Prior to spending your hard earned money on web traffic, you ought to look at no cost ways to advertise your site. A number of folks think they can merely report their sites to all the search engines then after that relax and watch as the sales roll in, but it doesn't work.

I once thought I might merely report my site to all of search engines then wake up with hundreds of easy sales. After a few months of frustration and no cash, I realized there ought to be more efficient ways to increase traffic. I now knew I would have to make a more concerted effort to get the results I expected.

I have since this time learned several proven methods that continue to work for marketers. I will now inform you in regards to some great ways that are totally 100% no cost to you to increase traffic for your website. Spending time doing them and doing them faithfully will consistently get you good results.

Reciprocal Linking

Many think this doesn't work but I have many websites that prove otherwise.

Link exchanging has its pitfalls that you must avoid.

Most links pointing to your location will boost your search engine page rank and the search engines will perceive it as more relevant.

By linking to sites that appeal to your visitors you will get web traffic from those visitors, especially if you link to sites associated with your sites content.

You do not want sites that include hundreds or thousands of links on a single page or are very un-organized. Your best links are to sites that maintain a visibly labeled and organized link page.

Do not waste your time with FFA link farms, as this will not get your website any traffic and may get your website banned from the search engines.

Use software to track your link exchanges and regularly check that your link has not been removed from their site.

Traffic Exchanges

Not only is this the simplest way to generate no cost traffic for your website but, you can usually surf for credits and build a down line to receive no cost credits for all the sites they also surf.

Because most folks surf traffic exchanges just to view as many web pages as feasible in the least amount of time only to increase traffic and obtain credits for their website, they are not targeted traffic and often don't even look at your website.

You must be able to quickly grab their attention. How do you do this?

Figure out the market and what type it is. Advertising a website that is of interest to most of the people who are on the exchange will help.

Employ a simple lead capture page that can be quickly read instead of your full sales page. It is easier to get someone to sign up for more information than it is to make a sale.

Writing Articles

Writing articles has two main benefits - adding fresh content to your chosen website and getting links from article directories:

The individuals who read your articles usually will click the link you put in the resource box, sending you web traffic for your site. Create an informative article and individuals will see you as the expert and will have a desire to get more information from you.

Since your resource box is included with your article then, every webmaster that puts your article on their website will now have a one way link on their site pointing to your site. More articles written, means more one way back links to your chosen website and increase traffic. This will over time, boost your search engine position and page rank giving you more targeted traffic.

Forum Posting

Every subject you may think of has many different forums for it.

Most forums allow you to have a signature in your post. This signature needs to include a link to your website.

Consistently visit forums with subjects related in some proper way to your site. Help answer questions and create helpful informative posts.

In short order you will have built trust with other forum members, getting much exposure and possibly thousands of visitors to your chosen website. Forum posts are often indexed by most of the search engines.

Signatures in Emails

Millions of people send out emails every day, but many of us do not have an email signature.

Included with your name should be your signature which is a tag line or some sort of slogan that contains a link pointing to your site.

By keeping it small to the point you will be totally surprised at how many people will click this link giving you website traffic.

Executing these no cost methods repeatedly will get you on your way with no cost web traffic.