Maintaining your website's traffic and backlinks are one of the most difficult and challenging to make. It is not easy because there are lots of things you need to take care of every month which includes:

* Monthly pay to your web hosting (e.g., GoDaddy, Hostgator, BlueHost, etc.)

* Forum posting with signatures

* Manual web directory submissions

* Article/blog/press release directory submissions

* Article writing (with keyword/keyphrases), Blog posting and Press Release writing

* Linkwheel

* E-mail blasts and list building

* Promoting to classified ads and social media/networks

* And so much more!

These are the things we need to maintain monthly for one site only, just to keep things going for building backlinks and traffic. It's really simple you know, but it's pretty exhausting. Webmasters spent most of their time performing SEO tactics whether it's blackhat or whitehat mode. Imagine you are just maintaining it and no more time for relaxing and hang out with your family and friends, but in return your site will become popular in the SERPS (Search Engine Ranking Pages). Unless if you're hiring a virtual assistant which could be found in webmaster forums like Digitalpoint, Sitepoint, GetAFreelancer, LimeExchange, ODesk, WickedFire, Craigslist and other databases which can take your place, it's great but you need to pay for him every month at least $75 or more monthly.

Virtual assistants can maintain your site every month, as they take over your place. It could be single or a team, but I think a tea of virtual assistants could work out best for you so that they can save time for some extra time for leisure, rather than hiring only one virtual assistant who can work more than 10 hours daily. This is where you and virtual assistants are challenged to maintain the site's traffic, backlinks and popularity. It's really worth for both you and them because you gain backlinks, they earn money from you for paying them for maintenance of your website.