It is interesting to see someone like Super Affiliate Rosalind Gardner talk up blogging over pay per click advertising as the most effective way to get traffic fast and consistently to your website.

If you know anything about her she has always felt that pay per click advertising when done correctly was the fastest and most effective way to build your internet business.

I am a full time internet marketer now and I spend only a couple hundred dollars a month in program costs and advertising. This is possible because of 3 things primarily.

1. Article writing and submitting
2. Forum marketing
3. Blogging and pinging

I don’t buy hits to my website. I don’t do pay per click advertising. I don’t do ezine advertising. etc. etc.

I have done and still do search engine optimization on my pages and I add fresh content to my site all of the time. In the long run now (part time the past 4 years) this has paid off and is a good investment in your future.

Getting a link pointing back to your website can bring traffic for years and years. Why don’t more people do that? Because it takes effort everyday over a long period of time and they get frustrated and quit.

There are no shortcuts for this although viral marketing brought about by blogging and pinging certainly speeds up the process. So does writing one article and then submitting it thru a service like Article Marketer.

Can you go out and buy hits to your website? YES!

But is that a long term traffic strategy? It is if you are willing to keep buying more traffic because when your quota for purchased hits runs out so does your traffic. You are better off to join a quality traffic exchange program build up some credits, write a quality add, and drive traffic to your site that way. At least this could become self supporting if you write good adds.

The longer you spend on the internet the more you come to appreciate the effort that getting traffic to your website takes. Understand this formula for failure.

No traffic=No Sales=No Money

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