There are three golden rules to Internet success... traffic, traffic and traffic!

Because traffic-generation has been hailed as a black art, so-called Internet 'gurus' are making fortunes selling cheap web-based 'magic formula' pages for anything up to $150 a view. Meanwhile, back on planet earth, the rest of us struggle to get surfers to visit our domains.

But it doesn't have to be like that. If traffic generation is approached in a methodical, business-like manner, you need never be short of visitors again.

One of the problems that face us as Internet Marketers is that the Web is an ever-changing environment. The promotional techniques that worked a few years (or even months) ago cannot always be relied on to work today. So we, too, have to be flexible.

Take, for example FFA pages which, a short while ago, were the 'essential' new tool to promote your site. Today, they have ceased to serve their original purpose of getting visitors to view your promotional ads. On the other hand, savvy netrepreneurs use them in a different way.

I no longer submit my ads to FFA pages and classified ad sites - I choose to OWN my FFA sites. Then, every time someone submits an ad to my site, I send them a confirmation which includes my own promotional message. At the same time I get my links on thousands of other pages, which brings me improved popularity with the search engines.

And that leads us directly to the flavor of the day with search engines - LINK POPULARITY. The more sites that are linked to yours, the higher up the search engine rankings you will climb. Forget all the 'old' rubbish about meta tags and optimization, today your time is better spent getting links elsewhere. Build a good site with good content, then automate your site optimization with a resource like Search Engine Blaster which you can find at Search Engine Blaster. This will leave you more time to get external links to your site.

Here's what Dennis Gaskill, the creator and owner of Boogie Jack's, has to say about external links...
"My site is in the top 1% of the most linked-to-sites on the Internet according to websmostlinked.com. It serves about 750,000 page views per month. Less than 35% of my traffic comes from search engines. That means over 65% of my traffic comes from links or a bookmark, and I do have good search engine rankings for several keywords, so it's not balanced that way because of bad rankings."

That's how valuable links can be!

Here are Two Top Tips for getting lots of external sites linked to yours:-

1. There is a tool called Messageboard Blaster that will post your promotional ads to multiple messageboards. You can get details here: Message Board Blaster

If you keep your Message board postings up-to-date, you'll suddenly find that your search engine rakings have improved!

Why?

Because the search engine spiders are not selective. To them, a message board is a Web site (which indeed it is) so any external links they find there are reported back and improve your own site ranking. The fact that you can blast over 500 sites with your site URL in just a few minutes, makes MessageBoard Blaster an almost indispensable tool. What other way do you know of getting 500 external sites to link to yours for just a few minutes work?

2. Writing articles (like this one) is also a powerful way of improving your rankings with the search engines. There are thousands of ezines and newsletters across the Internet. They all publish articles, and editors are constantly seeking good content to provide fresh information for their subscribers.

At the end of every article is a byline (a resource box) where you, as the author, briefly introduce yourself and include a link to your own site. Not only does this provide more visitors to your site it, if you are prepared to commit to writing one article a week, or a month and have your articles syndicated, you will improve your search engine rankings too; because your article (with your URL) will appear automatically on other people's web sites. For syndication details, take a look at: http://www.certificate.net/

Many people are afraid to write articles because they think you need a special talent. Not true! You don't have to be a best selling author to write a few words about your hobby, business or passion.

If you are reasonably literate, you can learn the 'art' of short article writing by reading examples of other people's works. Get a feel for short, punchy writing. With practice you will be able to write a solid and readable article, so start writing now!

There are many ezine article repositories. Here are just three (in addition to certificate.net)...
http://ezinearticles.com/
http://www.ideamarketers.com/
http://www.web-source.net/

And don't forget that one of the benefits of writing ezine articles is that it gets your name known. You start to become a 'recognized authority'; an expert, if you like. So bear in mind that most ezine repositories ask you to provide keywords for your article. In addition to the usual keywords that cover the subject matter, don't forget to add your own name! Let the search engines pick up on that, too!

Blast those Message Boards, and sharpen your pencil. It's time to get your site recognized!

Graham Hamer produces the TopProfits weekly ezine of Internet Marketing.
His ebook on Website Traffic Generating can be downloaded from:

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