The aforementioned article was also bestowed title of, "Worst SEO Article Ever" by someone on forum.

Why all animus? I have no idea. Perhaps they view me as a threat to their livelihood. Whatever reason, certain SEO's seem to be taking my articles personally. That's their problem!

My articles are not aimed directly at SEO's or search engines per se. My articles are aimed at people who utilize their services.

I'm trying to get these people to realize, they can't depend solely on search engines and search engine optimization. You have to have a multi-pronged attack.

I don't depend on search engines! I never have. I refuse to play that game. My traffic comes from dozens of articles I've written that have been picked up and published on popular web sites all over Internet. I also get traffic via word of mouth, newsletters and ezines that my articles are published in, and a few other secret methods that I use.

And you can do same thing. You just have to get out of that search engine mindset.

There are many other proven and effective ways to market your web site. Here are just a few: e-zines, newsletters, forums, online magazines, sponsor listings on other web sites, exchanging links.

Here are a few offline options: magazines, direct mail, shopper newspapers, cable television, radio, flyers, hospital newsletters, card decks, trade journals and directories, bulletin boards, tabloid newspapers.

Yes, I know Google and Yahoo! are biggest, most powerful search engine and directory on planet! Forget about them! Why? Because despite what certain corrupt SEO's may claim, they CANNOT guarantee you a top ten listing in either Google or Yahoo!

Someone, somewhere was driving down road one day watching billboards going by and had brilliant idea of bringing them to net and first banner ad was born. Of course, it may not have happened that way and heyday of banner ads are over, but there was a time when they were best thing going and websites could make bank just by selling space on their homepage. Some still do. But all things must come to an end and this is why you should always be on lookout for offline marketing techniques that are just waiting to be converted.