One problem many thing new internet marketers are looking to find a solution for is how to get traffic to their newly created website.

When you’re experienced in IM and been around the block like many big internet marketers, all you need to do is send out an email to your list, ask a few of friends to do the same, and you’ll receive thousands of unique visitors in no time at all. You’ll likely also have other advertising strategies, websites and resources at your disposal.

But if you’re just starting out, where do you start? What do you start on? What if you don’t know anyone?

If I had a new ‘sales page’ website and was starting from scratch, here are the exact steps I’d take to populate my site with a good amount of web traffic:

1. Start a blog using WordPress hosted on your own keyword rich domain name. Add the Google sitemap plugin (to ping the Google when you add a post) and write and publish 5 posts in your first week to week and a half. Continue adding posts at a minimum rate of 2-3 a week thereafter.

2. Put ads, opt-in forms, signatures and links on your blog to your sales site.

3. Submit the blog to 10 of the top related blog directories (only after you have 5 posts or more).

4. Write 10 related keyword targeted articles and submit them each to 10 article directories. Include a link in your signature to your new blog as well as your sales site.

5. Exchange links with other blogs and websites.

6. Leave expert comments on other authority blogs with a backlink to your site.

7. Put an opt-in form on both your bog and sales site setup with an autoresponder campaign to keep people coming back for more.

8. Put free ads on Craigslist, UsFreeAds.com, Yahoo classifieds and other free sites.

9. Post in forums and include relevant links in your signature.

10. Upload a video to YouTube. Start a Squidoo lens and post to it. Do the same thing with Hub Pages. Start a MySpace profile if that’s up your alley and so on.

11. When everything else is done and you know how your sales page is converting, you might want to experiment with PPC and other types of paid advertising.

The reasons this method works is simple. It positions your blog in such a way that it will be favorable to the major search engines and thus bring you a considerable amount of free search engine traffic. It also gives you hundreds of backlinks and gets your stuff published across a variety of other websites, newsletters and publications which will give your target audience ample opportunity to visit your new site.

It might not be for everyone, nor may you agree with it. All I can say is that it works and it works every single time. Take from it what you will.

If you are looking for ever more methods of traffic generation, you can check out the following blog post I did a while back that lists my top 50 traffic generation tips.

Justin Michie is an internet marketing entrepreneur, online business coach and author of the best selling Internet Marketing Book, Street Smart Internet Marketing.