There are many ways to get traffic. Some cost money, some don't. Some are predictable, some aren't. Indeed, you should combine all traffic generation methods available. But if you really want to get that traffic fast, in massive flow, on a predictable date, best way to do that is through ezine (email newsletter) advertising. Ezine ads allow you to describe yourself more than a banner. They also reach all ezines' subscribers on one day. For example, if you bought 150,000 banner impressions on a site, that could take a month to run. But if you put your ad on a newsletter with a subscription of 150,000 people, they will all see your ad in one day when newsletter is sent. So you get a faster result than banners. Depending on product, it isn't unheard of for advertisers to make a return on their ad investment of several hundred-percentage points on same day ad runs. That is fast, and you can keep rolling money back in to buy more ads and expand your profits.

Also, because newsletters are topic-specific, you can target your ad very well. Best of all, click-through rates for ezine ads are very high and ad rates are lower than banner ad rates. If you have a look at http://www.emarketer.com/ereports/email_marketing/welcome.html, you will notice that email ads beat banner ads by as much as 15 times.

All you now need is to find a place where you can buy ezine ad space. The best place to do that is at http://www.pennmedia.com/. PennMedia represents 1000 ezines with a total subscription base of 51 million readers. They are all categorized and you can easily target your ad.

As you know (if you have kept up with these issues) I have been posting on free for all links, then immediately submitting these post to search engines. What I have found is search engines are showing more and more links to my URL. Personally I prefer Free Links Finder to do posting on FFA's:

http://www.data-village.com/freelinkhelp.htm

I have been wondering about how I might post to classified ads with such speed. I looked at Classified 98, The Classified Connection and others. They cost some bucks when you don't have them to spend.

So in mean time, I have been working on my own program to submit to classified ads. The program I'm working on has a few bugs in it that I need to work out before I start letting public use it.

In course of using this program, I have inadvertently posted to guestbooks, classified, and FFA pages. In case of guestbooks, I have been accused of spamming.

Well, as you can see, I can't let program out till I fix this problem. But what if I were to post my URL to guestbooks in a way that does not look like spamming?

What would happen is that my post would stay on that page for a long time, unless it looks like an advertisement. Then you get a nasty note, taken off their guestbook, and banned from their web site if not worse.

I started changing text in my posting. This is what I found has worked best, but play with it if you wish, and decide to post on guestbooks.

1. Always use your name. If you use a company name, they thinks its spam and you get nasty notes.

2. If you use a well known autoresponder for a return email address, you will be accused of spamming. I used my own autoresponder.