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Originally Posted by MarkTiarra
For sure. When you started how did you go about getting traffic? Even though it's through affiliate programs that I almost always see the really big numbers happen, the few rare exceptions of people who drive traffic completely on their own do pretty well too. Anyway just curious what worked for you early on?
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Honestly sheer desperation and hard work. I had no choice it had to succeed. I just started with search results and went backwards. I would look up some phrases and see what they did by following my way back towards the paysite. I would then do my best to do the same thing without copying them. I would typically rank a considerable amount lower but with each attempt I got better and better.
I also checked out the big link style sites. PK, etc. and read the rules there and used that to my best ability. I would then check other links out that had a similar niche to my own and see whom else they were linking to. I then would just go and try to get listed there as well.
I would cruise the boards on occasion, typically being very silent and just reading along. I would watch for new traffic sources, link trades, or anything I could use to my advantage. I even picked up some very valuable tricks along the way that saved me a great deal of time and effort.
All in all I am fairly certain I spent the first year seeking traffic about eight hours a day five to seven days a week. Of course each week was a little easier than the week before.
I also made a whole slew of AVS sites that had the bare minimum required content in them and they also upsold my own paysite.
Lastly I used email to ask other sites if they would be interested in a link or content trade. Maybe one out of five would reply that also would send traffic.
I found out though that eventually the webmasters would come to you if your site was out there enough and looked decent.