“Just a quick thank you for illuminating the basics of Photoshop to me so that I could complete my project. I can say without hesitation that every conversation with you is an education! (and a delight!) You’re the best! Thanks!”

Suzanne Toro

“…a big thank you to Andrew Seltz: The Go-To Guy!, who gave me some simple but brilliant advice, and I took it by the horns and ran with it. Now, well, I feel I have a purpose once again.”

Website Traffic: You can either pay for it or cast a wide net to pull it in.

Paying is pretty simple (well, technically it’s an art unto itself) but you join up with a PPC program, select your keyword groups, write some ads and start paying.

You can also find websites where your potential visitors hang out and buy some links or ads on those sites.

“If You Knew How To Easily Create One Single Page Website That Earned You $3600 A Year…

If You Knew You Could Create That Site In Just ONE DAY…

If You Knew That This Site Would Be Putting Cash In Your Pocket In Just A Few Days Time…

HOW MANY SITES WOULD YOU MAKE?”

Those are the headlines at the top of the sales page for a new Internet marketing e-book, Niche Marketing on Crack*.

Article marketing is a low cost strategy to direct traffic to a website and begin to develop one-way backlinks to its pages. For new online ventures it offers a great way to build traffic to a site and to establish its authority in a particular niche.

Article Marketing is also an excellent strategy to quickly get a new site listed in search engines like Google and Yahoo!

The basic process for article marketing is this:

“There is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price alone are that person’s lawful prey.”

I first encountered this quote at Bob Bly’s copywriting website. He attributed it to John Ruskin, a British author and critic from the 1800s. I did a little research and found that the source of this quote is not Ruskin, but couldn’t find out who it actually belongs to. If you know, please leave a note with a reference to where you found the citation.

“A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.”

“Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.”

“In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.”

Wow!!

That was all I could manage to say when I saw the traffic stats for this website on Thursday February 1, 2007. I had looked at the stats earlier in the day and they were clicking along at their usual rate. There are a couple of articles on the site that turn a good amount of natural search traffic and also have some inbound links from a couple of blogs. But, around 11:00pm things went nuts!