While, without a doubt, there are programs and methods out there that work, and work well, there are also a variety of schemes and programs that not only do not work, but are frowned upon by reputable marketers and customers, alike.

Top on my list of schemes to avoid are the Million Hits Traffic Generation schemes.  Some people believe that the more traffic to their site the better their sales.

In searching for a means of driving massive traffic to their site they wind up joining some traffic generation scheme that promises to generate a million hits on your site.

Next they will waste away their valuable time clicking away on traffic exchanges.

Now, don’t get me wrong, not all traffic exchanges are schemes.  However, some are exactly that.

Not to mention everyone who’s using this traffic exchange is a business owner, so unless your business has more to offer than the other’s do you won’t get any further with this method than you would have with any other.

Another scheme to avoid is the "sale" of traffic. Companies will offer to "sell" you massive amounts of traffic, usually some phenomenal number like a million hits or 10 million hits and in truth what it turns out to be are popup and/or popunder advertising.

I don’t know about you, but I’m plain tired of popup ads and will avoid sites that use them.

Programs like the ones I just mentioned are not and will never be replacements or solid alternatives to the tried-and-true methods of generating traffic such as SEO, pay-per-click and others.

Understandably marketers will have times when they’re frustrated with a lack of results, however with a little time and effort, along with education, there are a variety of methods that can be used to generate traffic and, once in place, require minimal maintenance to continue to produce results.

Although there is more work involved in these methods, when done correctly they produce real, steady results and they won’t annoy your visitors!