To get traffic to your blog you need to have articles or ads that rank high in the search engines.

The key to ranking high in the search engines is having a lot of backlinks. The more back links you have the higher you will rank.

The three top ways to get backlinks are from writing articles and manually submitting them to the different directories,getting pay per click ads and to straight out buy the links.

If you are going to use pay per click then you need to make sure that your keywords are optimized and target to the audience you are trying to get. If they are not you could very well lose a ton a money.

Buying links to your blog may seem like a good (and easy) way to get traffic to your blog but you have to buy quality links. The higher the Pr of the site is the better your blog will rank but the higher the PR the more the links are going to cost you. This can cost a lot of money because if the links are from low PR sites they will do you little good.

You also want to make sure that the sites that are linking to you are in the same category as your blog. When you have links that are from the same kind of site as yours the search engines hold them in higher importance.

If you are writing article’s the more articles you submit the greater chance you have of people reading it and going to your blog. Article marketing has two benefits. The first is that it gives people a sample of what you have to offer them. If they like what you wrote chances are good they will want to see what else you have to say so they will click over to your blog. The other benefit is that it gives you quality backlinks.

You can also write and manually submit your articles to directories for free. Most article directories don’t charge you to submit your article and you can use the author resource box to put your links to your blog in. Generally you can use two links in an article resource box.

There are two different ways to article market. The first way is to write your article and manually submit it to a directory. When you do this you need to write a new article for every directory you submit to so you don’t end up with duplicate content. The other way you can go is to use an article submission site. Writing new articles and manually submitting them takes a lot of time but it’s also free.

Using an article submission site will save you a lot of time because they will submit all of your articles for you. It is very important to use an article submission site that sends out truly unique content to the directories. You’d be surprised at how many of them don’t send out unique content and if they don’t, you will end up with a lot of duplicate content on the web. Duplicate content makes the search engines unhappy and if the search engines are not happy, you are not happy.