One of Alex Jeffreys challenges to his new students is to document how we drive traffic to our new blogs. I had intended doing just that in a post on this blog, but the post was getting longer and longer as I listed the various methods I use. So I decided to turn it into a report instead.

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In all, the report ended up being 14 pages long, so it would have made for a huge and unwieldy post. The Blog Linking Tactics Report, as I’ve called it, lists 27 solid, proven techniques for driving traffic to your blog. If you’re just looking to promote a standard (non-blog) website, then the majority of techniques will still be relevant to you. The report does list some blog-specific methods (by using certain Wordpress plugins) to drive traffic which won’t apply to traditional websites.

You can get the report by entering your name and email address in the box at the right of this page.

I’d love to get some feedback, so leave a comment after you’ve looked over the report. it’s a bit raw at the moment but I wanted to get it out there rather than sit on it while it gets prettied up. Members of my list will continue to get free updates to the report as they’re released.

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* Why inbound links are essential to your website’s success
* The right (and wrong) way to generate links
* How to compel other websites to link to yours (without having to ask)
* The 7 stages of a definitive link building campaign
* How to build links that will drive traffic, sales and revenue for years to come

The book normally costs $49 but is $29 with the discount. ‘Fraid I don’t know how long the offer will last. Rather than me reposting the book’s blurb here, you can read the sales page here. They even offer a 30-day refund period on the book.

You may have read my two previous posts about methods of getting traffic to your sites using free and paid methods. If you haven’t, take a look at them now:

Getting Traffic To Your Websites – Free Options
Getting Traffic To Your Websites – Paid Options

Since I wrote those posts, I’ve been investigating a few other paid methods for getting traffic. Let’s face it, if you want top results in getting traffic, you are going to have to pay for them. And one of those methods, even more popular (because it gets results) than in recent years, is article marketing.

So I’ve looked at three such paid services. All have been around for a while, and all have excellent reputations for achieving results.

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In the last post, I looked at options for getting traffic to your sites that don’t cost any money, but cost some time and effort.  This time, I’ll look at some methods that do cost money but don’t cost much time or effort.

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Every website stands or falls on the traffic it receives, regardless of the tool you use to build the site.

A first step is to submit your site’s sitemap to the search engines (SiteBuilder Elite does this for you) but it is only a first step. You can also submit sitemaps through Google’s Webmaster Tools.

The search engines love active sites (especially Google); that doesn’t just mean the number of new pages added to a site on a regular basis, but the number of inbound links to the site. If a site keeps getting new inbound links (links from other sites pointing to it), then it must be popular, and that’s reflected in the page rankings in the search engines. Higher page ranks mean higher positions in the search engines and more traffic coming to your sites through natural searches.

However, getting traffic isn’t enough. You need the right kind of traffic and you need to give that traffic some useful information. Basically, you should think of yourself and your sites as being in a service industry that provides information to people. The better the information, the more likely people will revisit and the greater the chance that they’ll buy products or click ads listed on your site.

So if submitting a sitemap is just a first step, what other methods are available for getting traffic?

In this post, I’ll look at the free options (the next post will look at paid options):

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