Generating traffic for new sites.

[invisage13]

Ok after reading a lot of articles it is becoming apparent that unless you hit a REALLy huge idea that gets a lot of hype your not going to see any real incoming traffic from google for 6-12 months.

Trading backlinks with other site will help out with this eventually but for actually getting any traffic from that site (unless you manage to somehow score a front page) is going to be minimal to nill as most backlink swaps just drops you on a links page among numerous other text links.

I have started writing articles that I have submitted to ezines and other sites (Jeremy has posted a couple) that have started generating some clicks but now I have read/heard that because I also have these articles on my site that it will hurt my rankin once I get one (due to duplicate content)

Once I see that the site can draw traffic on its own merhits I dont mind putting a bit of money in to bump it along but until then I am trying to do it on hard work alone but I am starting to get a little confused in what direction I should be putting that effort in to.

I will continue to write my articles and such as I enjoy it and add more content but what steps should I really be taking to start getting more traffic?

[hoursurfing]

Are ezines a thing of the past now? I really dont know much, or anything about them. Are they any good?

THanks

[Holis]

You have any idea how much dup content is out there ?

Honestly, I wouldnt worry...

Think about RSS feeds...

[invisage13]

And in regards to hoursurfers question. Which is better ezines or blogs? or is much of a muchness?

[stillshadow]

Don't underestimate direct traffic from backlinks. I got a good number of quality traffic every day from link exchanges. Also, if you work hard you will see results from Google sooner than that.

[Pokerboy]

only 12% or so needs to be original....so basically type in another heading, and a banner in the middle or something like that.