How can you drive “free” traffic to your blog? You can’t. But that’s only because nothing is really free. In the end you can either buy traffic with money or you can buy traffic by investing time. Time IS money, hence my statement that there’s no free traffic. If your goal is to drive traffic to your blog and pay for it with an investment of your time, instead of with gold or coin of the realm, then you’re in luck because that is entirely possible if you are ingenious enough to figure out the best ways to do it. Therein lies the problem. Let’s make believe...

There are two main categories of links: the inbound links (also called backlinks) and reciprocal links. Inbound links exist on other sites and point to your site. The more the merrier, and it doesn’t matter if the subject of the websites are related or not. Reciprocal links involve two sites exchanging links that point to each other’s site. To add value to your site and improve your ranking at the search engines, these reciprocal links should point to a site with a similar theme or subject. How do you find related sites that are willing to exchange links with you? Here are four ways to find...

Having incoming links to your website is the single most powerful way to gain recognition in the eyes of the search engines, Google, Yahoo and MSN. The types of links that you have pointing at your website, however, will make a large difference in the type of attention and recognition that you get from the search engines. Things that worked a few years ago are not necessarily the things that work well now. In order to stay on top of the search engine result pages, you need to stay on top of what the search engines require. Several years ago, it was a fairly easy thing to get to the top of the search...

Would you like to know about a new robot that works for you even when you are asleep? Let me tell you about Zeus. . . he is a simple, intelligent, internet robot that builds a link directory and creates reciprocal links for your web site. Zeus is the first of a new breed of innovative, robotic software products for webmasters. Zeus is a smart internet robot that traverses the web, spidering sites and creating for any webmaster, a vertical themed link directory. Train him to find web sites, matching your unique themes or subjects, and he will zoom off to find thousands of them. Zeus then helps you to...

Reciprocal links exchange isn’t new to the online market. I remember doing links exchange in late 90s and since that time reciprocals have helped me a lot. But why some are getting top positions on search terms with reciprocal links, and others fall behind? Where is the line that separates winners and those who blame everything on the changing nature of search engines? Sharing personal experience I can say that reciprocal links are one of the great inventions of the Internet. Links save tons of job for search engines. Imagine how much information search engines would need to index! They already...