Okay. First and foremost Ill warn you ahead of time - this will be long lol.

Second off - major rule when it comes to Marketing or traffic, do not EVER use these traffic sites. Some of them are good, most are not. The thing about these traffic sites is that they are never really going to do what they say they are going to do. And if they do by chance send 10,000 real people (not bots) to your site? All its going to do is rack up your hosting and bandwidth bill. These are "people" that will have no real interest in your website or your specific niche. These are usually PTR people that are getting PAID 1cent or whatever amount to visit your site. Chances are they will not actually care what your site is about, what you offer or who you are. So just don't do it. Save your money for something else such as:

PPC: Pay per click (PPC) is an Internet advertising model used on websites, in which advertisers pay their host only when their ad is clicked. With search engines, advertisers typically bid on keyword phrases relevant to their target market. Content sites commonly charge a fixed price per click rather than use a bidding system. These are the ads you see on Google when you do a search. People WILL not get paid to click these ads, however, they will most likely be interested in what you are selling - these are semi targeted leads.

Article Marketing: This is what I do for a living and have become very successful because its VERY helpful in getting not only visitors TO your site, but getting targeted visitors. If that weren't enough the articles also generate SERPs. A SERP is a Search Engine Result Page - its the placement of where your site is located on the engines. If your SERPs are good, you will be able to be on the first few pages of the engines. The first few pages, while they might obviously seem like the best place to be, the first few pages or the first page of the engines (yahoo, google, ask) are visited by people that search for your keywords, that assume that "wow this person is on the first page of the engines, they MUST be a good business or site". While this isn't always true, some sites on the first page ... suck. Its still the thought that counts when it comes to people.

Blogs: Since your site is a blog, the amount of visitors you are receiving are most likely through spyders and crawls done by the engines. Blogs are nice, but there are also a few rules you should be following. For example, don't overcloud your site with ads. Don't have an RSS feed, feeding unoriginal content on to the blog. Make sure you have good grammar, good spelling, and you actually make sense. Be sure to optimize your blog and use GOOD keywords. Also, make sure that (where possible) you fill out your meta tags and make sure you have no broken links. If you have any of the above negatives, Google and the other engines will be less likely to crawl your page.

Here is also an article I wrote about the best ways to get web presence - most of which I already included.

Hopefully that helps you out a little bit more when it comes to SERPs, traffic, optimization, etc. :o)
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