A very simple, free but effective means of increasing your blog traffic and creating more backlinks is through blog carnivals. All you have to do to participate in a blog carnival is to type in ‘blog carnival’ in a search engine and set up a new account here after confirming your email address.
Part and parcel of an effective Internet marketing strategy is to ensure that your website is also present in the realm of social networks and media sharing. Visitors do not only arrive at websites only through search results, but also through links that their peers share through these social networks.
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