Tools of the Trade for Traffic Generating Web Sites

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What is a traffic generating web site?

A good traffic generating web site in today's day and age on the world wide web is any home page that generates enough traffic in a day that its competitors see in a month's time in comparisons. Traffic generating web sites are generally high profile, big name and advertise like crazy. However, sometimes traffic generating web sites are also not marketed and not overplayed, for example, Google (www.google.com).

Google is the classic example of a web site gaining buzz every day with more and more users jumping on board to use it without so much as a beep from a marketing campaign; that's part of the allure of being this type of web site, eventually, you get to be so big you no longer have to spend money on an advertising and marketing campaign.

Why would a web site aspire to be traffic generating in nature?

Most web sites don't plan to be big, in fact, the majority of web sites fall flat on their face never to see the light of another page hit again. Most pages, as a fact, don't last longer than six months. So, why would anyone even attempt to be a shining star on the blight that is the internet when they're doomed to sit as a bottom feeder for search engines?

Most sites that become popular on the internet don't start out with wanting to be, because being a big name on the internet - having thousands, sometimes, millions of hits a day - isn't necessarily a good thing for some webmasters who can't stand the pressure of constant demand not to mention the costs of bandwidth to fund those constant requests.

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