Getting Traffic, My Way
January 27th, 2010When you’ve been caught by scam after scam, it becomes very difficult to stay positive. Oh yes, I dabbled in the pay per click, didn’t know what I was doing, lost my shirt. I can afford 5 cents per click but when other companies are willing to pay 5 dollars, I’m smart enough to take myself out of the game.
Some marketers suggest forums. Well, I’ve tried that too. Somehow my little messages and small link back to my site get lost in those thousands upon thousands of pages. It is way too labor intensive and not something I want to spend my day at.
If god would smile upon me and place me at the top of the search engines, I guess I would have nothing to complain about. Hopefully, I will get there. I’m not a millionaire now, but I know eventually, I will be. It’s just a matter of time.
OK, back to traffic. So since forums are a waste of time and pay per click is a waste of money when then. Well, blogging can work if you already have a ton of traffic to that blog. I hear about press releases, but I can’t be bothered to spend the money. I would rather write an article that doesn’t cost me any money.
Social bookmarking can be effective, but it’s other people who need to bookmark you, so if they don’t get to your site, how can they know you are there?? MySpace or Facebook, again you are only reaching a limited number of people. Sure after you get going it can be a way to boost your traffic, but first we need to get started.
From experience, the fastest, cheapest way of getting good traffic is through article marketing. That’s where you write an article like this and send to it out to various sites. If you write good articles, you can get hundreds and sometimes thousands of visitors per day, in less than one month. Of course it depends on the sites you submit to and how many articles you write.
First you need to write an article or two. Next you need to submit it to a directory. One of the most popular is Ezine Articles. They also tend to have the higher standards. Submit to them first. If they accept it, you know it’s good. Then you can re-submit that article to other directories.
You can get some free submitters that will submit your article to a number of directories. Usually, if it’s free it is some kind of software that runs on your computer. The up side is that it’s free and it can help to automate the submission process which makes less work for you.
The down side, usually only submits to about 100 sites, which are all article directories, that have no specific topic. These sites tend not to rank high since they cover such a broad array of categories. Plus, you will have the same article circulating on all these sites, Google is not a big fan of that.
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