The 3 Best Methods for Generating Free Traffic

Traffic, Yum I want some! So you have a new product or service and have just finished paying a web designer hundreds if not thousands of dollars so that you can wow your visitors. What’s next you may ask? That’s easy. Now you have to figure out how to get those hordes of people to your site.

Most people starting out usually wonder how much money they will have to spend in order to get people to see their web site. I am here to tell you that you can generate top quality targeted traffic for free!

Free Traffic Method #1 – Utilizing social media. This is the most powerful way to generate free traffic because it groups together the many practices people use to share all kinds of content amongst themselves. Social media is quite simply massive and there are tons of resources you can use to drive traffic to your website. Think about all the social networking sites there are out there (ie. myspace and facebook). What about all the video sharing websites around the net. I have seen some really bad videos of people advertising their products that have gotten thousands of plays. Oh and let’s not forget about all of those social bookmarking sites. In fact I remember posting a poker article that got dugg over a thousand times. Photo sites, podcasting sites and even virtual reality sites are used by thousands as methods of free advertising. Trust you can generate hundreds if not thousands of unique visitors to your site by mean of using social media.

Free Traffic Method #2 – Create a blog. Simply put if you have a product or service online and you don’t have a blog you are missing out. If you are an expert in a field people generally want to read about what you have to say. And if these people like what you have to say and want to hear more they might even purchase a product you have created of endorsed. You can generate traffic to your blog by maximizing your build in RSS feeds, creating a blogroll, creating articles (ie content), and by leaving comments on other blogs.

Free Traffic Method #3 – Search Engine Optimization. If you know what you are doing SEO can be the most powerful free traffic source for your website. If you doubt me then ask yourself this. What is the first thing you do when you go looking for information on a subject? I thought so. You go to your favourite search engine. While staying on top of the search engines can be tough you won’t be complaining if your website is up on the first 2 or 3 pages of google for a major searched keyword.

There are many other free traffic methods that I suggest you consider when promoting your product, however I didn’t consider them as fitting into my top 3 methods. Some of these methods include: creating and submitting articles, press release distribution, and posting in forums.

So what about the paid methods? Sure you spend money on press release distributions and by posting your banner on targeted websites (blogs and content sites). But can’t you use free press release distribution services? And if you have a great product shouldn`t your affiliate program persuade someone to advertise your product on their site for free. To be honest I believe you should set aside some money for marketing, however I would spend wisely. Unless you have a niche product that runs you a very low PPC (pay per click) cost you could be spending a lot of money without even knowing it!

Can you sugest any other free traffic methods?

Errol Potok
Check out my personal blog at BusinessShakers.com/errol

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