Thanks!
ewhitaker,
I’ve know of trafficswarm and places like this for years & know that they are haunts for MLM marketers. imo these days more than ever you really have to be careful who you align your sites with as they may affect your SE rankings.
MLM has a history of spam and also for using programs like trafficswarm for instance. As I said maybe Trafficswarm have cleaned up their act, but I’d be careful all the same.
I realise that gaining traffic means you can hopefully make some dollars, in which can then be re-invested back into your site/s. It’s a catch 22 when funds are limited.
I honestly believe though in the case of gaining a successful portal in this industry you have to put the horse before the cart. That is, aim to get a site out of google’s sand box for starters.
If you don’t have the funds to pay for SE listing and quick submissions add your site to as many free secondaries as you can. If your search really hard you can find some PPC that will give you a $10 – $25 free credit to start you out (this btw is void of a deposit).
I’d also seriously consider registering your domain/s for longer than 12 months too. I’ve heard that becuase spammers register domains for only 12 months the likely hood of google sandboxing your domain for an extended time because it’s only registered for 12 months is a possibility too.
At a min buy 2 years.
Apart from that try to get some good recip links going. I know it’s hard without a PR, but it is possible.
Cheers