What is the one way to passive income on the internet? You need to get consistent, passive traffic, of course! On the internet, there is no money without traffic. That's the golden rule, and there's no getting around that. The only way to get passive traffic that lasts for years after you've stopped tweaking it is to get it through the search engines.

I mean, think about it. PPC? No way. You stop paying, they stop coming. Social network marketing? Not even close. You stop friend requesting and the visits stop. There's no other way than search engines.

Here's what a lot of people don't realize, though. It doesn't necessarily have to be your sites ranking in the engines. You can get traffic through creating pages on third party, high ranking sites and encouraging people to click through to your site.

It's like a trade off. You give the article directory, blog network, wiki, social bookmarking site, social news site, rss directory, or video tube site content to build their virtual real estate, and they, in return, give you a platform to promote yourself and your business. And since they've afforded this opportunity to many before you, their sites are content monsters, and Google loves them. And because Google loves their site, the search engine results will love your page, it will rank highly, and gigantic torrents of targeted traffic will flood into your website via the search engines for years to come.

Sounds perfect, right? It's the perfect plan.

Wrong.

You see, what's wrong with this is it is extremely labor intensive. Creating accounts at all of these sites and doing the submissions is a gigantic job that takes days just for one keyword. And for someone who's looking for passive internet traffic, that doesn't sound very passive, does it?

The truth is, the closest you can come to auto internet marketing requires the intervention of software - it will never be anything approaching automatic to attempt it by hand.