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Not All Traffic Is Created Equal

For a long time there's been a certain amount of obsession among webmasters about building traffic—any traffic—for websites. But really, especially if you're location-based, the focus should be on building the right traffic.Of course, search takes center stage in that struggle, but more recently social media sites like Digg.com and BoingBoing have captured the imaginations of traffic-obsessed marketers. Here's what many of them discover, though: traffic bursts from those sites do little for sales.