Create Traffic to Your Website

How To Get Free Website Traffic

This is part 2 of the “How to Make Money Online Series“.

As I mentioned before, there are two ways to get traffic to your website:

Paid traffic (Google adwords) and free traffic. I will tell you how to get free website traffic. I understand that most people that start an online business, don’t have the budget for expensive Google ads. You need free traffic and lots of it. I will cut to the chase and tell you my top ways to get free website traffic.

Top ways to get free traffic:

1. Write Lots of Keyword Rich Articles
   You can write a bunch of articles on your niche and publish it on article directories like Ezinearticles or CopyBlogger.com. You can put links to your articles pointing to your site and this way you will get free website traffic that is targeted as well.

2. Go Viral & Submit Your Videos to All Video Sites
   You can use Camtasia (or Camstudio is free) or other video tools to make loads of videos and upload them to various video sites with one click using Tubemogul. Put a link to your site in the video’s description and see your free website traffic skyrocket!

3. Use Social Media (Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, etc.)
   Nothing is easier than to start a free profile with Facebook, Myspace, or whatever other social media you  choose. On Facebook you can start money making groups, post links on your and other people’s groups and also update your status with links to your site. This is a great way to build trust, a steady following to your sites or products and of course to get free website traffic. Same goes for LinkedIn and MySpace. be active and show your true potential.

4. Use Social-bookmarking
   Submit all your articles and web pages to the biggest social bookmarking sites like, digg, stumbleupon, propellor, reddit, delicious, buzz etc. Addthis is a very helpful tool to add to your pages, where you and other people can add the articles to all these sites with the press of one button. This works really well, in the short term and also builds up back links to your site. It’s definitely one of the best ways to get free website traffic, especially in the short term.

5. Become a Twitter Expert
   The new social media and micro-blogging site is becoming very popular and is one of the best ways to get thousands of people to see links and descriptions of your sites. You can get hundreds of free hits every day if you build a big Twitter following. To make this easier, you can use an automated way to get thousands of followers with The Twitter Online system or Twitter Traffic Machine. This way is potentially one of the easiest and best way to get free website traffic on autopilot.

6. Be Active in Forums
   Join a few popular forms in your niche and make a lot of interesting posts and comments. Make sure to have your link in your signature. This will also build some nice back links for free website traffic.

7. Email Marketing
   You should definitely get a good auto responder, like Aweber, and build yourself a list. In a matter of months you can have a huge list of potential customers that you can mail at will with your offers. This could bring you a lot of extra sales.

8. Create a Blog
   Create a blog at Blogspot or use WordPress to write about every product that you promote and comment on other blogs as well. Get free website traffic when you use all your links in these blogs. Blogs tend to rank up pretty high with Google, so it gives you good back links.

9. Use Viral Marketing
   This can really get you a lot of free traffic if you start to promote your link a bit. It’s pretty easy to do. Most sites require you to view a few sites to get started and you then promote your link. All the people that you referred, have to view your site as well and the people that they refer and so, for many levels deep. So if you refer 3 people, and they refer 3 people and so on and so on, you can actually get thousands of hits and get free website traffic easily. I can recommend Million Ez Hits, if you want to try viral traffic.

10. Traffic Exchange sites
    You can get an unlimited amount of free hits to your website with this kind of free website traffic, you are only limited by the time you put in. You have to surf different people’s sites and get credits for doing so. These credits are used to “buy” views for your website, banners or text ads. So, for instance, you view 100 sites, 100 people will view your site. It’s best to use a good splash page for this traffic to get the surfer’s attention. Sign up pages work well. The top Traffic exchanges I can recommend would be Easy Hits 4u, Traffic Splash and Traffic Taxis. Use all 3 at the same time, taking turns surfing the sites, you will build credits quickly.

There are many other ways to get free website traffic, and with experience you will find which ones work best for you. If you are considering using paid advertising, like Adwords, I recommend you get a good guide like The Commission BluePrint , to help you step by step to setup profitable campaigns and make huge commissions. If you don’t you could lose a lot of money very fast.

For other valuable insights to the Web Marketing Business see the column to the right or go back to part 1 of this series:”How to Make Money Online Series“.

 Claudiu Geanta is a serial entrepreneur and founder of Design by Satori Inc. & Satori CG Inc.. He helps businesses promote their presence on and off line. He is also an accomplished web designer, book writer and photographer. You can follow him on Twitter.
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