5. Get involved in forums. This is a very effective way to get hits to your site and become known as an expert in your field. Be sure to read other posts and rules before you post. For a complete list of forums to post to get eBook Ideas listed below.

6. Start your own eZine or Newsletter and promote it on every page of your site and at eZine Directories. You can get a complete list of eZine directories and more in my free eBook - eBook Ideas here: http://www.ipromoteit.com

7. Start your own affiliate program and get other people to sell for you. Clickbank offers a simple way to start-up. Go here for more information. http://hop.clickbank.net/penny

8. Place ads in Yahoo! Get this Free eBook with tips on how to get 200-400 hits a week using Yahoo! Ads. http://www.1001beautytips.com/superebooks/YSR.exe

9. Give a gift for filling out your survey and announce it everywhere. This will also help you to find out what customers want and where they are coming from.

10. Start Joint Ventures with other web site owners.

i.e., Offer to trade a free ad in your eZine for your ad in theirs.

Trade links from your eBook to theirs.

Give them a testimonial about their product for a testimonial about yours. The possibilities are endless.

©2002 Tracie Johansen

Google is most prominent of big boys to use this method, and it has brought me a lot of visitors to my hobby site. Hobby site? you may ask. Well you may be interested to read that I am also webmaster of www.irishboxingnews.com and have been for 2+ years.

The last time I checked on Altavista I had 169 sites linking to Irish Boxing News.com, and I am ranked number 3 on Google for search term 'boxing news' . I get about 25 - 40 visitors a day from Google for this search term alone.

Before Google introduced number of links to a site as a relevancy factor I wasn't even in top 20, now however because I have so many quality sites linking to Irish Boxing News.com googlebot feels I deserve position 3.

More search engines are likely to come around to this method of ranking as Google has shown with its tremendous growth that its a very effective method of establishing relevancy.

So hopefully you can see why reciprocal linking is so important to any 'serious' webmasters. My Irish Boxing News.com site gets about 150 visitors a day, not bad for a site without a budget plus it's a niche information site, and doesn't have broad appeal, anyway most of them come from search engines but about 50-60 come from links on other sites. Just Multiply them numbers by 4 or 5 for a site with mass appeal like an Internet Marketing site and you can really start to see power of developing links with other sites. BOTTOM LINE - GET LINKING NOW