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I've been doing some link exchanges - how much of your traffic comes from that? How about buying ad space in other relavant websites? does that work at all?
What ways are there to get a consistent traffic flowing to your site? is it a brand recognition problem? i.e. everyone goes to yahoo/msn because those are established. But does it mean that smaller brands have no chance of being remembered?
I'd like to hear people's experiences and thoughts on this. I'd relly prefer not to rely only on SERPs, and it seems the only way to go about this is to build some sort of brand and word of mouth.
I have seen fairly good results in link campaigns. If you find good sites that will link to you there is usually some quality traffic that will come with the link.
The trick is that the more links you build, the more search engines will find you, and if your content is good enough you will gain SERPs traffic as well.
What I have found is that the traffic from the links you build is usually better targeted than the SERPs listings because the people are already looking at that topic and are less likely to just do another search.
The problem is that most sites that will exchange links usually hide the links from the visitors (or make them tough to find anyway) which makes the link nearly useless. Try to find sites that make links accessible to their visitors, and make a link to their site available to yours.
* Come to think about it, has anyone noticed that the top sites in the SERPs usually don't hide outgoing links on their sites? Maybe that is why so many directory sites are at the top of the SERPs.
