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Now how do I get traffic? Everyone hates spammers and use it against me or ignore it. I have no income to use for advertising (and in my experience, you can throw thousands of dollars at AdWords anyway without ever getting quality traffic).
What do I do? Really. This very important aspect of a business I am really clueless about.
It is extremely frustrating submitting it to Digg and only get 1 digg and then it is forgotten. Not buried for being bad -- just drowned in the flood or crap.
I don't know what to do anymore in this day and age. It was much easier just a few years ago.
Seems extremely outdated.
in principle it's the same now as it was then. With minor tweaks this primer is relevant today as well
Work smart above all, but work hard as well is the answer to your question. If you are working on a subject you enjoy, that makes it all that much easier.
The most important thing however is not to get your visitors, but to keep your visitors and have them bring in new visitors. Every visit you bring in via either of the above mentioned methods must be capable of generating 1.1 visit in the future. In that way a chain reaction will be started where every new visit causes more visits in the future giving a steady grow of your traffic.
Unfortunately, most sites on the web are so boring or uninteresting, that there is no growfactor 1.1, but 0.9, or in many cases 0.5 or lower. those sites die, unless there is a constant new source of traffic, paid or otherwise.
