As a website owner, you have your own preference for traffic generation, therefore, you may want to differ with my list. However, based on my experience, knowledge and skills, here are the best and the worst traffic generation method
Best Traffic Generation Methods
SEO: When you optimize your site for search engines, you will get organic traffic. Organic traffic has a high conversion rate (you earn more)
Social Media Promotion: Social Media traffic is called direct traffic. If you know the tricks of the trade, you can make your post viral on social sites and get tons of traffic
Search Engine Marketing: You can market your site through Google, Bing, yahoo search engines and get listed on paid search results.
Advertising: You can also advertise your site on various ad networks like Adwords, etc.
Worst Traffic Generation Methods
Traffic Exchange: Traffic Exchange means you watch someone's website, earn credits and than use those credits to drive similar traffic. This can also be done by buying traffic exchange credits.
PTC: You can advertise on PTC sites, even though get traffic, this is incentive traffic, therefore not good.
Popunder ads: You can also join pop up ad networks as advertiser and advertise your site. You can get good traffic, but this kind of pop under ads are not preferred by the ad networks like adsense.
Best Traffic Generation Methods
SEO: When you optimize your site for search engines, you will get organic traffic. Organic traffic has a high conversion rate (you earn more)
Social Media Promotion: Social Media traffic is called direct traffic. If you know the tricks of the trade, you can make your post viral on social sites and get tons of traffic
Search Engine Marketing: You can market your site through Google, Bing, yahoo search engines and get listed on paid search results.
Advertising: You can also advertise your site on various ad networks like Adwords, etc.
Worst Traffic Generation Methods
Traffic Exchange: Traffic Exchange means you watch someone's website, earn credits and than use those credits to drive similar traffic. This can also be done by buying traffic exchange credits.
PTC: You can advertise on PTC sites, even though get traffic, this is incentive traffic, therefore not good.
Popunder ads: You can also join pop up ad networks as advertiser and advertise your site. You can get good traffic, but this kind of pop under ads are not preferred by the ad networks like adsense.