I've been working building the links to my sites. More often than not, it does help in term of PR gain. But not really that much on getting the desired traffic. :-|
I guess to get traffic, I ought to look more into "social networking" sites and be interaction with others more often...just a thought, yet to find out about it as to "how?".
Yup. Most link directories (and article submission sites) are just good for juicing up your pagerank and backlinks. They get few visits by people that are actually looking for information - so you won't get many click-throughs.
A few things I've found that work...
Write articles on Associated Content with links to your site. You can write a brief targeted article that will get a bit of traffic on its own - and some users will follow through to your site. In this case, your site is your "reference" - so they're clicking through to get more information. So you get backlinks + a little bit of traffic.
Some niche article sites do get traffic. For example, I've been using Good Tutorials with pretty good luck - each new posting gets at least 1-200 clicks in the first day. Gimp Tutorials is also pretty good, and Good PHP Tutorials is ok.
Social bookmarking seems to be a popular trend, too, but be sure to be a little active in the community - or else you might get marked as a spammer. So when I submit to a site (usually I use DZone, since it fits my niche), I also browse the other new links, rate, and comment on things.
- Walkere
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