In a nutshell, driving traffic to your site is the only way to generate yourself a passive affiliate income. It is because this is the only way you can get people to opt-in to your site and become part of your mailing list so that you can promote them good and high quality products that can help them to know more about what they wanted to know.

There are those website that has big hits to their website as most of them are spending tons of money to drive the traffic to their sites, investing in many advertising campaigns and different forms of marketing schemes and gimmickries. This is all worthwhile because, well, they are what they are now, high earning, big hitting websites.

But not everyone are able to do that, especially those who has just started affiliate marketing and has a tight pocket. Therefore I would like to share with you some of the cheap and effective traffic generation tactics that I used throughout the years

1) Exchange Links

This is a sure and proven method. Many webmasters are willing to exchange links with one another so that they could produce more public awareness about their sites. With this link exchange tactic, you’ll soon see and feel the sudden upsurge of the traffic coming in to your site from other sites.

Take note that you must be only exchange links with those websites that are having the same niche or content as yours so that they can bring you quality traffic.

2) Traffic Exchange

This is like exchanging links but on a different higher level. This may cost a bit more than exchanging or trading links but could be made cheaper because you get to earn credits simply by viewing others traffic and you can then use this credit to advertise your site. The other sites visitors can go to your pages and know more about your site as well as theirs.

3) Write and Submit Articles

Write articles that are themed along with the niche of your site. Write something that you have expertise on so that when they read it, they can feel your knowledge about the subject and will be eager to go to your site. Write articles that produce tips and guidelines to the subject or niche your site has.

Include a resource box at the end of your article that can link them to your site. Write a little about yourself and your site. If you provide a light, information-laden and interesting article, they will go to your site for more.

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The Author is a Full Time Internet Marketer after Quitting his day job as an Engineer in a Multinational Company