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I never did article marketing for a long, long time because I always heard the following things:

1. If you submit an article to hundreds of directories you’ll be extremely lucky to get 50 daily visitors from it.
2. If you submit an article to the hundreds of article directories then the backlinks in only one or two of the articles will actually count as Google will discount the other articles as duplicate content.
3. The people I saw actually doing article marketing made crappy little sites which didn’t have a lot of traffic or didn’t make a lot of money.

This put me off - as far as the many promotional methods I could use article marketing really looked like it SUCKED so i didn’t even bother trying it.

I recently posted some tips on how to use video to make money online and promote your website.

One method was posting your videos on sites like YouTube. However, simply posting is not enough.

You want to make sure your video gets as many views as possible to promote your message/brand and/or generate traffic/sales on your website.

TechCrunch has published a brilliant guide on how to increase your exposure on sites like YouTube, possibly into the millions.

Read it here.

If you haven’t noticed that use of web video has been exploding then you’ve been hiding under a very big rock, with your lots of mud rammed down your ear-hole and wearing a blindfold.

Internet video is now becoming an extremely important factor in almost any website. So much so that use of video in internet marketing is now almost quintessential if you want to keep on top of your competitors.

No matter your niche or style of marketing, web video is likely to be a huge help in increasing your traffic, reader loyalty and conversions.

I recently came across these astonishing stats that outline the need for video and audio on your websites:

• 58% of the US adult population never reads another book after high school.
• 42% of college graduates never read another book.
• 80% of US families did not buy or read a book last year.
• 70% of US adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.
• 57% of new books are not read to completion.
• Most readers do not get past page 18 in a book they have purchased

Not to mention these crazy facts:

• YouTube is serving over 100 million video views a day (that’s 3 billion a month!).
• In July Americans alone viewed more than 9 billion videos online.

But how can you cash in on this video phenomenon to make more sales, create products, increase reader loyalty and drive more traffic to your site?

Here are 20 ways…

When I have the time to poke my head around some of the webmaster and money making forums out there I frequently see two things.

1. People wondering how they can increase traffic to their site.
2. People who don’t have a lot of experience giving other inexperienced people advice on increasing traffic.

This often leads to people following the wrong advice, and then feeding it to other people.

So I’ve decided to compile a list of 65 site traffic & link building techniques.

Getting traffic to your website should not be a problem – it just takes time and effort and it won’t happen if you sit there doing nothing.

65 Traffic Building Techniques:

1. Write something great about your niche and email other bloggers to let them know – there’s a good chance they’ll link to you.
2. Have a signature link in forums that points to your site.
3. Post links to your pages to social bookmarking sites.

This is part of an extensive review of Portal Feeder 2.0.
Click here to view the first page of the Portal Feeder Review series.

I know that many of you will be itching to know what effect some of the Portal Feeder promotional strategies and tools have had. Here are a couple for your to bite into:

PortalFeeder Example of the Blog Network Power

Portal Feeder 2 members are always boasting examples on how this has improved their rankings. I am one of them!

You can read about the Portal Feeder blog network in this post.

Using this process I have seen some great results. One example of success is where I managed to bring a 2-word term that I was ranking on page 2 of Google into the top ten. This is a hugely competitive term that has 1.5 billion pages in the results.

I’m now currently in the number 7 spot and it brings an extra 1000 visitors a month to my site from Google.

And that’s just 1 term!!

The difference from being on page 1 to page 2 is huge and I’m now using more portalfeeder promotional techniques to push myself even higher.

Unfortunately I can’t reveal the niche or the word because I know people will jump all over it.

This is part of an extensive review of PortalFeeder.com
Click here to view the first page of the Portal Feeder Review series.

There are lots of different promotional strategies out there, using Squidoo, using social bookmarking sites, article marketing, using sites like MySpace, using videos etc. But these methods are often easy to try, but difficult to master.

Trying to learn and master each of these promotional tactics is extremely difficult. Fortunately portalfeeder.com is packed with advanced training from a variety of Portal Feeder mentors.

Each of these mentors brings their own skills to the table which they gladly share with the Portal Feeder community.

They have put together a variety of advanced training booklets which you can use as a shortcut to master different promotional, monetization and site-building tactics.

I’ll briefly discuss a couple of my favorites:

This is part of an extensive review of Portal Feeder 2.0.
Click here to view the first page of the Portal Feeder Review series.

If there was anything that attracted me to join Portal Feeder it was the promotional tools that were offered.

I actually got in touch with an existing member before I joined and quizzed them on what the promotional tools that they had available.

I was instantly hooked – and in the past 6 months it has become even better!

Portal Feeder Promotional Power

The Blog Network

My favorite promotional tool from Portal Feeder 2 had to the ability to build permanent links through the portal feeder blog network.

Many of the Portal Feeder members have become part of the PF blog network and allow other members to submit quality content to their site.

There are nearly 650 blogs in this network!

It is a brilliant way for you to distribute quality content among other related blogs and link back to related and useful pages on your own site.

This is a really natural and Google friendly way to build links to your site and the power of this is huge!

Even better is that the Portal Feeder system makes it possible for you to create a number of posts at once, and make them all unique to avoid any duplicate content issues.

Click here to read about an example of my success.