Yes, it is so: This is another great resource for writing articles for your web site. I hesitate to give it out because it is old and before the advent of social networking. But, the fundamentals are still strong and worth a good read over.
You need to first STOP complaining and spreading yourself too thin with all these different methods that you're "trying". Okay, so you live in the UK, great but Google offers Global results, so that means the results should be one in the same. Currently, here in the U.S the competition results are "27,500,000 results" with 301,000 "Global" search results and "135,000" local results. Now, I don't know about you but "27,500,000 results" is an insanely difficult number of competing websites to out rank. That's why what I do is look for keywords below "40,000 results" and over "3,000" searches to make it both worthwhile and much easier to rank high on the search engines. To get traffic to your blog my honest advice to you is to focus your efforts and time on FREE SIMPLE traffic methods. The top three for me are: 1. Forum marketing - if your niche is "internet marketing" then here at the Warrior Forum is where you should be 24/7, 365 days a year! Just be active, positive, and provide value in all your responses and questions. Oddly enough this will get people clicking your signature link, singing up to your opt-in page, and eventually purchasing your product or an affiliate product you promote. 2. Article marketing - I know, know...everyone is saying it's not working and not effective anymore but truth is it still WORKS and is free. Just focus on submitting ONE article a day to Ezinearticles.com FIRST, wait for it to be approved, and then submit that same article (with a little rephrasing to avoid having Google think it's duplicate content, which will bring your search engine rankings lower) to goarticles and articlesbase. 3. Blog commenting - Go on the TOP blogs in your niche and be the FIRST to comment on a blog post, making sure your comment is valuable and contributes to the post. Just focus on these three for now and EXECUTE! Don't half ass them, really do them to full completion! DO NOT underestimate the simplicity of these methods, because from my experience and from many of the most successful marketers today, simple techniques like these when executed bring amazing results. So, be consistent and persistent in your actions. And DON'T GIVE UP! Within a couple weeks you should have a decent number of subscribers on your list to market to or sales if you choose to drive your traffic straight to a sales page. Now stop reading this long thread and go TAKE ACTION! Sonam