Amazing Secrets Of A Black Belt Traffic Generation ExpertCopyright 2009 by Willie CrawfordAs an Internet marketer, one of the toughest decisions you'll have to make is what products to market and where toposition yourself in the marketplace. Market something thatis not really wanted, or painfully needed, and you've stacked the deck against yourself.As a 13-year Internet marketing veteran, I have largelysettled into the traffic generation and search engine optimization fields. Everyone with a website needs both,and they're all painfully aware of that fact.This is a good field for you to enter if you really take thetime to learn how to get a webpage to rank highly for buyingkeywords, and how to generate lots of traffic. Neither arereally THAT difficult, as you'll soon see.If you plan on selling your services in this niche, you needto master the basics, and it helps to be able to show potentialclients how good you are. I personally just show clients howI rank for some of my own website projects. I do that fortwo reasons:1) I want to show them that I don't really need to work asan SEO consultant since I could earn a full-time living justmarketing my own products. Not coming from a position ofneediness allows me to charge higher prices.2) I want to show them that I understand the entire salesprocess, and know what it takes to bring in BUYINGcustomers.Here are a few examples that I might show a typicalclient (all of the examples are the terms without thequotes):One of my companies sells automated article, video, pressrelease and podcast submission services. So I show potential clients that for the term "automated video submission site" I rank number 2 out of 1,020,000 on Google, and for the term "automated video submission software" I rank number 1 out of 192,000 on Google."I show them that for the term "#1 google listing" I rank numbers5 and 6 out of 109,000,000 on Google. For "get a # 1 google listing" I have the number 3 position on Google.Since many potential clients know that I've worked as a joint venture broker, I show them that for the term "joint venture expert" I have at least 5 out of the top 10 positions on Google,out of 2,870,000 returns.Since I've written a soul food cookbook, I show them that forthe term "soul food recipes" I have the number 2 positionout of 2,510,000 results. For the term "soul food cookbook" Ihave the number 2 position out of 58,900,000 returns.I show potential clients dozens of similar results, providingthem with irrefutable proof that I understand SEO. I alsoshow them some of my website traffic statistics to prove tothem that I target BUYING" keywords.By now you have to be wondering how I accomplish this. Theanswer is simply by generating lots of relevant content, and having lots of external links pointing to my sites.Really simple isn't it?The content is typically articles, press releases, podcasts(audios), and videos. This content is both on my sites andon other sites. For my cooking related sites, the contentis typically recipes, but with webpages optimized to helpthe search engines know what a specific page is about.Briefly, in optimizing a webpage, I make sure that mymost important keywords are use in my titles, descriptionmetatags, and in strategic places throughout the page.In my opinion, the reason that my pages rank so highly though is because others page (on other websites across the Internet) tell the search engines that my pagesare about specific terms. I accomplish this by gettingtons of hyperlinks from other sites, where the anchor textcontains my long-tail keywords.I get those links by posting my content on those othersites. My articles, videos, press releases, and audios areon high pagerank sites, and there are links in or near thiscontent pointing back to my sites.Those links amount to those other sites pointing to my siteand telling the search engines that my site is about thosekeywords. Those links from "authority sites" are likehaving well-respected people give you an endorsement!Just as importantly, those hyperlink "recommend" my sitesto visitors on those other sites. They tell those visitors to go to my site for more similar content, and those visitors come in droves!In case you're wondering how I spread so much contentacross so many sites, my answer is automation. Insteadof visiting hundreds of sites and hand posting this content, I upload it to software (or more specificallyservers on other sites) and automate the distributionprocess. Using software, I can do in 10 minutes what itwould literally take me days to do manually.When I tell you what I do, and how I do it, it soundsreally simple doesn't it? It is! However, there is another key. In many niches, when going after certain keywords, you need to publish a LOT of content, and you need a LOT of links pointing to you. That's why the software is so critical. Without automation I wouldn't be able to accomplish 1/10th as much. I wouldn't be able to generate the necessary mass.I know, now you're probably thinking that my trafficgeneration secrets aren't so amazing. Actually, they'renot, but they are very effective. That is, they are veryeffective if you acknowledge one other important caveat.That caveat is simply that you have to use this knowledge. You have to actually generate the content and then distribute it around the Internet. Now that you know my secret, you need to take advantageof it. Don't you dare think that it won't do much good"because your competitors will also know the secret." Here's another not so secret "secret"... most people evenwhen they know exactly what to do, and even see proof thatit works, will do absolutely nothing. That's the beautyof it all. To pull ahead of your competitors, you only need to do it!------------------Willie Crawford is a 13-year Internet marketing veteranspecializing in search engine optimization and websitetraffic generation. He leverages automation to achieve phenomenal results for his own and his clients' sites. His favorite tool is http://EasyPushButtonTraffic.com