How to drive traffic to your site

Right. So I’ve got my site all set up and geared to earn me money. The homepage is set. People can buy links 24/7. This blog’s theme looks good (at least I think so) and the adsense is tuned. What I need now is traffic - lots of traffic. This is the usual problem that 99.999% of webmasters face. How do you drive traffic to your site?

I’m still learning so I’m compiling a list of ways that I’ve discovered… This will be a fluid list as I will be updating it as I learn.

1. Tell your family, friends, collegues, anyone you know
2. Tell your online friends
3. Contribute to an active online community and have a link to your site in your signature
4. Use a social networking site. Eg. sign up to MySpace, create a profile, add some friends, and links to your site. MySpace is really slow for me, it’s super clunky, and I just don’t get it. For some reason though, it’s really popular so here’s my space
5. Post to a mailing list, eg. Yahoo discussion groups
6. Post comments on popular blogs.
7. Submit to some free link directories or good paid ones.
8. Buy advertising. Eg.
   
9. Start a blog and set it to ping aggregation sites so your blog shows up on sites like Technorati. People will be able to randomly find you
10. Write good content. Write it and they will come…
11. Added 16/10/06: Upload a great YouTube video and share it with everyone. Not convinced? Just check out LonelyGirl15 and the amount of publicity she’s generated!
12. Added 20/10/06: If you have an interesting article / concept / news, try to get dugg or slashdotted - beware of the slashdot effect though!

The trouble is… a blog about making money really needs to make money in order to start a internet frenzy. If the links thing takes off, then this blog will surely also get a lot of attention. I sold another $6 worth this week so I’m over the $10 mark! woohoooo…! $999,987.33 til a $million :D

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