The phrase "attracting traffic" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to marketing, website optimization, or any situation where the goal is to draw visitors or attention to a particular place or platform.
Example: "The new advertising campaign is focused on attracting traffic to our online store."
Alternatives: "drawing visitors" or "generating traffic".
New models like Weibo are good at attracting traffic but not so effective in directing users to e-commerce.
Among individual investors, there is less desire to put money into companies that are based on attracting traffic and recouping the investment through ad revenue.
A common incentive is to reduce landing fees or even eliminate them altogether, but some airports go to even greater lengths, financing the construction of new infrastructure facilities in the hope of attracting traffic.
The folks at awesomestuff.com and their V. C. backers are attracting traffic to their Web site, with its many banner ads for awesome stuff, using material created by other people.
Partnerships with Hollywood have proved to be an effective, though scattershot, way of attracting traffic: if you license four hundred movies and TV series at once, and dump them behind a very modest paywall, some are bound to find an audience.
But Microsoft is a close rival in attracting traffic to its family of Web sites.
All the Internet companies, meanwhile, are promoting toolbars and other software that help attract traffic.
Smaller side rooms are quieter, but the best contains a billing machine that attracts traffic from wait staff.
The strategy is to attract traffic from smaller American cities to its Asian and European flights, through Vancouver and Toronto.
And certainly it's going to attract traffic to that area that other people would prefer would not be there".
Time's "poll" was conducted by PlayBuzz, a viral-content provider that embeds quizzes, polls, lists, and other "playful content" items onto Web sites to attract traffic.
