I remember when I created my first web site. I designed it, published it and then waited expectantly for Google to list it in their page rankings. Of course, I didnt expect to be up at the top of the listings but I did think I would be there somewhere.
After several days the disappointment began to set in. I had a great web site but no one was going to see it because Google wasnt including me in their listings! All that work for nothing. So I started looking around the net, trying to find out why I wasnt being listed. It was now that I discovered that it can take Google up to 8 months to include your site on their search engine. This was a devastating blow. I couldnt wait 8 months before people saw my web site!
My next plan of action was to get some traffic to my web site, maybe that would help get me noticed. I designed a banner free of charge from a site on the web, this was really easy, even as a beginner it was done in 5 minutes. I then bought some banner impressions from a seller on ebay. Typically this involved displaying your banner 1,000,000 for a fee of say $4.99. So I signed up for this and expected the traffic to come flying to my site. Well, if I got 1...