Building up a large amount of links to your site is a hard task. It takes hours of work searching for sites, seeing if they are worth linking to, adding their link, emailing them, waiting for their reply, removing their link if they refuse… that process repeated 100X can get quite tiresome and old. You can easily find yourself putting in hundreds of hours of work, and it’s not even a sure thing!

Search engine optimization takes time as well. You have to study how to do SEO, tweak your design, sprinkle in keywords throughout your pages… and even then, it’s still not a sure thing. A lot of people say SEO is overrated… that its all hype… and they might be telling the truth. After all, it’s not exactly scientifically proven.

So…how on Earth do you get a good, steady flow of traffic to your website? The answer might be simpler than you think: Make a good site with good content.

Building backlinks is easy if you have content worth linking to. Other webmasters will always link to sites they think are worth their visitors attention. Even if your website is new without Google PR or a lot of traffic, you will still get links. So, repeat this “process” of creating good content and eventually you will see your traffic build up… with absolutely no effort put into trading links or SEO.