Alexa rank is definitely a measure of amount of traffic you get for your site. Of course,it's not a reliable one to measure but this rank can help in your business and earnings a lot, get more income from textlinkads etc.
- Sign up many webmaster forums and keeping your site in your signature gives many unique visitors to your site.Be active in these forums.
- Try to have unique content always which will keep your users with your web page always though they have read once…QUALITY DECIDES A LOT…
- You can have blog posts and other articles on your site in other heavy traffic sites to make others know your new one. You can have comments in most of them which will attract many to your articles.
- For initial promotion, you can either buy banners or links from high page rank pages and hence more traffic.
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