Are you using free or paid methods to drive traffic to your websites?
Is it very time-consuming and soul-draining?
Your opinion?
To each their own.. and if some of you guys want to chase after free traffic, be my guest.
But if I had to choose between free traffic and paid traffic, I'd choose Paid traffic - All day every day.
There's no comparison.
Time is your most valuable asset.
With most free traffic methods you are exchanging serious time in exchange for a small trickle of traffic.
And it's not worth it.
And even if you somehow manage to tap into social media to get alot a whole bunch of traffic one day.. so what?
It's not really dependable. It's not really scalable. So it's unlikely that it's going to last long.
With paid traffic I have something dependable, steady, scalable, etc.
I think most people get suckered into chasing after free traffic because deep down inside they have alot of fears and doubts. They are scared to death of paid traffic because of the 'risk'.. What if they spend $5 on an ad and lose it? surely it will be the end of them.
So many people chase after free traffic because it's Safe. it's not as intimidating.. and if it doesn't work out.. No harm done right? they didn't lose any money, right?
Wrong.
If you spend 6 months chasing SEO / social media or some other magical Free traffic unicorn and it doesn't work out.. You just wasted 6 months of your life.. That's time that's gone forever.
And time is priceless. Time is worth more than gold. On his deathbed, the richest man on the world would give all of his wealth to get more of it.. yet you just threw away 6 months of your life chasing a wild goose.
Not only that.. Free traffic is EXPENSIVE.. think about it.
Had you worked a minimum wage job during those 6 months instead and saved up money.. how much money would you be sitting on?
Depends on where you live.. but could be anywhere from $10k - $18k
So what if you just saved up that money and than did paid traffic? Imagine what you could do with an $18k budget.. you'd probably be in a WAY different position than you are now.. and wouldn't have all the stress / headache..
So is free traffic really worth it? you tell me..