There are many
ways to generate free traffic, but unfortunately most
free traffic methods are useless. I am not saying they
don’t send you traffic to your websites, but I am
saying that the quality is of such poor value that you
might as well not have any traffic at all. So the
question arises as to what are good free traffic
sources and what are not?
Traffic exchanges
If you are using
traffic exchanges you are in a sense, spitting into
the wind.
I can say with
the up-most certainty that even if your offer or
splash page is internet marketing related, that you
will generate very little in the way of free traffic.
If you are using traffic exchanges as a source for
your traffic and your offer is not related to internet
marketing then you are really wasting your time.
Article submissions
Article
submission to big article directories like
EzineArticles.com and GoArticles.com use to be a
pretty good way of getting some quality targeted
traffic. With the huge increase of people spamming
these sites with poor quality articles and the recent
panda update made to the Google algorithm, article
directories are not producing anywhere near the
amounts of free traffic they use to.
JV Giveaway Events
These types of
events are still a great way to generate some targeted
free traffic to your sites, and also help build your
mailing list. They are not the easiest ways to
generate traffic but if you can send some traffic to
the referral link they give you and if you have a
descent gift that you created for an offer, you can do
very well with this method of traffic generation.
Forum Traffic
This is another
good way of generating some very targeted free traffic
to your websites, if done properly. When trying to
generate traffic with forums there are some things you
have to remember. You have to do a bit of keyword
research when making your post on forums, making sure
to include your keywords in the title of your post.
The reason behind this is because most forums rank
very well with search engines and this increases your
chance of your post ranking very high in the search
results for your keyword phrase, getting traffic not
only from the forum but also from the search engines.
Software Traffic
This is
something very new and extremely viral. The idea
behind this is to create or have someone create a
software program that performs a particular function
such as a program to calculate mortgage payments or a
calorie calculator, but you want to have a special
feature built into the software. The software should
have a small browser window built into it were you can
have a banner or text message in the window so that
people that open the software tool can see your ads
that are integrated in the software tool. This is a
powerful vehicle for free traffic as it is easy to
give away software to the thousands of sites that host
free software. A good example of this kind of free
traffic generation can be found at
http://333aplus.com .
You can hire programmers for very reasonable cost in
countries like India and the Philippians.