Originally Posted by After Shock Media

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.