Take Me from POINT A to POINT B!!!

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Thanks to all I have learned on this forum I have ...

~ websites including two in an evergreen, ever desired hot niche that I am focusing most of my attention on (one is a review site the other a content rich site, both are in the same niche)
~have great affiliate products I believe in
~ blog post on these sites on a consistent basis
~ have an auto responder in place with 12 weeks of emails

Now I am really ready to drive traffic and would like an action plan. I would appreciate guidelines to follow and prefer to keep the focus on MY sites and drive traffic to them.

so far I

~built two squidoo lenses on my topic (they just got unlocked)
~submit small US Free Ads on my niche on a regular basis using the less competitive terms
~submit to two article directories ezines and go articles on a regular basis
~book mark my articles

Now should I ramp up my writing for the directories or focus on link building..... ? And what would be some high, specific goals to aim for?
What about directories are they still in play?

Thanks so much!
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  • Profile picture of the author Jeremy Kelsall
    Bookmarking doesn't really work for articles anymore...Most of the main bookmarking sites see the article directories as spam.

    If you want to build links to them, try some blog commenting or even mass article submission linking back to the articles in question
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  • Profile picture of the author guillopuyol
    Something you may consider is press releases. The great thing about them is that they automatically carry an air of "authority" that makes them very effective.

    If you do proper keyword research and you find high traffic keywords in your niche, they can really boost your traffic and eventually if you submit them constantly, you may start ranking for those keywords.

    Good luck,

    -G
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  • As to your questions "Should I focus on writing or building backlinks", do both. Here's how.

    Write your articles, but dont go nuts. Just write 5 or so. Go ahead and submit them to EZA or GoArticles. Then start building backlinks to these articles. The reason being, these articles on article directories will outrank the articles on your website. You are just helping to push those articles higher up in google. Use the article dirs. to their fullest.

    Next, go ahead and put those articles on your blog. Again, build backlinks to your blog. Dont neglect your site and focus all your attention to the article dirs.

    To build links to your articles in EZA, submit your "author feed" to feedburner and FeedAGG. Social bookmark your articles to sites that allow EZA submissions. (Not all of them do ;() Also, go ahead and get Angela's backlink packet. Use those sites to help you build some GREAT backlinks.
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