First and foremost, Adsense would be the best way to get money online even without clients, but in order to earn big, you need massive amount of visitors. But where can we get those massive amount of traffic?

Here are my solutions on getting traffic online, including the disadvantages of it:

• Social Bookmarking – this is cool but as you can see, millions of people a day would promote their sites using this method, which may put your website at the bottom list.
• Organic SEO – Google and Yahoo are the big players in search engine industry, but you can’t tell whether your site would be on the top list or in the bottom because algorithm changes from time to time.
• Link exchange – Getting links from other known sites would give the best traffic that you’ll ever need. But can you sacrifice your time in looking for webmasters who can accept your site? I mean, for every 1000 sites you have visited, only 3 or 4 would be accepted.
• Forum participation – Well forum links are good, but until when? Forum profiles can be either banned or deleted.

Adwords (or any other Pay-per-click services) may give you good amount of traffic, just a small amount of budget can give you high amount of Adsense clicks.

But some would say that Adsense-Arbitration is bad, because Google removed Adwords Arbitrage publishers. Why would it be?

Some sites are counted as Scraper sites, which made up of entirely ads. Hopefully, if you know how to arbitrate Adwords and Adsense, good for you.

I hope Google would take action to that.

As we all know, Knol can be used as a tool for site promotion, but most of the links are nofollowed, or if abused, your entry will be removed.

References/Links:

Wikipedia’s definition of KNOL

Google Knol