Traffic Building

To succeed in doing internet business, one needs to drive quality traffic to his or her website. There are a few different ways to drive traffic to your internet business, free and paid advertising. In this article, I will talk about the different ways to drive traffic for free.

1. Set up an affiliate program for the product that you are selling, where you pay people a certain percentage o f each sale for referring customers to you. Spread the word about your affiliate program by submitting it to affiliate program directories and contacting the owners of related websites.

2. Optimize your website to be search engine friendly, so that you website can be found at the top 3 pages of the result pages of various search engines.

3. Comment on blogs and post thread in forum. Attach a signature containing your website URL for each thread that you post. For each blog comment that you post, do remember to place your website URL within it.

4. Write articles. Article marketing is one the greatest ways to generate traffic to your internet business. Do create a good author’s resource box for each of the article that you write, and include your website URL in it.

5. Create an e-book and give it for free. Include links back to your website in your free e-book.

6. Advertise your website on free classified sites. There are many of these on the net. Some of the more popular ones are craigslist, inetgiant, freeadvertisingforum, and gumtree.

7. Exchange links with websites that provide the same information that you got. Joint venture is a great way to send quality traffic to your website.

8. Word of mouth. Tell everyone you know about your website. Above are a few ways that you can drive traffic to your internet business for free. But remember, not all traffic are good. The trick for all internet marketers to master is to drive QUALITY traffic to his or her internet business.