**Create Some Fantastic Content
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The first thing you MUST do is create and publish some excellent content. Without this there is absolutely no point in driving traffic to your website.
**Open a Google Reader Account
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Google Reader allows you to get all of the latest posts from all the best websites and blogs in your niche. If you actively monitor what these sites are publishing you can jump in with comments quickly.
Have a look at this article to learn about setting up a free Google Reader account - http://www.subhub.com/articles/google-reader-how-to-use**Create some Squidoo and Hubpages
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Squidoo (www.squidoo.com) and HubPages (www.hubpages.com) are sites where you can create pages about your area of expertise. Then link from these pages back to your website.
**Links from other Sites
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If possible, try to get as many links to our blogs, sites or hubs as possible. Remember that every link that link back to our sites will be the road for visitors to visit your sites.
So, try to get links for your sites by exchanging links. The more links you exchange with other sites, the higher the possibility to get more traffic.
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You can get more traffic by using social bookmarking sites too. Social bookmarking sites are sites that we use to keep our bookmarks online and share it with all the people in our social bookmarking network.
We can make new friends and find our friends using social bookmarking sites and then we share our bookmarks amongst each other.
Top 10 social bookmarking sitesSocial bookmarking sites are a good place to share your bookmarks and of course, you can use it to share your sites or hubs too.
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You could you social network sites to get traffic too. I am sure that you are a member of social network sites.Examples of social network sites are:
- Friendster
- MySpace
- Orkut
- BlogCatalog
- MyBlogLog
These are the place to help you drive traffic to your site. You could place the links to your site at these social network sites and try to inform your friends to visit your site. This will be a good way to promote your site.
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You might hear a lot about articles submission. Articles submission means that you submit your articles to sites that receive articles and help you publish your articles on their sites.
The best part about article submission is that you can publish your articles on much more popular sites to help you spread your knowledge. You could place some links on the articles that will directly link to your site. This way the traffic at those article submission sites will come to your site and of course, this way will help you get more audience and make more money too.
Some articles submission sites
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Generally comments on blogs generate more traffic than forum posts because they remain in place and are relevant for much longer. A post on a very active forum may only stay on page one for a couple of hours.However using forums you can generate traffic very quickly without much effort.Example: Warriorforum
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Using these simple activities you could generate over 1,000 visitors to your website in its first month.
>Squidoo and HubPages ~ 200 – 600 visitors>One blog comment a day ~ 600 – 1,000 visitors
>One forum post a day ~ 300 – 600 visitors
>Social Bookmarking~500 - 1,000 visitors
>Article Submission~200 - 400visitors
>Social networking~100 - 300 visitors
>Google Search~ 50 - 100 visitors (For amature publisher having PR-0)
Remember to track your daily progress using a web statistics service like the excellent (and free) Google Analytics (www.google.com/analytics).
Cheers!
