Traffic Generation
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If you spend any time in the any forums or areas where webmasters hangout you can find numerous tips and questions on how to get traffic to your blog or website. These range from ranking well in the search engines to just getting indexed, to pulling in the traffic any web site needs.
Without traffic a website is just a piece of digital dust and does not do the site owner or anyone else any use. This article explains some of the methods I have used over the years to consistently get sites indexed and bringing in the needed traffic. This may not work for all types of sites but they work for me. Follows is a step by step plan describing the methods I use.  I mainly launch sites based on a blogging platform lately so this is mainly going to cover getting sites built upon this type of application launched. This tips work whether your blog is hosted on some site like Blogger.com or even your own domain utilizing WordPress.
First step is content. You do not want any search engine to even see your site before you have a decent amount of unique content. You don’t need to have thousands of pages, in-fact I would recommend against that as it raises questions as to whether the site is spammy or not. Write at least 10 posts without any pinging turned on. These posts need to be approximately 300-600 words. If you are using Wordpress or one of the other platforms that allow you to split posts, then make sure you only show one or two paragraphs for each post. Configure your site to only show at most 5 posts in the front page. Three is actually better. The reason for this is that when a search engine  first visits a site it will only grab a sample of the page. Usually read from the top down. By keeping the amount of text on the front page to a minimum, while letting it find the links to the rest of your posts, will allow more of your content to be indexed on the search engine’s first visit.
