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If you don’t use paid traffic, and that includes affiliate partners, then you’re going to need a strong content marketing strategy if you want your blog to grow.
The days of being able to throw some backlinks up on your site and rise in the rankings is long gone. In fact doing that now will only make it harder for your site to get a good ranking.
In my opinion there is now only one real way to generate free SEO based traffic, and that’s through comprehensive content marketing based on providing targeted and valuable information for your website visitors.
