January 13th, 2011 
Admin In this article I will look at 3 critically important ways to generate traffic to your blog or website.
1. Article Marketing
Article marketing is the simplest, cheapest and best way to generate long term, sustainable traffic to your blog. The reason for this is simple-once you have written a good, content filled article that offers value to the reader and an article that you can be proud of, that article if properly promoted can act as a silent, inexpensive salesman for your blog in perpetuity.
You only have to write the article once but you can distribute it widely across the internet among the top article directories and it will always be findable and new to somebody.
Your article will also be picked up by other blog owners and webmasters who in turn will send traffic to your site. The increase in your traffic will be incremental at first but can easily become exponential when it is picked up by a number of webmasters and placed on their blog.
Your article will also provide you with a very valuable backlink from a top article directory and as well as helping your blog to rank well in the search engines, the article itself can also rank well in it’s own right.
2. Social bookmarking
The use of social networking has become a phenomenon and whereas the number 1 search activity on the internet has traditionally been “porn”, now it is social networking.
The success of Twitter and Facebook have been truly phenomenal and the astute of social bookmarking and engaging in sites such as Stumbleupon and Digg will, combined with article marketing, will increase the traffic numbers to your blog very significantly.
It is important to use both of these methods because the traffic from social bookmarking sites may not be as targeted as you would like but they will provide you with an initial boost and help your site to get ranked quickly in the search engines.
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