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Secret of success in internet marketing depends on learning how to generate a lot of traffic to your website. Without traffic, you wont make any money in internet marketing.

Many people fail to understand this basic stuff. Traffic is the lifeblood of internet marketing. There are many ways to get traffic to your site.

Many will tell you to start PPC. In PPC, you pay for getting targeted traffic from the search engines. But over the years, keywords on PPC have become very expensive. One simple click can cost you $1 or more for a particular keyword. You cant compete against the big players with deep pockets involved in PPC.

If you pay for traffic and in the end does not recover even your cost of advertising, you are headed towards failure. You need a system that can generate targeted traffic for your site for free. Only search engines can provide that much traffic to your site.

So you will have to learn search engine optimization (SEO). So again you will be competing with big players.

There is an entry barrier for newbies in internet marketing. Nobody will tell you this fact that it is almost impossible to get your new site ranked high in the search engines especially on Google. Google takes the age of a site into account before giving it importance.

Google does not like a few page sites. Google like authority sites! Your website should have many many optimized pages and thousands and thousands of backlinks before Google will position it on its search pages.

Again stuck! Dont know what to do? Cant compete with big players who have years of experience doing this! How about using these same authority sites to get traffic for your site?

How? I give you an example, EzineArticles is considered to be an authority site by Google. Submit good articles on it. You will get targeted traffic to your site as well as quality backlinks that counts with Google.

There are many article directories, forums, blogs, social bookmarking sites that can give you lot of traffic and quality backlinks. Use them to generate traffic for your site.

As long as you dont learn how to generate free traffic to yours site, you wont succeed at internet marketing.