Getting Web Traffic Today

1. Articles
What ezines or newsletters do you read in your topic or market? Perfect, now start submitting your own great articles to them and include a bio line with a short blurb and a link back to your site. This is an awesome method to get lots of high quality traffic.

2. Online Forums
Forums can be a good source of traffic, start out by just reading posts in the forum to get a feeling of how it is run. Do they allow people to advertise their own sites? If so great, if not most forums will at least allow you to place a signature at the bottom of your post with a link back to your site.

3. Blogs
Some blogs have an incredible amount of users, even better they encourage you to post comments and allow you to enter in a URL back to your site. When using this method you will generally want to be one of the first commenter's to a post.

4. Social Bookmarking Sites
The large social bookmarking sites like Digg and Stumbleupon receive tons of traffic. If you are working in a technology related topic they can offer a great stream of traffic simply by making good relevant comments and leaving your sites URL in your profile.

5. Content Sites
The Internet is built almost entirely on content. Create some sites for your market with high quality content consisting of reviews, articles and resource directories. To put these sites on almost total auto pilot you should set them up to allow users to contribute to them as well.

Above all don't start spamming blogs, forums or polluting the net with garbage to trick people into visiting your sites... these scorched earth methods are never strategies that work for the long haul.


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