Strategies for generating traffic

I'm revisiting my to-do list for January 2005:

• Set up a RSS feed on www.perfect-party-ideas.com Done and working!
• Research the 10 most popular themes for kids' parties and write the pages including all my affiliate links. I'm thinking about it but can't show anything yet
• Prepare to submit to the PPC search engines. Not even thinking about it
• Build traffic This is what I would like to discuss in this post

I checked http://www.perfect-party-ideas.com 's rankings today:

Google	>30
Fast	7
Ask Jeeves	>30
AltaVista	7
Inktomi	7
Yahoo Search	7
MSN	12

Not to bad for less than an hour's work. Read here how I've done it.

Google's >30 is much worse than what it looks - It's actually +- 650!!

The next step is to improve my rankings on Google to The Party Works and I'm very greatfull for it, but that is not enough.

Surely there is something I can do to get links?

Well, there is and I'm about to try it out.

Submitting an article that I've written to article submission web sites.

Submission is free and any one can copy the article (with all its links in tact) and publish this on their web sites and/or ezines. Each time my article is published I have a link from that web site to my web site. When the (foreign) web site gets spidered, my link is followed by the spider back to my web site. The Google spider loves these links and the more links I have that are published on other web sites, the higher my web site will rank.

This will take a little longer than the "less than 48 hours to become number 7 on Yahoo" but it is the only way with Google. And Google is important enough to spend the effort and energy to set this up.

Here is a list of article submission sites:

http://www.aracontent.com/
http://articleresponder.com/
http://businessknowhow.com/newsletter/articleguidelines.htm
http://cerebuswebmaster.com/onsite/articles/submit_article.html
http://freezinesite.com/articles.cgi?action=add
http://goarticles.com/ulogin.html
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aabusiness/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aageneral/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aainet/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ArticlePublish/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ArticlePublisher
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/articles4you2use4promotion/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/articlesubmission/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/articles_archives/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/article_announce
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/article_announce_list/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/epub
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ezinezone
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Free-Content/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Free-Reprint-Articles
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freeezinearticles
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freelance_promotion/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreeWrites
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freezinecontent
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Free_eContent/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hersmallbusiness
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/I_Need_Content/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/netwrite-publish-announce
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PromoteYourArticle/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/publisher_network
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/qc_reprint_articles
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReprintArticles-Paradise
http://opportunityupdate.com/articles
http://www.theallineed.com/submit-articles.htm
http://thewhir.com/find/articlecentral/suggest.asp
http://top7business.com/submit/
http://www.1st-in-articles.com/
http://www.addme.com/nlsubmit.htm
http://www.advertisingknowhow.com/
http://www.allnetarticles.com/
http://www.amazines.com/
http://www.aracontent.com/
http://www.articlecentral.com/
http://www.articlecity.com/
http://www.articlecity.com/article_submission.shtml
http://www.articlehub.com/
http://www.articles911.com/
http://www.articletrades.com/
http://www.articlewarehouse.com/
http://www.authorconnection.com/
http://www.boconline.com/sub-art.htm
http://www.business-dynamics.com/resource_library/index.html
http://www.businesstoolchest.com/articles/submit.shtml
http://www.bytesworth.com/articles
http://www.cerebuswebmaster.com/onsite/articles.html
http://www.certificate.net/wwio/ideas.shtml
http://www.clickforcontent.com/
http://www.clickforcontent.com/cgi-bin/epro/print.pl
http://www.clickz.com/
http://www.connectionteam.com/
http://www.connectionteam.com/submit.html
http://www.digital-women.com/submitarticle.htm
http://www.dime-co.com/articlesub.html
http://www.ebooksnbytes.com/articles/submit.shtml
http://www.expertarticles.com/
http://www.ezine-writer.com.au/
http://www.ezinearticles.com/
http://www.ezinetrendz.com/
http://www.family-content.com/articles/submit.shtml
http://www.freesticky.com/stickyweb/submit.asp
http://www.freesticky.com/stickyweb/submitarticle.asp
http://www.goarticles.com/
http://www.hitsnclicks.com/contributors
http://www.holisticjunction.com/
http://www.home-business-directory.com/addarticle.htm
http://www.howtoadvice.com/Submit
http://www.ideamarketers.com/
http://www.ideamarketers.com/writers.cfm
http://www.learningfolder.com/submitarticle.aspx
http://www.linksnoop.com/
http://www.mailbiz.com/
http://www.makingprofit.com/
http://www.marcommwise.com/
http://www.marketing-seek.com/
http://www.marketing-seek.com/articles/submit.shtml
http://www.mastersyndicator.com/
http://www.maxebook.com/
http://www.netterweb.com/articles
http://www.netterweb.com/articles/articlesubmit.htm
http://www.opportunityupdate.com/doorwaytosubmit.html
http://www.parentclicks.com/
http://www.powerhomebiz.com/termsofuse/articlesubmission.htm
http://www.profitpage.com/articles.htm
http://www.readycontent.com/
http://www.selfgrowth.com/
http://www.simplysearch4it.com/article/articledir.php
http://www.submityourarticle.com/
http://www.theallineed.com/submit-articles.htm
http://www.thephantomwriters.com/
http://www.top7business.com/
http://www.topica.com/lists/freeezinecontent
http://www.upromote.com/newsletter/submit.html
http://www.vectorcentral.com/
http://www.vectorcentral.com/articles-form.html
http://www.web-source.net/articlesub.htm
http://www.webmasterarticles.net/
http://www.webmasterslibrary.com/submit.shtml
http://www.womans-net.com/
http://www.work911.com/cgi-bin/links/add.cgi
http://www.zinos.com/cool/zinos/submitarticle.html
http://www.zongoo.com/

What a long list I've got - I'm sure there is software that will do the submission for me? Any body out there got any ideas?

Kind Regards

Anne-Marie Killer
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