subject: 5 Good Ways To Get Traffic To Your Website For Free [print this page] Yes, you can get traffic to your website for free. If you want to promote your business online, or you want to sell your products on the internet, one of the first things you need to do is to get online visitors to come and visit your site.
Not only that. Even if you do not have any products to sell or business to promote, getting traffic or online visitors to your site plays a big role in being able to make money from your website without even selling something. Of course, due to competition on the web, there are existing techniques and strategies that will generate traffic fast but of course, you have to pay for it.
If you are just starting with your site and you don't want to directly go for traffic generating techniques that will cost you big, or if you want to take advantage of some techniques to get traffic to your website for free, then you can actually find a lot of techniques and strategies. Of course, you have to stick to the legal, ethical and acceptable ways.
Here are some ways that can help you get traffic to your website for free.
1. Share your website to friends and acquaintances that you think would be most likely be interested on the topic or niche of your website. If you have a website on beauty and fashion, sharing them to your friends who love dressing up is a good way to spread the word and get online visitors for your site.
2. Reach out to interested people in forums. Forums are popular venues of discussions as well as finding answers to common questions we often raise from time to time. From trifling matters to big issues, forums are great sources of information and of course, a free strategy to get traffic to your site. If you can provide answers on forums, for sure, many people would be interested to visit your site to know more.
3. Write general information articles. Say, if you are into beauty and fashion, you can write articles of general information like how to apply daytime make-up or how to look like Angelina Jolie at a lesser cost. You can then submit your articles to article directories online for free as well and that article will get traffic to your website for free through your links in the resource boxes.
4. Optimize your site with keywords, make your site updated regularly and provide good quality content always so that your site will earn good rankings in the search engines. This may require some experts on search engine optimization but of course, you can learn these techniques by yourself and eventually get traffic to your site on your own.
5. Take advantage of social networking sites. They are not just for online friendships and reconnecting with long lost friends and families but they can also be great tools in promoting your site and getting traffic as well. Facebook and twitter are among the popular ones today, and yes, you can use them to get traffic to your website for free. You can create groups; you can share to friends of friends - and for as long as your website is of good quality and informative, you will eventually gain traffic from them.
