Getting Traffic?

[dogzilla]

I have a new site i have yet to launch... here are the basics:

Mens Health information site (UK based)
Lots of quality original articles - updated daily - quizes/polls - lots of great content
100% Valid W3C Code

My question is : How do i get the ball rolling and start getting hits? I know its probably a long road - but how do you start? Is it worth paying for advertising and marketing?

[Robsp]

One question is what do you sell and do you sell it online? If you know that U can have an idea whether it makes sense to pay to get people to your site.

[dogzilla]

No i dont sell anything - other than some suggested amazon books we display on the site.

[ByronM]

adwords is still an affordable traffic generation system to get your name out.

At 5 cents per click you can get alot more visitors then paying for inclusion in the search engines.

Say for like altavista or others where you can pay upwords of 15-20.00 per PAGE you want indexed. If you have a 100 page site thats 2k year for inclusion - doesn't even mean you will get ranked where people will find you.

for 2k a year thats alot of clicks on google, overture, kanoodle and goclick and with that many visitors and your traffic increasing the search engines will naturally find there way and index your site

[dogzilla]

I am pretty confident i can get it listed in google fairly easily - top 5 for "mens health" in the UK at least. Hopefully that will bring in some hits.

[gopi]

>> top 5 for "mens health" in the UK at least

Thats a wrong goal :) ...

First Rule of SEO:-
Better aim to rank on hundreds of less traffic but targetted kw's than a couple of star terms