Webdev, in all honesty ezinearticles is really the main method of promotion for flat stomach exercises. Oh and I did submit to 3-4 paid directories. I haven't done any "digging" or any social bookmarking sites. I really landed a gold mind with that one because I hardly did anything but kept writing content. I get a lot of traffic from stumbleupon and I never registered my site with them. It's all from others who liked the site and referred it to their friends.
While search engine traffic is important, it's also important to get more NON search engine links in order to show the search engines that people like and value your site. And more importantly, if your rankings drop for a while you (everyone encounters that at least once) then you want to be able to sustain your biz with other traffic sources. Plus having those NON SE links will give the search engines a reason to return those good rankings when SE fluctuation dust settles.
For the first 2-3 years, 2create kept dropping, gaining, dropping and gaining in the SERPS but as the content grew and my site aged it has been maintaining.
Webdev I still think the fluctuations you are seeing are due to the newness of your site. Once you've been around awhile you'll see those SE levels maintain a lot more. As I said, it took Google nearly a year and a half to start bring flat stomach a good amount of traffic.
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