The most profound observation that we all made was that most on-line newbies set their goals too low. This is often because of limitations in what they can convince themselves is possible. You see, until you have seen something done, you often view many things as impossible. After you see many people doing them, your concept of what is possible shifts radically.

Consider person barely able to make their monthly rent payment. To them earning $50,000 a year may seem like a big dream. However, person making $50,000 sets his goal on $100,000 although it may appear to be a big challenge to him. It magically seems more possible if that individual know anyone actually earning $100,000 a year. The person earning $100,000 a year, can see possibilities of earning $200,000 a year, and one earning this amount can imagine half a million.

As I sat in that room, chatting with someone who had made and lost many more millions than I could imagine, my personal perspective shifted dramatically. Just being exposed to someone who told me/showed me how it could be done convinced me that it was possible. It convinced me that I could do it... and I set out making it a reality :-)

At other times during this weekend I engaged in other brainstorming sessions on how to build mailing lists in excess of one million, how to get millions of visitors to your site, and how to market high-end products. Nobody in group doubted that these things could be done since we knew people who had done them. So our focus became how do *we* accomplish this.

(c) Tony Newton - All Right reserved

Ahhh! The age old question, how can I increase traffic to my website, without paying for advertising?

Well, sad fact is, they simply won't just turn up to your website, without you doing something to get them there!

So, here are 5 free ways to increase your traffic:

1. Search Engines.

This has to be number one but it is getting increasingly difficult to get a good position in top 10 search engines. So, how do you gain a good position? Well first of all, whatever you do, for goodness sake don't use a free submission service that will automatically submit your site to top 1000+ search engines. Don't expect to get a good position (if any). Just focus on top ten search engines. Primarily, they look for:

- Link Popularity. This is number of sites that have a link to your site. You can increase this by contacting other related websites and ask them to link to your site.

- Keywords. Your keywords are placed in tags of your web pages. When someone types a word into a search engine, your keywords are what search engine looks for to see if your site is relevant to search. Have a look at your competitors keywords, don't copy them but brainstorm a little and try to think of other words or phrases people might be looking for, that are relevant to your site. A good site to look for popular keywords searches is: http://www.wordtracker.com

- Keyword Rich Pages. These are pages which provide good content and in which a particular keyword is repeated a number of times. So that page gets a top ranking for that keyword.