Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Free Website Traffic Without Breaking The Bank

By Doug Taylor

If you are trying to meet your goals of getting traffic to your website you may be tempted to check out some programs that promise free website traffic. You need to do your homework because usually if something sounds too good to be true it probably is. Make sure the program you are looking at is really free and does not have any hidden costs involved.

Certainly the free website traffic service you will want to use will be the one that can help get you more visitors to your site. Although the primary reason to use such a service is to get visitors on your website you need to attract the right kind of targeted traffic that will convert into profit for you.

You may or may not find such a service that works well but the best thing you can do is to spend time working on getting your own traffic to your site. We will look at a few ways you as a website owner can work on getting traffic coming to your site without having to pay out your hard earned cash to someone else.

One of the first orders of business will be to make your sites search engine friendly as you can. Spend some time making your pages just right and try submitting to some directories. Do not rely only on the big boys; try submitting to some of the smaller guys also. If you can get your site listed it will help with your search engine rankings.

Next if you are selling your own product you should start your own affiliate program. Although you have to pay out some money to your affiliates you need to remember they are the ones getting the traffic to your site. This can be simple or hard depending on how you go about it. Probably the easiest method is to use a service such as ClickBank.

Another method that has been known to work is to set up a links page. If possible it is good to trade links in a three-way fashion. You could link to someone's site and they link to your site from a different site. Once you have your page up and running try contacting site owners to see if you can get the ball rolling.

Finally another couple of ways in which you can get free website traffic to your own site is by visiting online discussion forums or through posting comments on other people's blogs. Ideally it is a good idea if you offer some useful response to what is already being discussed or to answer a particular question that someone has raised. Remember after including your comment or answer include not just your name but a link to your website also.

As you can see getting free website traffic just takes a little time and work. Spend some of the time you work on your business to learn and educate yourself. It will pay off when you start seeing more people stopping by your website

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