You have to have site that is popular in order to get hits. Take myspace for example it very popular among kids thus the word of mouth advertisement is used. This I think is the best way to increase traffic. The second best option is to go around and post your website into all the search engine databases you can find. Also you might want to try Googles adsense program which can get you some money also. Most big search engines like Yahoo! or Google will let you also put a ad on their results page. Linking with othersites is really not that great. If you are using that as your main source of getting people to come I don’t see how you got 200 700 daily comming.

Christopher – thanks for this post. Cute? Maybe… but I thought my site had been hacked. Cute? I don’t think so… because the Smiley doesn’t show up when working on my site from my primary computer (where I installed the plugin from). The smiley only shows up to visitors and I only noticed once I viewed my website while traveling. WTF. This sure makes it seem like an effort to hide the smiley, if so why? And why not tell us about it and allow control? I have to seriously question what this plugins true goals are. Uninstalled for me until I find out.

I much prefer informative articles like this to that high brow literature.

Thank God! Someone with brains speaks!

I can already tell that's gonna be super helpful.