website traffic

new to doing biz online need some advice

[Duke Johnson]

Hello, I just signed up and was looking for some advice. I have opened a couple of small websites dealing with work at home opportunities. I have tried cpc advertising but find it exspensive. I have spent most of my time trying to get listed on search engines to aquire free traffic. I do have multiple affiliate links on the sites does this kill my chances of being listed? Also I have read that google looks for inbound links to rank a site. That being said, what are the best ways to spread my link and start getting traffic. I have wrote some articles and submitted them to a few sites but I don't know if I'm wasting my time. Can anyone give this greenback some guidence. Cheers

[treeline]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

Spend a little time thinking about where the type of people you're looking for hang out on the web. Then go to those types of sites and offer (in a short, polite, short, email) to swap links.

Look for directories and other sites that will link to you by searching google for terms like 'add url workathome' or "add link mykeyword" etc.

Good luck!

[Duke Johnson]

Thanks for the welcome, This is what I have trouble with, why would someone want to swap links and promote a site offering similar products. Sorry if I sound stupid here I'm new to all this.

[shanliang]

make any websites with articles in the same field,
then link each others...

[Duke Johnson]

Thanks, do you mean submitting acticles to various article sites, or build a site that contains only articles. Thanks

[shanliang]

both...
the key is .... link the traffic to your main site

[Duke Johnson]

Thanks,
I submitted my sites to a few search engines when I first started out. After a sharp learning curve I made some changes to my site title, decripition, keywords ect.
I re-submitted my site but have seen no change, is it just a waiting game or should I be doing somthing else?

[Rosalind]

I submitted my sites to a few search engines when I first started out. After a sharp learning curve I made some changes to my site title, decripition, keywords ect.
I re-submitted my site but have seen no change, is it just a waiting game or should I be doing somthing else?

Both. You have to wait because most new sites encounter the sandbox effect, which means that for whatever reasons they won't rank as well as older sites.

But it is also not enough to submit your site to search engines. Most SE's pick up new sites by finding other sites that link to them, and if your site has no links in then the SE's will consider it worthless and perhaps not even index it at all. So you need to find ways to gather inbound links: directories, blogs, forums, whatever you can think of. Check the linking forum for some good ideas.