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To grow indefinitely you have to look for permanent solutions.
Permanent traffic sources -- build good relationships w/ your trading partners -- a good link trade will never die. Your buddies won't let you down.
Searh engine placement can be a source of permanent traffic. The search engines only get smarter -- if your site is a real resource (and not just some keyword trick) you will only get more and more traffic as you become more deeply rooted into the internet -- also link popularity will get you more traffic -- the longer you are on the net the more people will be linked to you and the higher your popularity will be. Also the longer that you are in the search engine -- the more priority you get (I heard somewhere that re-submitting can actually reset that er "duration" factor)
The longer your in the biz -- the more people will know who you are as a webmaster -- the more often they will see your link or button all over the fucking place. I remember a couple of years after I had been surfing I came across Molson from Irecommend Sex irecommend.com -- I had remembered his site was a big deal back when I first started so I knew that I should give him a little more respect and special treatment.
Partnership programs -- although I don't use them much now -- damn years down the road you can have a pile of lifetime members under your belt. I was promoting pornmegabucks -- i only got a few signups there, but they were sending me checks over a year after I had quit their program (which not many programs will do) -- I think you really have to have a lot of trust in an ad program to be on a partnership program. If you send signups to JoeBlowCash.com and you have 300 potential lifetime members on there -- and JoeBlowCash decides to cancel you or fuck you hard, you will be out of a LOT of fucking money that you could have been collecting until you were old and fucking gray.
Don't waste your time w/ fly-by-night sites... Don't trade 10,000 hits w/ 1000 losers when you can trade 10,000 hits w/ 10 professionals. Professionals can be identified mostly w/ common sense (talk to them a little) -- 1. they have the technical knowledge and work ethic to produce a very large quantity of sites -- if you meet one pro -- you may in effect be able to do 100+ link trades all in one shot (usually they can do a search/replace or just adjust their script to add you to all their pages) 2. a pro always keeps his sites up -- this means that they have a domain where all the traffic goes through (even if they are using free hosts) -- saves me time -- if some loser webmaster has to email me every week when the free host kicks him off (or more likely the case he just gets deleted off the free host and you never hear from that webmaster again) -- then that's basically a waste of my time. Invest time in people that are worth investing time in.
3. they don't fuck around w/ child porn links, popups, or other stupid bullshit -- meaning pro's aren't too greedy -- you take a little piece of pie for yourself and you will have a lot of people coming over to eat pie with you.
I could write more but if I give away all my secrets... hahaha!
-- pete
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