If you think about huge internet sites such as Google and MySpace, it’s obvious that they get their traffic from viral marketing and simple word of mouth. For the average website owner, however, word of mouth doesn’t really happen too much since you’ll need a genuinely useful service for people to talk about you. For a basic site, you can still easily drive traffic by article marketing, forum posting, blog commenting, social bookmarking, software submissions, SEO link building and more. It’s best to learn just a few traffic generation methods really well and use them for each new site you roll out.

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