Research your competitors and use their tricks

Creating your own website and finding a way to get visitors takes a lot of research. Whether you want to find traffic through search engines or ads, you'll have to do a lot of reading.

You will find that much of this research involves determining who your biggest competitors are and analyzing how they market themselves. It is said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and on the Internet this is certainly true!

One of the oldest tricks in the book is to find websites that link to your competitors and see if they give you a backlink. This backlink can be through a directory, guest posting on a blog or a dozen other ways. The old fashioned way to do this was to use clever Google search operators.