Ways to Drive Free Traffic to Your Sites

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For all Webmasters and bloggers, Traffic is the most important concern. A good and informative site will be useless without traffic. There are a lot of ways to drive traffic to your websites. You have to spend money for some of the ways and you will receive good quality traffic through those paid methods. But there are MANY FREE Methods that can drive higher quality traffic to your websites.

Online Methods

Search Engine Optimization
This is the most important method that can drive thousands of free traffic to your website. If you have a high ranking website in popular search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN, you don’t need any other method as because the free traffic they drive to your site will be enough.

Write free downloadable E-Book
You can have a free downloadable e-book about your website subject, activities, products or services and invite visitors to download, read and pass it to others. This is a kind of viral marketing which is very effective and can generate a steady stream of traffic to your website after a while. If you don’t know how to write e-book, you can easily pay someone to do it for you.
Add Signature to your Emails
Make a signature for your email and include your website URL as well as the URL for downloading your e-book in it.
Use Auto responder
Most visitors, who come to your website, leave it before doing anything and never come back. Having an auto responder is a good way to attract them to your website once again in future.
Exchange Link
Exchanging links with other websites is a good way to receive free traffic but please note that if your do it excessively, search engines may penalize or even ban your website. You can exchange links with about 10 to 20 websites that are merely related to your website theme and subject, on the home page.
Exchange Banners
Participate in Forums
Write Articles and submit them to Article Directories.
Submit your site to Web Directories
Create a group at Yahoo, Google and MSN groups
Participate in Yahoo Answers
Submit your Website pages and articles to Social bookmarking sites.
Become an active member in social bookmarking sites.
Join Traffic generating sites (e.g. TrafficSwarm)
Post comment on other weblogs on a regular basis.

Offline Methods

There are also a lot of offline methods for sending traffic to your websites. Although some of them look time consuming, they are really effective.

Publish Fliers
Publish fliers in your area. You don’t have to pay for it. You can do it with your own printer and with a very small budget. You can do it every weekend and distribute about 300 to 500 fliers in your area. This will generate a few hundreds of traffic per month. Although the amount of traffic doesn’t look reasonable, it has a high quality because only those who are really interested in your service/product will visit your website and your will receive reasonable number of orders.
Wrap up your car
Some people sell advertising space on their car to make some money but your can advertise your own website on your car and it really works and drives traffic to your website. You can find car wrapping services in your city and pay them to warp up your car. It will be a free resource of traffic.
Let your friends, relatives and neighbors know about your website and its activities.
Write your website URL on your garage doors.
Write articles for newspapers and magazines for free.