Bring more traffic to my website

been using a bit of PPC to drive traffic to my website about the latest pruhealth offer at Virgin Active Gyms with mixed success.
Spending GBP50 per day in order to make on average 80 per day is not particularly good business, as a few days with no signups leaves me out of pocket!

The alternative is to continue to pay for links, and try to persuade people to stick links in their sites too.

of anyone has any other ideas for driving (free) traffic, it’d be great to hear them!

i’ve been active on some sports forums recently, and in the signature line of my posts, i’ve got links to both my cricket shirts site and my football shirts site. it’s actually increasing the traffic slightly from clicks from the forums, so i’m happy about that – the other think is i hope it actually gets seen as a link for search engines. it can’t hurt i guess?

google google google.

why does EVERYONE use them to search the web?

i can crack MSN search with my sites – i don’t know how, i just have a knack of getting ranked well pretty quick.

but GOOGLE. nada, zip, nothing.

i need incoming links to my sites. i know that, but it’s just so hard to do! if anyone out there has related sites to football or cricket, then let me know if you want a link exchange, and i’ll consider all options

my football site – http://www.england-football-shirts.co.uk

it’s the holy grail of web work really – there’s no point having sites if you can’t get the traffic.

i’m starting by registering with the search engines, but then to get anywhere, you need links!!

so here i am – it’s a plea! if anyone out there fancies helping by sticking a link to my site, currently, my first site is http://www.cricket-shirts.co.uk and it’s top of MSN, but nowhere on google, which is the biggie really.

i’m going to post links whereever i can, but would appreciate any ideas on where to get links, and also other ways of promoting.