Web traffic is the pulse of every website on the Internet. It is also the main source of revenue for webmasters and web publishers alike. Everybody wants it, and people are willing to go to great lengths to get it.

I, like many other content writers, have struggled to understand, predict, and funnel web traffic to my articles in order to boost my rankings in the search engines, and to hopefully translate that into increased earnings.

There are two kinds of web traffic as I see them: natural and unnatural. Natural web traffic is the kind that happens without any extra promotion from the publisher whatsoever. Unnatural web traffic is the kind that requires an active effort to reel in from cyberspace. Both kinds of web traffic have their advantages and disadvantages, but as time passes, I'm beginning to favor one type of web traffic over the other, and I'll explain why a little later.

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Natural web traffic is the kind that is completely hands off. All that it requires is for authors to produce content, and that's it. No article promotion, no submission to search engines, nothing. It is possibly the most common type of web traffic, because every webpage is subject to it by default. Search engines also sent "bots" to crawl through new webpages, although the process can take some time without submission.

The obvious advantage of natural web traffic is an emphasis only on content creation. All that is needed is from you is to produce. This frees up publishers from having to actively promote their work. If the content is published on a site that ranks high on the search engines, natural web traffic is more rapid. Also, if viewers like the content enough, they will submit it to social bookmarking sites for you!

Natural web traffic isn't without its drawbacks. Unless you have adequate SEO knowledge or are producing for a high ranking site, you will cripple your chances of attracting web traffic. Also, without promotion, you will be at a disadvantage that other writers will be more than happy to take advantage of.

Unnatural web traffic is the kind obtained through active promotion and advertisement. This includes submitting to search engines, social bookmarking websites, creating backlinks, buying web traffic, and so on. It is the equivalent of traditional marketing techniques.

Needless to say, unnatural web traffic presents a great boost to the page ranking of a piece of work on Internet search engines. In fact, one very well placed backlink can provide surges of web traffic overnight. Instead of for waiting around for a webpage to be indexed in search engines, unnatural web traffic requires a far more involved approach.

Because unnatural web traffic requires such a proactive stance, it also commands a great deal of grunt work. Even if the choice of web traffic attraction is simply a search engine submission, doing so can prove to be a time-consuming and monotonaus task when submitting multiple articles.. There is also the risk that all the extra work will pull in web traffic that doesn't monetize well.

Now, after having examined both types of web traffic, it's time to reveal which one I prefer. While I am not a web traffic guru or SEO wizard, I have been studying this subject on and off for some time. It took a while, but I finally believe I have grasped the concept of getting web traffic.

I believe natural web traffic is the best kind, and I'll tell you why.

I also write for eHow, and I've amassed about 80 articles so far. Of that number, I can say that I actively promoted about 70 of those articles to generate more web traffic. I used nearly every method I learned, and literally sat for days on end advertising my work.

I did notice an increase in overall web traffic from my efforts, but that did not translate well into earnings. One of my most popular articles about how to flirt with older women has nearly 300 views. Yet it only started generating revenue last week, and I originally wrote the article almost two months ago!

After nearly breaking my back promoting my work, I decided to try simply learning SEO, publishing content accordingly, and letting my work attract web traffic on its own. Now, this may not hold true for everyone, but the conversion rate was been alot better. Yes it will take longer to generate massive web traffic, but I get to focus more on writing, which is my strongest suite.

I am not trying to convert people into only relying on "natural" web traffic, I', just expressing what has worked for me. In order for me to come to this conclusion, I had to experiment with both styles of web traffic before I could come to this conclusion.

I must confess I do not exclusively rely on SEO and writing on high ranking websites for traffic. For every article that I publish, I also submit them to Google, Yahoo and Bing search engines. Other than that, I don't spend too much time promoting my work, because it moves the focus from writing onto advertising.

If you have a blog, or a website that you want to attract traffic to, then I highly sugguest you try using "unnatural web traffic", i.e. that kind that requires promotion. I plan on starting a blog sometime soon, and I will have to break down and try targetting traffic to make it successful.

Whichever method of driving web traffic works for you is the one you should use.