An Affiliate Marketer from the Ground Up

Once you have a site up, one of the biggest obtacles is to get traffic. There’s probably hundreds of thousands of blogs that people put up that never see over a very few visitors because they just sit.

If it’s a blog, or any other site for that matter, that’s updated regularly with fresh content, it will take a while to start seeing a good flow of visitors, but once you’ve submitted the url to the search engines, it will happen.

A good resource for getting backlinks to your site is Michelle MacPhearson’s Social Media Daily Blueprint. I’ve mentioned it here before, but I mention it again because she’s recently updated the content. Just one note…if you’re going to use the methods she advises, I would think about maybe not adding one url to all of the bookmarking sites at the same time. Although I personally don’t have any specific information, I believe Google likes seeing backlinks as it does content…not all at once.

I’m sure there’s some out there that can provide definitive information one way or the other, but when I added one url to nearly every bookmarking site listed, it seemed that it didn’t get the traffic that another site did in which I only added a link here and there. There’s no hard data for this, but the difference was noticeable, but of course these were different niche sites, but both were about the same age with roughly the same amount of content.

After some of things I see though, it’s really a little difficult to try and figure out what the Big G is gonna like or dislike, and by how much.