Which one to choose Paid Traffic or Free Traffic?

[bsteve]

Guys, which one to choose paid traffic or free traffic. Paid traffic are fast and reliable but free traffic are slow and also unreliable. As my site is all about making sales so I am a bit confused by now but it doesn't mean that I haven't make any sales from free traffic, I have but they are just so unpredictable. Should I put more effort in paid ad campaigns? What's your say?

[Paul]

Why don't you try both. Paid traffic may be reliable and fast but by free traffic you will earn more. Try SEO, it will need a small investment at the first but it will generate targeted traffic for you for a long time.

[marvinsam]

In Digital marketing, it is preferred to get both free and paid traffic. If you get free traffic on one side it will cost you less for getting paid traffic.

[amanrai]

Both are helpful for your website and business, it depends upon you that how much you are converting. It depends upon the sale of your business that which one is beneficial for you.

[adam_jones]

When it comes to free traffic, some of the most popular methods include search engine optimization (SEO) and social media. For example, if you choose to use SEO, then you will optimize your website, blog or content, for the search engines, with the hope that your content will end up in a good place in the search engines’ search results, which will usually result in search engine traffic being sent to your site.
As for paid traffic, there are a few methods that you can turn to, such as Pay-per-click (PPC), which involves you paying an ad serving platform to serve your ad and you pay per click, hence the name for this form of advertising. A good example of using PPC is when you join Adwords, and then you pay Google to serve your ads, which will generate traffic to your site via those ads.

[adam_jones]

The major difference between paid and free traffic is that with paid traffic, you are leveraging off someone else. Not only that, most of the time paid traffic is traffic that works almost instantly, meaning there is no waiting period for traffic to kick in.
Free traffic is any kind of traffic you send to your website by any means whether its through the search engines or using guerilla tactics.

[Luckperson]

Free traffic is the best compare to paid traffic.It's a organic traffic.