Q: Do I need a traffic pump to get traffic to my site?

A: Traffic pumps work like this:
Site “A” is a content-heavy site that follows all the rules and is worth listing on search engines, directories and link lists. This kind of site is also called a hub or a feeder. Site “A” is the real site. The main site. This is the site good enough to show to your mom or at least your perverted uncle. Site “A” is the site that draws in the traffic. You submit site “A” to search engines and directories, link lists and other such resources and if you’ve done it right, you’ll begin to see the visits come to your hub.

Once you have surfers on your “A” site then you want to keep them in your web. You do this by creating a bunch of “B” sites and linking to them from your “A” page. These “B” sites will be more ad-heavy than the “A” site is. Some webmasters build additional “C” sites that are even more ad-intensive and they’re linked from the “B” sites. Do you need to build this whole network of sites to get traffic? No. You really only have to build the first site, the “A” site. If you want to get traffic without buying it, then you have to build a page that’s worth listing.

Still, it’s a good idea to create a network of sites and link them all together. Search engines and directories like sites that are linked to from other domains.