The holy grail of internet marketing seems to be getting "free" traffic. Even though you could do a lot with paid traffic, such as pay-per-click, free traffic is great. There are several ways you can get some free traffic to your main website.
Blogging is one of the easiest ways to get free traffic, but like any other website, you still have to get traffic to the main blog. However, blogs have a major advantage over regular websites because they have an RSS feed built in. Also, depending on which blogging platform you use, there are some instant advantages because if you use wordpress.com, the domain tends to rank very well with the search engines. Also, Google owns Blogger.com and has a tendency to "hang out" on their own properties looking for new updated content.
There are several social bookmarking sites, such as Digg.com and Del.icio.us and other sites like this. You can "bookmark" your own blog posts and other pages to help them get ranked in the search engines. Often times these social bookmarking "tag" pages will get ranked as well. Although this isn't a direct link, these pages can serve as bridge pages with links back to your site and these pages rank also rank very well with the search engines.
Some other sites that can help you get traffic and rank well on their own are sites like Hubpages.com and Squidoo.com. If you have done your keyword research and know what keywords are getting searched for, you'll have an easy time finding keywords that are getting searched, but have very little competition. Using these keywords in the title of your Squidoo "Lens" or your Hubpages "Hub". Using the keywords in both your title and again throughout the page you create then doing some additional social bookmarking links back to your "Lens" or "Hub" and watch it get ranked in the search engines.
The single best free traffic source is article marketing. In the eyes of the search engines these article websites have a very high authority and rank very well with the search engines. This also means that links from these article pages are usually very relevant. Because you are the one that writes the articles or at least controls the content of those articles, the links back to your pages on your site will be very relevant and the search engines will reward you with higher rankings.
Contributing to forums is a great way to get links back to your site as well. The downside to most forums is that they have a "nofollow" policy which means that the links aren't "followed" by the search engines. These forums may not do as much to help you from the search engine perspective alone, but an often visited forum in a niche you're in will get you some targeted traffic. This is usually done by adding a signature to your posts with a link. You'll have to check with the forum to make sure this is ok and determine what their policy is regarding their signatures.
Many blogs get a lot of traffic and with the comments you can add on a lot these blogs, you'll get people clicking through to your website. There are also what are called "dofollow" blogs that will help you with your search engine optimization as well.
There are several things that you can do to help you get traffic to your site. These are only a handful of ways you can use. The more time you spend trying these things out, the more you'll learn and the better you'll get at getting rankings and traffic.
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