Having your own blog is one of THE best ways to grow your Internet business due to the variety of methods you can use it, including…

• Building community
• Distributing presell content
• Growing your list
• Mobilizing your affiliates
• Monetizing the design elements
• Establishing a brand
• Creating loyalty and credibility

The list could go on and on.

If you have a blog, then one of your biggest obstacles to using it effectively is promoting the blog, i.e., generating traffic.

[If you don't have a blog, then it's past due ... it should immediately leap to the top of your "to do" list.]

Jimmy D. Brown just released a new 23-page report that you can download below at no charge.  It's entitled, "30 Minutes Per Day Blog P.R.O.M.O." and in it you'll learn how to drive traffic to your blog in about half an hour per day.

The report reveals a different daily strategy to implement for each of the five workdays.

You can download it immediately at…

http://affiliates.muscle-build.com/go/blog-promo/

There are no lists to join.  No hoops to jump thru.  Visit the site and click on the download link. End of story.

However, this free offer will permanently "retire" on Friday, April 9 at 10PM CDT.  At that time it will be removed from the Internet and will no longer be available for download.

In Backlink System Part 1, we talked about how I systematically get backlinks for my sites from day 1. I mentioned in that post a "super strategy" that I employ that was inspired by a product I bought, and that I highly recommend, called Backlink Flood.

I'm going to tell you, in a nutshell, how that system works. I cannot give you all of the details, but I can certainly give you the 30,000 foot view.

The basic premise is that you get a lot of links and they're all inter-related. You also use RSS feeds from those links and get links to them.

Here is the overview:

1. Create an article or post on your site.
2. Create another article or post on a blogging platform like Blogger or WordPress (the free kind) with a link embedded to the post in #1.
3. Create another article or post on a different platform with 2 links – one to #1 and one to #2.
4. Keep on creating articles with links embedded to #1 and the article you just created.
5. Complete the loop by creating an article or post in one last platform with 2 links – one to the original and another back to #2.

I suggest you do this with 8-10 articles. I know, sounds like a lot of work. But the crux is the backlinks, not the length of the articles, if you catch my drift. The purpose is not to generate traffic but to get the backlink.

This technique is known as a linkwheel.

Then, after that is done, you submit all those articles to social networking sites like twitter, Facebook, digg, StumbleUpon, DropJack, and Diigolet (to name a few).

The "super bonus" follow up technique is to then take the RSS feeds from all of these sites and submit them to the RSS directories. More on that later.

If you're not a "techie" and have no idea what HTML, PHP, or SQL is, you'll want to take a long, hard look at Site Build It.

It is truly a "complete" online business builder, offering not only site building and hosting, but domain name registration, the best brainstorming and niche-finding tools, as well as a comprehensive guide to building your online business.

It does NOT promise overnight riches; though, judging by the testimonials, there are quite a few folks earning a living with the sites they've built with SBI. In fact, I use it for Muscle-Build.com.

I will admit that I don't use it for most of my other sites, like Hardgainer Manifesto and The Muscle-Build.com Blog. It is pricey; however, for building your very first web site, it is the perfect companion. If you just follow the Action Guide, you will lay a solid foundation on which to build the rest of your online business.

Additionally, SBI covers blogging, building traffic, monetizing your site, sitemaps, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), among many other useful and overwhelming tasks. Give it a look. You will be blown away by all it has to offer. I simply cannot tell you everything it does; it's just too much to list. And it's been invaluable in giving me a start on the muscle-building niche.

By the way, I do nearly nothing, other than tweeting the occasional page, for Muscle-Build.com – and I'm getting over 15, 000 visits a month. So somehow it magically builds traffic, too.

Site Build It

Dosh Dosh has a great post about 6 Fool-Proof Steps to Make More Money With Your Website. It's well worth taking your time to read it. Here are the 4 desired outcomes of taking these 6 steps:

1. Monetize. Get more (or some!) revenue out of each post.
2. Capture Leads. Encourage a visitor to subscribe to your mailing list.
3. Improve Relevance. Provide an improved user experience for all.
4. Make it Rank Better.  Doing on-site and off-site optimization will help specific money pages to rank better on the search engine result pages.

Each is a great reason for optimizing your most popular pages. Give it a read and try to implement the suggestions. They're worth doing.

Whenever I start a new website or blog, I follow the system I'm about to describe below to get a good influx of backlinks from Day 1.

If you have a WordPress-based blog, I suggest that you modify your ping list to something more robust than the measly default list WP gives you. I'll share my ping list with you in another post. Keep your eyes peeled for that.

I also encourage you to install the Ping Optimizer plugin. It will keep you from pinging too much, which can get you banned from various sites.

If you're familiar with weight training, you've probably heard of the "5×5" system. It's a weight training system where you do 5 sets of 5 reps for each exercise. There are various ways to implement it, but the goal is the same – improved strength and size.

I do something very similar with building backlinks. I try to get 5 links from 5 different methods, every single day until I feel comfortable with the results. It all kind of depends on the niche, my competition, and how willing I am to keep at it day after day (I'm being honest here – I didn't get into this business to work harder than I did in the "real world").

1. I go to 5 blogs and make 5 on-topic comments. I only make comments on blogs where my name serves as a hyperlink. If the commenting system allows you to input your website address ( URL), then your name will serve as a hyperlink to your site. I try to get a mix of on-topic and off-topic backlinks.
2. I submit my site to 5 directories. Here's a good list – Directory Maximizer
3. I use Angela's Backlinks and get 5 links. I've found this service to be invaluable. Angela finds about 30 high PageRank website and shows you how to get a backlink from each (hint: to make things way less cumbersome, use RoboForm).
4. I submit my site (could be the root-level domain or a particular page/post) to 5 social media sites (examples include twitter, Facebook, digg, Reddit, and Dropjack).
5. I create 5 articles and post them to a popular article directory. There is conflicting advice on this one on the 'net. Some say to use original content; others say it's okay to use your existing content (content already published on your site). I have seen no evidence of the latter being detrimental. However, what I do is I submit the original article to an article directory (Searchwarp.com is my favorite because they approve quickly and your article gets indexed very fast) and then repost that article on my site. After all, that is one of the dual purposes of article directories – the idea is that others are free to use your content on their sites with attribution to you, giving you a backlink in the process.

That's it. There is one super strategy that I'll partially share with you in a subsequent post. I say partially because it's not originally my idea and I paid to get full access to it – I suggest you do the same. Hint: It's called Backlink Flood if you want to get a jumpstart – it's the easiest free method for getting a ton of backlinks.