Traffic… How Do We Get Traffic?
There are literally too many possible ways to get traffic for me to mention all of them here. BUT, the first step to getting, traffic plain and simply, should always be determining your keyword phrases!
If you go out and start submitting articles, bookmarking, submitting your site to directories, link exchanges, or anything else that you can do to get traffic, without first spending some time on keyword research… your site will be dead in the water without ever understanding why it sunk to begin with 
Getting you website listed in the search engines via various traffic methods is important, but if you are going to do that then you MUST complete the work upfront first. Take for example this blog… I decided that I wanted to brand my name and so my chosen keyword phrase is simply that… Shannon Lueck. And if you type that into Google, you will see that this blog is listed in both the number 1 and number 2 positions. Granted there isn’t a lot of competition for my name, but that is exactly the kind of keyword phrase you want to find when you are starting out.
What I am trying to say is please don’t be so obsessed with the traffic, UNTIL you have figured out the best possible phrases to target for your market. Once you have this done, go wild… write a bunch of articles, complete some link exchanges (or better yet, one-way or three-way link exchanges), start bookmarking… plain and simply GET PEOPLE TO LINK TO YOUR SITE as much as you can. Because now that you have done the legwork upfront, you will be getting a lot of traffic 
I explain exactly how to do this in my Search Engine Optimization Training Guide so if you already have it, study it!!! If not, click on the link and get it and then study it!
This first step is absolutely VITAL to your business and if you want to succeed you must complete it! Good luck and as always please post any comments/questions below
November 20th, 2008 at 10:43 am
SEO is a strange thing. It was easy when I started, to get the search engines to raise a phrase to the top. But the longer I work at this, the longer I realize it takes more than just search engines to get the job done. In 2004, the phrase Coolest Woman on the Planet took my site to page one, space one on google in about 7 days with no real inbound links. It’s still there. But just this past summer, it took almost two weeks to bring another site to the top of Google’s first page with the phrase Make a Million Online. Both phrases are searchable and have multiple searches.
Your keyword phrase article describes the exact methods I used to bring both sites to the top. It does work, and articles that drive traffic using those keyword phrases are an effective means of driving traffic too.