Introduction.

Welcome to Week 2!

Last week, we learned that there are two important ingredients to boosting your site's popularity:

1. Inbound links from other websites; and
2. Traffic.

The more inbound links, the higher your Google Page Rank will become.  The more traffic, the higher your Alexa traffic ranking will become (a lower numer, such as 10,000, is a higher traffic ranking with Alexa than a higher number like 150,000).  Over the next few weeks, we'll be creating a lot of inbound links and traffic.  Don't give up -- it will pay off!

If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else. Yogi Berra

Stumbling Blocks to Internet Success.

• One of the biggest stumbling blocks that I've seen for new site owners is that they want to do everything at once in order to become an overnight success and don't have a game plan.  When that's the case, they get overwhelmed and accomplish nothing. 
• Another pitfall seems to be that they want to figure everything out so that they do something 100% perfect before taking action and end up doing nothing.  This is called "analysis paralysis" and tends to be extremely self-defeating.

Leaping Over the Stumbling Blocks.

What we'll be doing here is following a step-by-step plan by following the "basics" and taking small actions.  By the time we're done, you'll have accomplished a lot!  Just follow the steps instead of trying to figure them out ... you'll catch on, guaranteed!

This week, we're going to be concentrating on getting inbound links from blogs and directories.  The traffic component will involve adding a blog to your web site.  At the end of the week, you will have a minimum of 12 inbound links.

Okay, I'm ready.  Take me to Day 1.