There are also quite a few places on net where you can find articles that are free to reprint on your site. A few of them are http://www.EzineArticles.com, http://www.Content-Articles.com, and http://www.ArticlesFactory.com. As I said, there are many sites like these, but these are 3 best, in my opinion. Some article directories are focused on a single set of topics (like Business Marketing) and others, including three mentioned above, contain articles from many, many categories.

If you write your own articles, submitting them to as many article sites as possible, again including three I listed before. The more places you submit your article, more sites will pick it up – either through RSS (Really Simple Syndication) or by cutting and pasting your article to their site. The latter option is preferable to you, because your article will stay on their site longer. This will work hard to generate you more traffic from visitors to those sites who read your article and increase your SE rankings through backlinks. (For more information, check out an article I wrote about backlinks at http://www.Content-Articles.com/article.aspx?i=24)

How often should I add new content?

Add new content at least weekly, and absolutely no less than monthly to give your customers reason to come back, and Search Engines will also increase your ranking because your site is active and you’ve got good content.

What about forums?

Forums can be great tools for site promotion, if you do it right. Do NOT post ads to a forum that isn’t for posting ads. You will do more to destroy your credibility than generate traffic. Put a link to your site in your signature, and post questions and answers to site, just like everyone else. If a topic that your site contains information about comes up, feel free to post URL in body of topic (make sure this is allowed by forum rules first) but always mention that it’s your site, so nobody is mislead and thinks post is a referral, which it’s not (because it’s your site).

These tips are just a few of things that you can do to increase your search engine rankings. Take your time and develop a good site, write quality articles, submit them to as many places as possible, and watch your ranking go up while visitors come in.

First of all, whatever you do, don't use Thank You page that your autoresponder company so kindly provides for you. Why do you think they provide this? Certainly, it is a service to their customers. Normally it gives a polite (if generic) thank you and contains a few reassurances about spam along with brief details of opt-out procedure. However, when you look at it closely, it is a full page advert for autoresponder provider isn't it? A full page advert which you have provided for them.

As an absolute minimum, if you can't be bothered to spend a few minutes to generate your own custom Thank you page, redirect your new signup to one of other pages on your website, or to home page of one of your other sites if you have more than one. However, it's much better to take time and produce your own full page advert. Some of items you might want to consider including are listed below:

1. A polite thank you (mandatory). 2. A brief statement that you only send emails with permission, that they may unsubscribe at any time and that you will never pass their contact details to a third party (also mandatory). 3. A link to another website that you own or promote. 4. An advert for another opportunity that you are involved in. 5. A "Tell A Friend" form or link. 6. Adverts from Google Adsense or some other source.

Items 1 & 2 are only common courtesy. Items 3 - 6 could give your performance a real boost. Remember, this is a page that your viewer will automatically click away from. They are "ready-to-click" so at least give them option of making a click that will benefit you rather than just clicking on their "favourites" or home page buttons. Not all of them will click - but some of them will and you need every advantage you can get!