A few days ago I asked my email list what topics they’d like me to write about. One of the top requests was on how to drive traffic to their websites. So with that in mind…

Getting Website Traffic

There are both free and paid ways of driving traffic to your sites. Of the paid ways, expenditure runs from a very modest couple of bucks to $100+ per month for subscription based services.

While free methods are fine, their big drawback is the amount of time it takes. The more sites you have, the more time you have to spend building backlinks. For the normal Joe with just a couple of hours free in the evenings to dedicate to websites, that time can be quickly eaten up by all the manual backlinking that has to be done.

That’s where the paid tools start to come in. If you want to save time , or spend less of it building backlinks, you’re going to have to put your hand in your pocket. Time is money as they say.

However, various people have various budgets and while one might be able to afford $100+ per month on a subscription service, another may only have a couple of spare dollars to play with.
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I just released the latest edition of my site building tool, SiteBuilder Elite.

SiteBuilder Elite is a PHP script that builds affiliate websites with ease, so if you know nothing about how to build a website, HTML or PHP, it’s a tool that will suit you.

The script runs on your webserver, so it doesn’t matter if you use a PC or a Mac. All site building is done online, through your browser. Any changes you make to a site are site wide and instant, so there’s no need to modify multiple files to ripple a change across a site.

In the new version, I’ve added support for more article directories from which articles are downloaded to build content on pages.

Building a website is only part of the equation for making money online. The other part of the equation is in building backlinks to your sites and driving traffic as a result.

I’ve previously written about ways to get backlinks to your sites and pages in these posts:

Using Article Marketing To Get Traffic
Unique Article Wizard Review
Getting Traffic To Your Websites – Free Options
Getting Traffic To Your Sites – Paid Options

…as well as in my free Blog Linking Tactics report.

A couple of days ago I was contacted about a new bit of software available through the Warrior Forum that would find high-PR pages on blogs on which comments could be left to garner high-PR backlinks to my sites. At $9, Backlink Loophole was a steal.

While the software will identify and list high pagerank pages, you still need to manually write and post comments on the pages it finds. So it’s a semi-automated solution. However, finding high-pagerank pages has never been an easy task and Backlink Loophole takes care of that onerous task. You don’t need to go backlink mad. Writing about 5 comments a day should be possible for anyone and won’t take long. The value of the backlinks you get in return will be worth that small investment in time.

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ll know that I’ve mentioned the AutoBlog Blueprint in several posts. It is, I believe, the most thorough course on blogging available and covers all aspects of setting up an automated blog from keyword research to webhosting, free and commercial plugins to use and the all-important backlinking strategy for sites.

It’s the philosophy I follow for building blogs that I can’t personally maintain in a day-to-day basis, like those I have for sale on the Domains & Blogs For Sale page and other blogs I’m building purely for myself. There are only so many hours in a day after all.

Version 2 of the AutoBlog Blueprint closed to new members a couple of months ago. Now, it’s being relaunched for the 2011 SEO market as Version 3, with added course material and bang-up-to-date marketing and promotion strategies.

When it launches on February 9th, membership will cost $97. That’s a one-time payment, not a monthly fee! However, if you join through this exclusive link:

$30 Discount on Autoblogging Blueprint

…you’ll be able to save $30 and get in for $67 instead.

I do endorse this course because I use it. It’s not a static course either. Mike Johnson is constantly updating the information and techniques in it and it’s become an invaluable resource for me, especially the section on getting backlinks which can be applied to any site, not just blogs.

I’ve previously written about a great plugin that will help boost the value of all the backlinks that you receive to your WordPress site.

And now there’s an additional fantastic new way to achieve the same goal and possibly with even better results!

This WordPress plugin is called Pingback Optimizer. In principle it does the same thing as Paul Forcey’s Indexing Tool plugin – that is, it reads the list of pingbacks that your blog receives and then it tells the search engines about those links. The search engines can then go visit the page on which those links reside, index them and find the backlinks to your site. Add that to your link popularity and link reputation and, hey presto! you have just enhanced your search engine positioning.
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