As we all should know by now, online traffic drives everything we do online. No matter how good everything else operates online, if we do not have traffic, we do not really have anything.

And one really good source of online traffic is search engine traffic. The nice thing aobut search engine traffic is that once it is created, it generally costs nothing to get – I am of course assuming natural or organic search engine rankings, and not PPC.

Of course, there is a cost in time or money to everything you do online – and time is money.

I currently (as of 4-10-07) generate about $75 for every hour I am online – so time is definitely money. Oh, by the way – once you start thinking of yourself and your time as having a value, your value online will go up.

The idea is that if you are doing work you can outsource for less than you are worth – you should outsource it – and I am going through the process of doing that for some time now.

Back to search engine traffic.

One of the ways that I like to generate search engine traffic is by writing and submitting articles with my links inside them – to the various online article directories.

The articles themselves give me instant traffic, and the backlinks help get me traffic in the search engines for years to come.

The bottom line with search engine optimization is that you have to have a purpose - and what is your purpose?

I like article marketing because it not only creates links for my search engine optimization strategy, but because it creates immediate traffic for my web site - which is my purpose.

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Sean Mize is a full time internet marketer who has written over 900 articles in print and 9 published ebooks.