverse]

I am saying if the page where you have the code is in the popup, it is not allowed.

Example:

<pop up> - > <page with adsense> is ok

<pop up = page with adsense> is not ok

Regarding your site having popups, that falls under excessive advertising only if they are overdone. Plenty of sites have popups. In fact one of my sites had until recently a fastclick <once every 12 hour> popunder and I have seen several sites with one popup running adsense. Furthermore, if you do a forum search you will see that someone heard from Google, which said that one popup was ok.