What are the best free ways to draw traffic to your retail web site?

[James Poon]

There are many best free ways to draw traffic to your retail web site.
Professional Webmasters Advice have always been the same.
The once tightly sealed secret has been shared among their peers.
Strategies/tips/ways/methods =
(1) Provide a solution to a problem.
(2) Design your website, integrate with online payment gateway.
(3) Duplicate your effort with affiliate program.
(4) Create more online presence by promoting/publicizing it at:-
(4.1) Search engines,
(4.2) Blogs,
(4.3) Forums,
(4.4) Social networking sites,
(4.5) Press Release Sites,
(4.6) Slide Sites,
(4.7) Link exchange program or backlink services,
and Last but not least, the
(4.8) Free Classifieds Directory or Free Community Classifieds.
You may ask me why? Well, classifieds can be a place to post free ads.
The benefits are many. First it can be free. Next, your website can be easily picked up by search engines.
Your website can be easily indexed by especially Google and other smarter search engines that sent spiwer to crawl the web.
And if you place your url link at top 10 websites that get regularly updated (daily), you website gets picked up in the fastest time.
And also your website can gain better search engine ranking since you are linked to these top 10 classified sites.
Creating brand awareness, getting web traffic and higher ranking takes time, long term planning, hard work and consistent efforts.

Try to google with the following keywords and you will find a good top 10 list of classified websites out there.
Use these keywords when you do your search in the search engines:-
Biggest Classifieds
Best Classifieds
Best Online Classifieds
Free Classifieds Directory
Free Community Classifieds
Community Classifieds
Free Ads UK (if you are targeting UK market as well)
Post Free Ads

If it is internet business or online business related, use the following keywords during your search online:-
Make Money Classifieds
Online Business Classifieds
Internet Business Classifieds
Internet Business 24 Hours
Best MLM Classifieds
MLM Prelaunch