I have 'Googlebot' crawl my site every day like a dispossessed spirit that can't leave.

It was not always like this, I would go for a month or more before he came to my site and then would only crawl a few pages and leave again.

This has been going on now for two months or more, I've been watching stats on my server everyday seeing just where he goes. He will crawl a few pages one day, and next some other pages, and then finally leave until morrow. After just three or four weeks, I noticed I got an infestation of lesser bots calling as well, some I have never heard of before, they seem to follow 'Googlebot' as though he is Pied Piper of Hamelin.

What caused this infestation of bots?

Well, I got interested in rss feeds, I thought "What a good tool for drawing traffic to my site."

So I studied up on rss feeds until I understood what was involved. Now I am no 'techie', and most programming I do is html in 'Notepad', making my own web pages.

Rss feeds use a similar language called xml, so it was easy to understand for me, and I was able to quickly make up an rss feed page in 'Notepad', placed it on my server, downloaded a 'feed reader' software, opened it up, placed address of my feed in 'feed reader', and up came my rss feed in reader. It was so easy I wrote an ebook to tell everyone how to do it, it's called "Really Simple RSS".

There are many rss directories and syndication services that I submitted address of my rss feed to, so other people can look at feed in their 'feed reader' and see what articles I am posting.

Some of 'subscribers' to feed actually come and visit my site to see what it's all about, which happened almost straight away after I submitted my feed.

In less than 36 hours, 'Googlebot' found my feed!

I got headline from a public domain book I have just compiled into a pdf file and placed on my server for free download and it was written by P.T. Barnum famous American showman entitled "The Art Of Money Getting". In it he details how he once walked down street past some shops and noticed a large sign hanging from awning and it simply said in very large letters: "Don't Read The Other Side!" He noticed there was a group of people on other side of sign looking up and reading 'The Other Side'!

What do you have to do to get noticed in business? If you run a web business, how do you get noticed by potential customers and, importantly, search engine robots?

You've probably tried advertising, and link exchanges, and even writing articles. Even chatting on forums to make out you're an 'expert' in your field.

It still is not enough is it?

You really need to network yourself all over web to get traffic to your site.

Let me explain. Search engine's seem to be giving less credence to link exchanges, therefore it does not seem to be way to go for future.

Why not instead swap articles with each other, it gives more 'content' than a link any day?

What you can do is place all articles you receive on a separate page, thereby building more 'content' and at same time, other web site owners are placing your articles on their site.

Subject of articles must be 'relevant' to theme of each others sites, for example, if you sell paperback books, you want sites very similar to your own to publish your article, and you do same for them.

Start with link exchange partners to exchange articles with, and network from there. I am sure they will agree that it is an improvement on just link swapping.