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I bet traffic generation is the most interesting subject you want to listen. Indeed, it's the most sensitive topic, too.

Traffic is always in dynamic status. It's the flow of human beings. It's not just a mouse click. Different business models need different traffic generation strategies. There is no sure-fire strategy for all businesses.

To find people to visit your website, it can be a free or paid action. Good traffic generation method is a cost-effective way to bring visitors to your website. Instead of using Pay-Per-Click or search engine optimization strategies, the return (net result) is more important than the nature of strategies.

Definitely I use many strategies. I never rely on ONE strategies because I have several business models in my hand.

I try not to use the term "generation" for the whole picture of traffic. "Generation" is a good term to describe the process of "external" traffic management process, but it is not the whole picture of the internet business.

The mechanism of traffic management is:
New Visitor > Website > Return to the Website

Traffic generation is an accumulation process. We have external and internal traffic strategies to manage the traffic. We cannot rely on either one to sustain our business.

Philosophy of Traffic:
It's my experience after managing over billions of unique visitors across my website in these 7 years. I cannot say my approach is an answer. In fact, the philosophy is based on experience.

1. Direct Access
2. Referral Traffic

Referral Traffic I want to talk about "Referral Traffic" first. It's because most webmasters believe "referral traffic" is almost equal to "everything".

Referral traffic means the other websites (or another online media) refer visitors to the one of yours. Your referral can be search engine, blog, directories, forum..etc. You can generate referral traffic by free or paid methods.

1. Search Engine: you can generate free traffic by using SEO methods or paid traffic by joining the advertising programs like Google Adwords or Yahoo Overture.

2. Blog & Forum: These websites are more community style. It's like friend visiting the other friends' website. E.g. Mybloglog. People see your pic and are interested to visit your website. People visit your site because of "YOU" instead of your website.

3. Others: It's as simple as a webmaster puts your website URL on his site with or without introduction.

The common characteristic of referral traffic is: the visitors go to your website from another by clicking the "hyperlink".

We also classify referral traffic generation as the external traffic management. It can bring new and old visitors to a website. "New" blood is focused.

Direct Access
It's what we talk about "internal traffic management". For the process of traffic management, you know it is a process of accumulation.

From the 100 to 10000 unique visitors, how many of them repeat to come to your website? Direct access is the most stable and reliable traffic source. For a new website, it is quite impossible to have a good direct traffic. You need to bring people by using referral traffic strategies, then provide the content, tools to keep people returning to your website.

To keep people come back, we have many strategies like:

1. Direct bookmark
2. Easy to remember domain name (it's your brand, the most valuable asset of a website)
3. More valuable contents and web tools (it's why people come to your website), and think about their updated frequency. 4. Email ....etc.

It's the general picture you should know as a webmaster.

You can learn more ideas about traffic generation strategies by:
1. To download the detailed guideline and action plan.
2. Move to another topic: Revenue Optimization

www.Ambatch.com is a self-finance web publishing studio in Hong Kong.

Kelvin Hui is a web publisher and venture capitalist. He is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ambatch Systems Limited which is the leading web publishing studio in Asia.

With 7 years of website building experience & knowledge, he develops websites in different countries which rank the top local 100 according to the traffic volume. In October 2006, one of his experiments called ambatch.com, a community website, was ranked 217 in Alexa Global Ranking.

In the meantime, one of his projects, http://www.FriendEarth.com gets the attention of internet giants. Yahoo Inc. invited Kelvin to sign a multi-year partnership agreement to all his web publishing projects in Asia-Pacific. Kelvin Hui is recognized as a genius in website traffic generation and management in the world, and the most influential industry leader in Japan.

Jane owns a Rainbow vacuum cleaner and loves it. Ever since the first night she let Randy, her demonstrator come over and show her and Bill how good the Rainbow vacuum cleaner really is she loved it.

She was amazed at how dirty the water had turned inside the Rainbow vacuum water basin. Randy, her Rainbow vacuum salesman, had just vacuumed a small three foot square area of her light beige carpet after her husband had gone over that spot 50 times, back and forth, with her old vacuum cleaner.

Actually, her old vacuum was brand new, it was only 3 months old. The problem was, according to Randy the Rainbow vacuum guy, that all the little holes in the bag of her old vacuum had stopped up causing it to lose air flow. Air flow?

Jane thought suction was what picked up stuff off the floor. Randy had heard this response dozens if not hundreds of times before so he knew that Jane was playing along according to the script that is played thousands of times a day all across the county.

Only Jane had not rehearsed the play and Randy had. Jane and Bill ended up owning a Rainbow vacuum cleaner that night and have loved the way it has performed ever since. That is until one day when they called Randy to order some more of the Mulberry oil based fragrances.

It made the whole house smell wonderful every time they used their Rainbow vacuum. The problem was that when they called Randy he was not there. Not only was Randy not there but the office number had been disconnected with no forwarding information.

Scenarios like this are common and will continue to be so. The reason it happens is that vacuum cleaner distributors are just like any other direct sales organization.

Sometimes sales are good, sometimes they are so bad that the distributor cannot stay in business so it closes the doors, leaving customers high and dry and no local office to get parts and supplies.

Steve McArthur saw a need for Rainbow vacuum parts and has been filling the need for since 1998 on the web.

Rainbow Vacuum

http://www.vacuumpartsmall.com/

The increase in health awareness and organic living has helped spark the resurgence of tea drinking across the globe. In the United States alone, tea sales almost tripled from less than two billion dollars in 1990 to over six billion dollars in 2005, according to the Tea Association of the United States.

At present, you will surely find a variety of tealeaves, such as oolong, rose, vanilla, jasmine, mint, and even fruit teas, including lychee, lemon and mango, in local supermarkets and coffee shops. Even tea bags have evolved from the common rectangular shape to the new circular or pyramid-shaped tea bag that is infused with long tealeaves instead of dust, which are indistinguishable tealeaf particles.

Along with the rise in the popularity of tea drinking over the years is the emergence of tea bag folding. Tiny van der Plaas, a woman from Holland, was the one who created this tea bag envelope inspired paper craft. She came up with the idea of tea bag folding, which is commonly known as Miniature Kaleidoscopic Origami, when she started to fold up a fruit tea bag envelope while thinking of a novel way of creating a birthday card for her sister.

Tea bag folding basics

Tea bag folding can be compared to origami, a popular Japanese paper craft, in the sense that both hobbies make use of paper to create various designs. However, tea bag folding creations are usually just used to decorate cards and are made using small matching paper squares. In contrast, the Japanese origami cannot only be used as decorations for cards and gifts, but also to produce paper replicas of different animals, flowers, and almost anything under the sun.

In the past, only tea bag envelopes were used for this paper craft technique. As more and more people all over the world learn of this paper folding art, however, paper manufacturers have started to produce specialty papers exclusively for miniature kaleidoscopic origami. Tea bag folding aficionados all across the globe have also modernized this paper craft art by coming up with more magnificent and intricate geometric designs and innovative and unique materials.

Kaleidoscope papers come in various colors and designs, such as flowers, stars, musical instrument, snowflakes, dragons, spirals, and even soccer balls. Most tea bag papers available in the market are printed in 90-100 grams per square meter paper.

Uses of miniature kaleidoscopic origami

Tea bag folding was traditionally used to decorate birthday cards. Now, you can use this colorful and wonderful paper craft as decorations of greeting cards for all occasions. Some people utilize tea bag folding to decorate photo frames, wall frames, wall clocks, and even scrapbooks. With just a bit of imagination and creativity, you can make use of tea bag folding to decorate almost anything and everything.

Moreover, tea bag folding can be considered as a relaxing hobby. If you feel that you are on the edge, stressed out because of too much work, try creating tea bag folding designs, and you will definitely loosen up a bit.

Tea bag folding materials

The most important material of this craft is tea bag envelope - if you want to be traditional - or colorful paper. For a more intricate effect, you might want to choose paper with geometric designs and elaborate patterns.

Other essential materials of tea bag folding are cutting mat, scissors, ruler (preferable metal edged), knife or cutter, and paper adhesive.

Popular tea bag folding designs

For people who are interested in starting a miniature kaleidoscopic origami, you can find a lot of materials and reference over the Internet. There are also some scrapbooking stores that carry tea bag folding materials and books that could help you learn this paper art. If you are on a tight budget, you can even just print tea bag folding designs that are available on the Net.

If you are a neophyte tea bag folding practitioner, you might want to start creating tea bag rosettes. This is a colorful flower-shaped design that can be used to decorate gifts, cards, and even bookmarks. Another beautiful tea bag folding design that has caught the hearts of many is the starburst design. You can use glitters so that your paper star design will look more brilliant and vibrant.

Tea bag folding is an easy and inexpensive hobby you can take on. Once you have started tea bag folding, you will surely get instantly hooked.

Lee Dobbins writes for http://tea.topicgiant.com where you can learn more about different kinds of tea and tea accessories like the teabag.

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Globat company offers a very successful feature/price ratio. However, it also has some disadvantages. For example, in comparison to other web hosting companies, it is actually more suitable for webmasters or experienced users, who need a lot of features and have professional skills needed for the management of their websites. If the user is a beginner, Globat may seem a rather complicated thing to handle. Though, everything depends on the situation of course. Anyway, the choice of the web hosting companies is really vast - and which one you will choose - depends on your own needs and expectations.

Sasha Blo, copywriter of Web Hosting Providers