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There are a lot of methods floating around the Internet these days to supposedly help you generate web traffic. They range from the truly ridiculous, to systems that actually work.

I’ve run several web businesses full time for over five years now. I’ve tried just about every traffic generating method out there. Let me save you some time and tell you what doesn’t work. At least it didn’t for me.

Methods That Are A Waste Of Time:

Free for all web directories: Don’t waste your time. Everyone in only interested in promoting their own offer. They aren’t there to look at yours. The webmaster usually set up such a website for the sole purpose of sending ads to everyone who submits an ad or website to their directory. The ad comes in the acceptance email. No one probably reads those either.

Spamming With Email. Big mistake. Don’t do it. You can get yourself in trouble with your web hosting provider and your ISP. It’s annoying and illegal. You can get a big fine if you get caught. No one wants to get junk mail and they sure won’t buy from those sending it to them.

Push Button Website Creators: How many people waste money on this type of system? Save yourself some time and money and stay away from these. If it were that easy, the owner of the software would be doing it, not selling the system to you.

Buying The Latest Money Making Programs: Too many people get suckered into buying every piece of junk that hits the market. Most of these programs don’t work. Save your money.

Tactics That Work:

Pay By The Click: This method does work. The biggest drawback is the expense. Many people that are just starting out should probably try less expensive methods first. Who wants to spend $200 to make $50?

Social Site Marketing: This method can work but takes a lot of time to implement. First you have to sign up to digg or reddit or another social network and then you have to post on a regular basis so as not to look like a spammer.

If you would like to try a social network, Squiddo or Hubpages work well. These are high traffic websites and you may pick up some extra visitors. Don’t just slap up any junk though. Spend some time and make a good page.

The Very Best Method:

Submitting Articles: This is my favorite traffic generating method. You not only get direct traffic from the article directories, but you also get a lot of highly targeted one-way backlinks.

Take some time to write a good article about your topic. Submit it to the top ten article directories and repeat. How do you find the best article directories to submit to? Type “top 10 article directories” or “best article directories” in your favorite search engine. Many websites maintain a list of all the top article directories.

Not only should you submit to the biggest and best article directories, but also make sure to submit to niche article directories. This will give you the biggest advantage in the search engines due to the related theme of your site and theirs. Also, more people are likely to click through to your website. Example: if you run a health and fitness website, be sure to submit your article to as many health article directories you can find.

Write and submit at least one to three articles per week. This will pay off in the long run and get you lots of quality backlinks and traffic.

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