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If you are a website builder you will always be getting asked “How do I get traffic” and while that is not really your job your customers seem to think you must know the answer. Rarely do they realise that it is a specialist job in itself requiring as much knowledge and skill if not more than in designing web pages. Never-the-less they still expect you to be able to advise them.

Traffic

You can of course refer them to some of the better services such as: Market Samurai which is an excellent tool for keyword research and checking out the competition. There are also the automated article submitters but you need to be very careful with these because Google will spot duplicates and rate them all as only one article. Yes there are the article “spinners” and some black hat ideas that translate the article into another language and back again to make it look different because of the slight variations in transition from one language to the other. But it is still the same article with no more content than the original and it won’t be long before Google works that out also.

Social

Then you have the social bookmark submitters but as they get more and more automated there is the danger of no one taking any notice of the posts as they become not relevant to the sites. Of course Google has many very helpful free services now such as Google Adwords Keyword tools, Google Analytics, Google Webmaster tool, Google Trend, Google Small Business Keyword Tools and feed burner. Some customers will want you to do these for them too which can help with the bottom line as long as your customer is getting results.

Articles

Articles are still working very well especially if done through top sites like this one but they also take time and work to be really effective. It is getting harder and harder to get traffic at an affordable ROI (Return on Investment).

New Free Tool

You might find that recommending this new free tool to your clients will keep them happy, maybe even save you some work or even get you some work depending on how you want to play it. It is a tool that does not use SEO, PPC or Affiliate Marketing and gets very fast response. In fact its method is quite novel and because of its newness has not yet been beaten to death by all the Internet Marketers.