Pls Rank the Following Internet Marketing Techniques

[SEOnoob]

How do you rank the following free Internet marketing techniques according to efficiency in getting steady traffic to a website selling infoproducts? Something like ranking them from 1 to 5, one being the most efficient and 5 as the last one will help me a lot in completing the research I'm writing.

- forum posting
- article marketing
- link exchanges
- social networks (MySpace, FaceBook, etc.)
- having a blog with link to your site and leaving comments on other blogs

Thanks in advance.

[yoonoo]

1. social networks
2. blog commenting
3. Forum posting
4. link exchanges
5. article marketing
- So far i am doin' fine in social networking especially in squidoo

[Vitalink]

They are all good ways but I would say

1. article marketing (with high rank PR like ezine)
2. social bookmarking
3. forum posting
4. Blogs
5. link exchange

Just my opinion though

[jcorkern]

If you asked my advice, I would say to pick one (other than link exchange) and become an expert in that field, then pick another, master it and then go to the next one.

There is a reason for this, If you do not become fully proficent in one before strating the next, it is easy to take shortcuts, and then all fail. Learn one at a time, study and do it until it is second nature to you as each one will get different results acording to your style and your product. Remember that just because it does not work on the first attempt that it is not for you, but test, stop and think about it from the visitors prespective.

Then once you get that part working right, move to the next.

Doing too much at one time is like having motivation without direction, and that will give you nothing but frustration.

But all work (I am not impressed with link exchange)

[seomaterial]

Good poll.
Please note that 5 mean high rank & 1 mean low rank, So I have given following rank.

5. forum posting
4. article marketing
1 link exchanges
3. social networks (MySpace, FaceBook, etc.)1
2. having a blog with link to your site and leaving comments on other blogs.

[Niche]

You left out the big one in your poll which is SEO, All else is secondary

I suppose article marketing is second and forum participation third

Fourth and fifth, not really bothered

Link exchange is something that I say should probably not be on the list. You want traffic that converts and links that help your SEO efforts

[MrCat]

My top picks would have to be:
1. Content development and improvement
2. SEO
3. Paid advertising
4. Other link building techniques for drawing direct targeted traffic

[mccain]

This is a nice poll. I would rank the mentioned techniques in the following order

1.social networks
2.having a blog
3.article marketing
4.forum posting
5.link exchanges

Thank you.

[helen_gracio]

1 - PR and article marketing
2 - social networks (digg, wist, stumbleupon, livejournal...)
3 - forum posting
4 - dofollow blog commenting

Never
- link exchanges

[peiprofit]

I would go for...

1. article marketing
2. blog commenting
3. social networks
4. forum posting
5. link exchange

The top 4 choices would be able to give you a viral traffic. Link exchange may just drop you value.