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I am a active member of several forums. In my free time, I usually give advise to strangers who are not familiar with computers or need some help in troubleshooting their PC. I thought that's all there was to forums until recently I put up my own computer shop selling various used or secondhand PC parts for a really low price. Consequently, I created a website to sell my goods but I had a hard time getting traffic which means I was not getting enough attention. The sale online was poor and I was getting frustrated. I looked for advertisers to help me promote my product but most of them offered it for a fee. I don't have money to spare set aside for that. I was thinking about some other options when I remembered that I have the forums to help me out.

This was a good move in my part. Since I am actively participating in helping out visitors and other members in those forums, my postings helped my credibility. I posted a link to my website, making sure that it is of decent font size and color and used it as my sig. From time to time, I refer them to my website when I give advice. My forum posting efforts proved fruitful. Not only did I earn an increase in traffic for my website, orders came pouring in from all over after reading my posts in the forums.

If you are looking for ways how to promote your website without incurring expenses for advertisements, then probably forum posting is the best way to do it. Another good thing about forum posting is that it gives you the opportunity to explain to the readers what your website is all about and why it is worth the click.

People who are currently using a social bookmarking site or sites already understand the great benefits that they can bring not only to your blogs and websites but your business as well.

Let me first explain what social bookmarking is for all of you that may not already know. Social bookmarking will bring your blog or website more traffic. As an internet marketer this is exactly what you want..more traffic to your site.

Every link that you leave on these social bookmarking sites will bring traffic back to the directed site. As you begin to submit your sites to these bookmarking sites (Digg, Twitter, Delicious, Stumbeupon-just to name a few) your site will benefit by moving up in the rankings for search engines such as Google and Yahoo.

How do you use social bookmarking?

First you need to find a social bookmarking site that you would like to become a member of. The registrations process for these sites it usually quick and painless, so just do a search in Google and pick a site that you like.

After you have signed up to these social sites you may begin to submit links to your blogs, squidoo lenses, or whatever you would like to bookmark. I have found that the easiest way to do this is to:

First, sign into the bookmarking site and click to submit/ enter new site.

Next, when asked to do so just fill in the form the bookmarking site provides you. This is where you will need to enter the website information, URL and a quick comment about the site you are marking just to let others know where they will be directed to.

That's it! You have bookmarked your first site.

Keep in mind that these sites don't like it much when you try to add a whole bunch of your own websites at one time, therefore, it is a good idea to make some friends on these sites that can assist you in adding your web pages and in return you may do the same for them.

So start bookmarking and you will be able to watch as your site/blog begins to rise in the search engines as more and more people begin to find your pages.

A linking strategy is a methodology to create quality links to achieve your objectives, in this case, to create traffic to your AdSense website.

One of the irrefutable points is that you must have good quality content in your website. You should also publish outbound links that your site users will find valuable. Finally, you should have a target list of external sites from which you can request links. In other words, you need to have content, inbound links and outbound links. The strategy to adopt is also known as linking.

As mentioned in our articles, it is imperative to have links from relevant sites. The search engine will most probably not recognize a link from a web site on exercises to lose weight to another website on choosing baby names for your new born baby. With so many recent discussions on Google penalizing sites which have no value and backlinks from irrelevant sites, you may want to bear this in mind - create good content, link to great content and great content will link to you. Create a good network of links. It will provide user with a quality experience while surfing your site.

However it should not become an obsession. Treat linking as one important aspect to drive traffic to your website.

At the very least, you should put the basics in place by making your site link friendly and publishing content that will be attractive to your existing customers as well as those you hope to attract through linking. Once you have the basics in place, the natural momentum of the web will take over and your link popularity will grow organically.

As a site owner, what can you do to boost your link popularity?

Do nothing. Obviously not a choice we recommend you to undertake. You jolly well cannot expect your traffic to increase unless you do something about it right?

Read up more by following the steps mentioned in this website. While it is important to consistently update yourself on some steps you can undertake to improve your popularity listing, it is important that some of the fundamentals laid out in this website will form the bedrock where you create traffic from.

Hire freelancers. Most of us do not have the extra buck to spare. If you have read our articles on creating traffic with little cost, you should have gained some knowledge to create links and traffic without spending much money. However if you do have some more to spare, you may wish to employ freelancers to do the linking job for your website.

Blog and Ping was a strategy to quickly get these new sites into the search engines. Blog and Ping is a technique that can get your website indexed in a few hours or just a few days. I just see the blog and ping as a great way to get the indexing quicker and updated more often. I know that track backs and blog and ping work although it still seems a bit worthless to me, who wants to click on a link to a page that references the article you just read. Using the Blog and Ping method "manually", my adsense income increased substantially.

Marketing

There is no doubt; the most complicated marketing technique for any Internet marketer to learn is how to get your sites indexed. Online marketing strategies change like the weather but one thing that will always remain true and that's the power of backlinks. One of the core marketing strategic objectives of social networks is to expand your reach and open up new avenues of networking.

Blogging

Even with all my hours of research, it took months more to discover the simple, workable connection between blogging and pinging that capitalized on the design and function of search engines. I've tried "black hat" tricks, like blogging and pinging, hidden text- a lot of stuff that search engines eventually banned altogether. Many blogging tools Like Moveable Type and WordPress now have a integrated blog ping features.

Post

Simply put, blogging is the hottest new form of content, and pinging is how you let the search engines and the world know you've got fresh new content posted. Each post contains links back to your site, so when the spiders find the posts they love so, they also find YOUR SITE. I have an automated list of about 30 odd sites that WordPress pings every time I publish a post. Use a Proxy Server to make your posts minizing any IP footprints.

Google

Goggles algorithms are leap years ahead of any other Search Engine. Google themselves will tell you that they would rather discover new URL's by finding links than getting them via submission. As the saying goes... content is king... but GOOD content will rule the (Google) world. Although content IS king, there a number of sites that are just small pages, flash sites or have no keywords in the few content pages that rank well in Google.

Sites

According to Google's patent it seems like they may value slow-growing sites over quick-growing ones. Many SEO experts believe that sites optimized around certain themes, or niches rank better in the search engines. I've been building websites myself for the past 10 years now, and helping others get their own businesses started, and I'm finding that people new to this have a much smaller learning curve and better chance of success when they don't have to build the types of websites that sitesell style hosts teach.

Traffic

I have not found a faster way to get my new sites indexed and traffic coming to them than by using Blogger. Blogs are getting traffic that static websites only dream of. It's NOT about traffic exchanges, exit-traffic, pop ups, pop under, or any of these 'junk traffic' methods. While "Tagging And Pinging" can be used to quickly and easily drive an insane amount of backlinks and traffic to your sites in a very short period of time, it is only "part" of the entire "system" you will need to learn. There are many very good reasons for setting up a blog for your business, but immediate search engine traffic is one of the bestthat I can think of.

Link

A couple of years ago, when search engine marketers realized that the more incoming links a site had, the better it would rank (that if all other things being equal) a cottage industry of link-farms sprouted up to take advantage of this knowledge, and also to abuse it. Build something of value and give people a reason to link to you. By writing a blog and placing some site links in the posts, the search engines will spider the links, and the pages shortly after you blog. Blog pinging is considered by many to be an excellent source of building link popularity while gaining mass global exposure to your site at the same time. One critical success factor in boosting your link popularity is to use the blog and ping technique to notify lots of other sites about new content on your web site.

Spiders

With a normal website, you post new content and you wait for the search engine spiders to come in to crawl your site to index new content (which can take from 48-hours to a week or more to happen. Search engine spiders love blog content it's fresh, regularly updated and is the best online community tool around.

If you're tempted to get into 'Blog and Ping'can I suggest that you pause for a second before you swallow all the rubbish that is being said about it to sell these automatic services. One critical success factor in boosting your link popularity is to use the blog and ping technique to notify lots of other sites about new content on your web site. The last six months has seen a massive rise in content theft blogs and spam blogs, and there's one thing these blogs usually have in common, and that's the whole "Blog and Ping" thing, but if you don't know what Blog and Ping is, don't feel bad, because most people don't. Everyone with a site at some point wants more traffic so bad that they find themselves making choices they'd never make under normal circumstances.

The major work for your site is done after design and publishing - or is it?

You have pin-pointed your niche, have done your keyword research and found your business edge. You optimized the text in your copy to reflect the preferred keywords and spent hours designing the most perfect template for your site. Your web site is published after many hours of absolute slave work. You have created great images, excellent colors and have inserted your auto-responder code for signing customers up. You desperately need this site indexed in Google so that customers can find you. So is the major work done - not yet my dear reader.

Step one: Create a blog on your site
Use the commercial script library inside your hosting panel to create a blog on your site. This installation can be in the root folder or in a directory named after one of your main keywords. Install a blog plug-in that will create an XML sitemap and continuously update it as new posts are added to the blog. Ensure that you configure your ping services under the Settings / Writing / Update Services. Create at least four unique, original keyword relevant posts on this blog.

Step two: Create a sitemap
Here is a unique twist. Although there are various extremely good sitemap creator software options on the web, you can use the XML sitemap plug-in to do this for you. It can be set to automatically create the sitemap and also automatically update the sitemap after posts to your blog. The plug-in can be configured to place the sitemap in the blog folder or in any other location within your site. It would be preferable to have the sitemap located in the root folder. You can also configure the plug-in to include other sub-folder pages of your site in the sitemap.

Step Three: Create another blog
Create another blog at one of the main free blogging sites using your main keyword as the name of this blog. Obviously this should not cost anything. Create another 2 unique, original keyword relevant posts on this additional blog. Use H1 and keyword bolded tags pointing to your blog or main site index page in these posts.

Step Four: Submit your site to the search engines
If you do not have a search engine webmaster tools account, create an account, using one of the free mail services, to access the webmaster tools. Use that mail address to create a master search engine webmaster tools account. Log into the search engines webmaster tools account, add your site and follow the prompts to tell the search engines where the sitemap is located on your web site.

That is it. I have seen results within 4 hours, but typically rather allow approximately 18 hours for the first result to appear.