NEW PAGEBUILDING: In response to numerous requests over the years, we've finally put on line a comprehensive summary of the techniques developed at Project HappyChild for building website traffic, as well as detailing free/shareware software used to streamline the maintenance of the whole site, along the way.
Much of our traffic comes via the huge quantities of links from other sites on the Internet (for which our unremitting thanks!) and from word-of-mouth recommendations, but a substantial proportion comes from the search engines also and the structure of the site has evolved over the last four years to be as "search-engine friendly" as possible - as well as accessible to the maximum number of browsers, given that our visitors come from a wide range of countries with very different levels of computer capabilities.
Much of what's written is fairly unconventional - and all of it very low-tech! - but regardless the traffic-building tips are considerably more "proven" than most of what you will find on the Internet today. The Traffic Building Guide has been added to Area 10, "Build Your Own Website".