When you’ve been caught by scam after scam, it becomes very difficult to stay positive. Oh yes, I dabbled in the pay per click, didn’t know what I was doing, lost my shirt. I can afford 5 cents per click but when other companies are willing to pay 5 dollars, I’m smart enough to take myself out of the game.

Some marketers suggest forums. Well, I’ve tried that too. Somehow my little messages and small link back to my site get lost in those thousands upon thousands of pages. It is way too labor intensive and not something I want to spend my day at.

It would be nice if I ranked number one in the search engines and didn’t have to worry about getting the traffic to my site myself. But that will come later, hopefully. Then maybe we will be millionaires. I am not millionaire now, nor do I pretend to be. I’m am on my way though, It’s just a matter of time.

OK, let’s get back on track, or should I say traffic. Now that I told you pay per click is a waste of money and forums are a waste of time, how do you get traffic. Well, you could blog, but that would only work if you have scores of traffic going to your blog. Press releases are another suggestion, but most of those sites cost money, to me I would just rather write a free article.

Then there’s social bookmarking. I still haven’t quite figured this one out. Isn’t it suppose to be others who bookmark you that make you popular, that can’t happen if you don’t have those people visiting you. Then there is MySpace or Facebook. Well you can tell you friends and family, but chances are they already know.

From experience, the fastest, cheapest way of getting good traffic is through article marketing. That’s where you write an article like this and send to it out to various sites. If you write good articles, you can get hundreds and sometimes thousands of visitors per day, in less than one month. Of course it depends on the sites you submit to and how many articles you write.

First you need to write an article or two. Next you need to submit it to a directory. One of the most popular is Ezine Articles. They also tend to have the higher standards. Submit to them first. If they accept it, you know it’s good. Then you can re-submit that article to other directories.

You can get some free submitters that will submit your article to a number of directories. Usually, if it’s free it is some kind of software that runs on your computer. The up side is that it’s free and it can help to automate the submission process which makes less work for you.

Unfortunately, here is the down side. These types of submitters are not supported, they hold static information, and only for about 100-200 sites. Your article will be sent to a general article directory, which doesn’t rank as high as niche directories. Also, each article will be exactly the same. Search engines don’t particularly like that.

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