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title: Traffic steering
description: Set traffic steering policies for load balancers.
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# Traffic steering

Global traffic steering policies decide how a load balancer routes traffic to attached and healthy pools.

  
* [ Standard ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/load-balancing/understand-basics/traffic-steering/steering-policies/standard-options/)
* [ Geo ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/load-balancing/understand-basics/traffic-steering/steering-policies/geo-steering/)
* [ Dynamic ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/load-balancing/understand-basics/traffic-steering/steering-policies/dynamic-steering/)
* [ Proximity ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/load-balancing/understand-basics/traffic-steering/steering-policies/proximity-steering/)
* [ Least Outstanding Requests ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/load-balancing/understand-basics/traffic-steering/steering-policies/least-outstanding-requests/)

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