While reading various internet marketing forums there are a hole lot of tips about getting traffic and backlinks to your sites.
Most are a bit spammy and almost require outsourcing due the repetitive mindless tasks necessary.
A tip I got from someone in the blogosphere a couple of years ago that I haven't seen at all on the internet marketing side of things is to leverage blog carnivals.
The advantages of submitting a blog post to a carnival is that:
- You will get nice backlinks from a variety of blogs due to all other entries.
- You will get some initial direct visitors since most other participants will read your entry.
- And last but not least you will get a truck load of ideas for new post, both by complying to each carnival's rules and by reading the other entries.