When you publish your first blog or website, it can be pretty exciting.
You can tell your friends, and family and they can look you up on the Internet, and see what you've published.
Or if you've got some great ideas, it can be exciting to finally be able to share them with others.
At least until you check your logs, and find that you're getting about four unique visitors per day.
When you get your site up and published, you've only covered the first step.
Next thing you've got to do is put in the grunt work of promoting your site.
There are plenty of ways to do this, both paid and free.
In this article, you'll learn a few of the basic ways, so you can get the word out about your wonderful site.
The first way is through article marketing, just like on this site.
You write an article relating to your topic, and the article sites, like this one, will let you put a link back to your site in the bottom.
People will come to sites like this, read articles like yours, and then be interested to read more.
They'll click the link on the bottom, and you've got a new visitor.
The more articles you write, and the more article sites you submit your article to, the more visitors you'll get.
If you write three or four articles a week, that can turn into some substantial traffic over time.
Another way is to use social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace.
There are plenty of others, and they all operate the same way.
You join, create a page with some interesting content related to your site, and then start networking.
Join groups, create groups, and make friends.
After a while, you'll have a pretty large group of friends to suggest your site to, and this can result in an enormous amount of traffic.
Another great source of to get visitors is Twitter.
You can generate quite a number of followers over time, even if you are just starting out.
Simply look for and follow people that are interested in the same things you are, and they will tend to follow you back.
Before you know it, you'll have plenty of followers that you can promote your site to.
If you want to get visitors in a hurry, you can pay for them.
Sign up for an account with Google AdWords, and create some ads.
Whenever somebody clicks on an ad and visits your site, you have to pay for that visitor.
Clicks can cost between a few sense, and close to a hundred dollars a visitor, so be careful.
If you aren't complete sure that your visitors will turn into income, then I would recommend staying away from Google AdWords until you are more sure of your conversion rate.
Of course, this is just the beginning of how you can get plenty of traffic to your site.
The more you start doing this, the more creative you'll get and think of plenty of other ways to get traffic.
The important thing is to get started doing something, and be consistent, and persistent.