Ways to Generate Targeted Traffic

1. Search Engines : Someone knows site by name, the search engines are the easiest gateway to be found on the WWW because nearly everyone today uses the search engines.

2. Identify Your Market: This is self explanatory, the moment you identify your market, you will be in a better position to know the kind of products and/or services that your target audience want. This may not directly boost your website's visibility online but indirectly it will help boost your conversions.

3. Article Writing: Article marketing is arguably the most effective techniques of driving targeted traffic towards your site because of the reason that it will help you build very valuable back links towards your website.

4. Link Exchanges: A few years ago link building was very valuable, but not the same anymore. However, link exchange is still thought to be an effective way of promoting a website online.This helps you build referral links - something still considered valuable as it is a way of endorsing your website.

5. Build a List: List building entails recycling your traffic, building relationships, as well as increasing your website's conversions for more sales.

You can use social media to get the desired traffic.

I agree with you, I thinks Social media is also a good way to gain traffic, social media is the long term source..

you have good thing, you can add blog posting also to get good traffic. blog posting one of best way in present time to get best and organic traffic.

Targeted traffic generation is not a simple task to perform you have to create reputed image on forums to get visitors on your site and you can pay Google for Adwords.