Getting listed in Google is definitely the first step you must do to start making money with your website. While it seems easy, many new webmasters are complaining that they failed to do it. They have submitted their websites to Google for months, and still can't find it in Google SERPs. Strangely, some other webmasters said that they can get their websites listed within 24 hours! So, what is the secret? Here are some tips for you:

1. Getting links from PR5+ websites
   

I don't have to explain anymore that to positioning well in Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs), you must get as many high quality back links as you can. There are many ways to get these links; one of the oldest is by offering reciprocal link. Despite the fact that many SEO experts said that reciprocal links are less important to search engines these days, they are still worthwhile to be collected.

Here are the reasons:

Submitting articles to social bookmarking websites is obviously one of the most favorite ways to getting traffics. These kinds of websites have hundreds of thousands visitors every day; once your article is previewed on their front pages, they will send lots of visitors overnight. While this is a real fact, many webmasters complain that those traffics are useless!

1. Myth: High Page Rank = high traffic.

   Fact: Big mistake. Page Rank only shows the popularity level of a website and has no connection with traffic. In fact, many websites with low Page Rank even have high traffic.

2. Myth: Once your website is listed in a "link farm", Google will penalize it.
   

Content is king. You have heard it many times and I believe most of you are trying to create fresh contents everyday. Is it easy? I bet you will say NO. Getting idea for new articles is certainly the most difficult part. But if you're creative, you can find a lot of new ideas from these places:

1. Personal Experience
   

In the first part of this article, I have told you the classic ways to get free one way links and traffics. Now I will tell you how to utilize popular websites (such as Technorati, Wikipedia, MySpace, etc) to get one way links and traffics. Here they are:

6. Using Wikipedia
   

Are there any relationship between one way links and traffics? You have already known the answer: YES! Getting many one way links is the key to rank well in Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs). By ranking well in SERPs, you will get lots of traffics.

One of the oldest ways to get one way links is by asking another webmasters to do three way (or even multi way) links exchange. You must have known how difficult it is; especially if your website is still new and hasn't had any Page Ranks. Fortunately, there are many other ways you can use to get one way links and traffics. Here they are:

You must have heard what people said about how powerful a link from social bookmarking website is. Once a link is featured in the front page of del.icio.us, digg, fark or reddit, it will sent thousands of visitors overnight. But, is it that easy to appear in their front page? Some people will say yes, but most IT developers will say NO!