15 free traffic techniques that work:
1. Submit your site to the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN) and to as many other search engines as you can.
2. Write 1-2 articles each week and submit them to the free article directories. Be sure to include a link to your site after each article in your bio box. The articles should be optimized for a keyword your site is targeting.
3. Submit those same articles to email newsletter publishers in your niche.
4. Find blogs related to your topic and leave useful comments with a backlink to your site. Here's a great free tool you can use to find the best targeted blogs where you can leave your backlinks.
5. Answer questions related to your site’s topic at answers.yahoo.com. Be sure to put a link to your site in each of your answers.
6. Join a handful of the most popular forums that deal with your site's topic and become an active poster. Include a link to your site in your signature.
7. Write a press release about your site and submit it to press release sites such as prweb.com. If you are not familiar with press releases, take some time to do a little research: a press release is not written like an article.
8. If you are happy with a product or service you have used, write an unbiased testimonial and trade it for a backlink to your site.
9. Start a blog on blogger.com and a blog on wordpress.com, link them to your site and submit them to the hundreds of free blog directories. This will get you plenty of quality traffic as long as you keep your blogs updated.
10. Post ads with a link to your site on all the free classified ad sites you can find (such as craigslist.org). The best ones will allow you to post a live link. But don’t neglect the other ones. If your ad is well written, people will go out of their way and type your url in their browser. Off course you must post in the appropriate category.
11. Write an interesting email signature that includes a link to your site, and use it with every outgoing business email you send.
12. Start a page on myspace.com and on any other high page rank social bookmarking site you can find and link them to your site.
13. Submit a viral video to youtube.com. You don’t really need any video producing know-how as a simple PowerPoint slideshow with some background music will do the job.
14. Search your main keywords on Google and see if you can exchange reciprocal links with related websites that come up in the top results.
15. Write an ebook or a short report (say 10 to 20 pages), or find a product with giveaway rights that you can brand with a link to your site. Then submit it to all the free ebook directories you can find online.
While all this looks like a full time job, remember, you don’t have to use them all at once. Just pick the one you feel the best with and act now. Invest 30 minutes to an hour daily in building your free traffic.
Then step to your next favorite technique and within a few weeks you should be earning enough money to afford to buy traffic. Or instead of buying traffic, you could pay someone (do you have kids?) to do the free traffic strategies that work best for you, a few hours a day!
