"Driving" Traffic To Your Website

[Scotty]

People on the Internet are explorers! They want to go here, they want
to go there. They want to check out everything! New internet
explorers soon find ways to do this. They discover search engines.
They find pages that are members of web rings. They continue to
explore the subjects that interest them, and they look for other
things that might be interesting.

If you're like I am, then you're still on a learning trip when it
comes to driving traffic to your website. I'm to the point where I
think about this all the time. Traffic, numbers of people visiting
your website, is crucial to getting all those neat things on your
website seen, getting your unique and important ideas across, doing
whatever it is you want to do with that beautiful, awesome website of
yours!

Here's how I like to picture it... A website is like a star. And like
a star there are many "planets" in orbit around it. One planet might
be a particular political or religious viewpoint you express on your
website. Another planet would be the neat and professional
advertisements you use to help promote your website. All these
planets orbiting your star website. To you, it's right there in front
of you everyday. To everyone else, it's "out there somewhere".

So it's your job (nobody's going to do it for you) to drive traffic to
your website. You might close your eyes and see this as an ultra-
modern kind of "wagon train". There you are out in space. You've
headed out to find some people who are interested in the same stuff
you are (or people whom you might be able to spark their interest).
Your space tour bus is loaded with these people, and there are others
in their own ships behind you, following you to your "star".

And when you get there, when you and your space train arrive at your
star... SUCCESS! If you keep visualizing this, either in the way I've
just shown you, or in another way that you create for yourself, if you
keep picturing your bringing more and more traffic to your website
this way, it will help you stay READY for any opportunities you find
to drive traffic to your star website!

As I learn more and more about the internet, I find that the only
thing you can count on is that the internet is still in a remarkable
state of CHANGE. It's still "morphing" almost daily, and this can be
exciting or forboding. It all depends upon your personal state of
mind. So keep on visualizing and looking for ways to show off your
star website. And you will be successful!

Persistence, tenacity, perseverence (if you do these things, some will
call you "stubborn"--don't let that stop you), just "keep in there
pitching" and never, ever give up!