Big companies can give to spend a fortune in online advertizing to market their products and services. How can you possibly compete with them when you’re the sole owner of your business and can’t afford to invest in paid advertising for web site promotion?
The best way to compete with big companies is to build a site around a micro niche then promote it using free traffic generating strategies. Let me explain what I mean with an example.
If the big company sells shoes, target a smaller niche such as “mens running …

The dofollow plugin for WordPress lets you remove the evil nofollow attribute from your comments. Because nofollow will not work.
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Backlinks are very important to building your site and online web presence. If you want to sell something, build readership of your blog or just move your up in page rank you’ll need to use backlinks. This articles will demystify the use of backlinks for the average user and explain good ways to use and get them.
What are backlinks? A backlink is just terminology to say that a link is coming from somewhere on the net to your website. You can think of it as a business card of sorts. …

StumbleUpon is a great bookmarking site that will help you to drive free traffic to your site, or just to browse the web. If you’ve a commercial website you can become a StumbleUpon advertizer and drive traffic at super low costs.
If you’re using this website just to browse the web, then you’ll want to download the free toolbar which unfortunately is compatible with Internet Explorer and Firefox only. If you do not have these browsers, then you can simply use the virtual toolbar which shows up during your stumbling session.
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