Generating Traffic to one's website?

[Martin]

There are several ways to generate traffic to your site which you can do yourself for free. I have been marketing sites since the late 90's and I very rarely pay for anything. Especially from services such as Market-it. If they were really that good it would cost much much more.

The first thing you need to do is your keyword research. What are the keywords / keyphrases in search engines where you need to rank in order to pull in the traffic. This is obviously heavily dependent upon the type of site you are operating. You can use the Google Keyword Tool to get started, it is of course free and the link is in the sources box below.

Once you have your list of keywords you then need to start building links using these keywords as your achor text. There are many free ways you can do this too.

- Directory Submission
- Article Marketing
- Blog Commenting
- Account Profiles

Once you start building links to your site you will see your site start to rank for the terms you have targeted in the search engines and then you will start to get more and more traffic.