Generating Authentic Traffic

I have invested in a blog and have it up and running. My niche is health and I am an affiliate with ClickBank. I am aware that BuzzBundle can be useful but cannot afford much at the moment. I am looking to generate traffic, I understand SEO isn't exactly easy and plan to work up to that. At the moment I just want to get the ball rolling and am willing to do the work manually to get everything going. What is a simple way to bring in a small amount of traffic? Again, not looking to spend anything and willing to put in any work needed.

Twitter, facebook etc. set up social media accounts and post to them, join groups

blogzandstuff said:

Twitter, facebook etc. set up social media accounts and post to them, join groups

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So just a dummy account to post and share the website? I've read that social media sites are programmed to catch on to someone sharing a link repeatedly regardless of the surrounding comment, is that correct?

no not dummy account, set up fan page for your site and a twitter account. post content to them and share posts

No, he means create a legit account for your site. Post interesting content in it and join TONS of groups to try to get fans and then people sharing the cool posts. NOTE: This is a SHIT LOAD of hard work. And for the record most of the time is a complete waste of time.

-ThopHayt

blogzandstuff said:

no not dummy account, set up fan page for your site and a twitter account. post content to them and share posts

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Gotcha, thanks!

ThopHayt said:

No, he means create a legit account for your site. Post interesting content in it and join TONS of groups to try to get fans and then people sharing the cool posts. NOTE: This is a SHIT LOAD of hard work. And for the record most of the time is a complete waste of time.

-ThopHayt

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So would you recommend BuzzBundle? Something else?

ThopHayt said:

No, he means create a legit account for your site. Post interesting content in it and join TONS of groups to try to get fans and then people sharing the cool posts. NOTE: This is a SHIT LOAD of hard work. And for the record most of the time is a complete waste of time.

-ThopHayt

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I agree with that, i personally hate social media but it seems to be the big thing nowadays. I do it only because i feel i need to. It is a lot of work

I would honestly recommend just starting with good old fashioned solid longterm SEO. Grind away, there is no golden ticket to fast traffic, most the promise it are a scam. I do use social shares as part of my SEO, but not to generate traffic. Unless your blog is a niche hobby that has a ready made group of fanatics you are wasting time posting Facebook and Twitter stuff hoping for viral traffic usually. Or perhaps you could, but it would be a lot of work, so much that its not worth the time. Build out a small PBN, find niche blogs and comment them, drip in manually created niche forum posts... good solid clean SEO.

-ThopHayt