The Best Places to Get Free Traffic For Your Website

We hear it all the time: traffic is the lifeblood of an online business. The profitability of an online business however depends not only on the number of visitors to your website (amount of traffic) but also on how targeted that traffic is. There are many ways of driving free website traffic, but the problem with most of them is that the traffic is often not targeted. So, what are the top best places to get free traffic for your website?

Article directories:-you can drive hundreds of visitors to your website everyday without spending a dime by simply writing short, informative articles about a subject or topic related to your website and submitting them to article directories online.

Article marketing is a very effective traffic generation strategy because your articles can generate traffic for you in months and years to come. Better still, a person that finds one of your articles, reads it and goes ahead to click on the link to your website is almost absolutely interested in what you have to offer or say and if that is not targeted traffic, then I don't know what is. After all, he spent his time reading your article and proceeded to click on to your website instead of moving on elsewhere.

But that is still not the best part. A well written article can become viral and spread across the cyberspace like wildfire when ezine owners and other website owners use them to on their website and blogs and with it, the link back to your website. Therefore any article that you submit to an article directory is like a permanent billboard that continually sends you targeted traffic.

Forums: - by posting in forums in your niche market, you can drive lots of traffic to your website for free. Like article marketing, forum traffic comes from the link in your signature file. You must have a really compelling benefit and a call to action. Alternatively, you can introduce your product as a solution to a problem. Active participation in forums can send you lots of targeted website visitors within no time.

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