20 Ways to Get Free Website Traffic

There is a big misunderstanding all over the internet that if you want to get real traffic, that you have to pay for it. This is not true. If you are wanting to increase the traffic to your website, blog or article, you can do so without spending a penny. Now if you want to advertise your site, you might have to pay for it with companies such as Google Adwords but for just getting traffic to your site, you can do so for free. The problem is that you can tell people all day long how they can get real traffic to their website, blog or article but unless they actually implement the steps, then its useless. Free website traffic doesnt magically appear unless the site has been optimized and linked. The beginning process of getting free traffic to your site starts with keyword placement strategies and ends with back-linking. Keep reading below to learn the best 20 ways to get free website traffic. This process will also work for blogs and articles (Hubs).

The First 3 Steps are to Properly Prepare Your Site to Get Free Website Traffic.

1- Create quality content with proper keyword header tags (H1 and H2 tags) or (Title and Description) tags.

2- Proper website content keyword optimization (Website description and site content).

3- Proper keyword tagging ( Search tags, search phrases, tagging photos and tagging gadgets).

4- Create back-links to your sites from reliable and popular (PR7) sites. This can be done by signing up for a PR7 site and including a link to your site within your profile or your signature. You can also search the internet for reliable or popular PR7 sites.

5- Create back-links from reliable and popular (PR8) sites. This can be done by signing up for a PR7 site and including a link to your site within your profile or your signature. You can also search the internet for reliable or popular PR8 sites.

6- Submit your website, blog or articles to Facebook every time you publish a site or update a site. Also include your sites in your Facebook profile.

7- Submit your website, blog or article to Twitter. Twitter can be a automatic free traffic generator if done right. There are two main keys to getting free website traffic with Twitter. First is to have friends and followers with the same interest as your site. Second is to have just as many followers, if not more, than people you are following. Continuously add and receive followers and continuously submit your sites to Twitter for a funnel of free website traffic.

8- Create a blog strictly for promoting articles and websites and other blogs. Submit each of your article and website URL's to the blog along with a small description of the site. This also creates another back-link.

9- Join Ezine.com and submit your articles to the Ezine directory. Ezine is very strict on their acceptance policies but they are one of the best directories for back-links and free website traffic. Submit a portion of your article, website or blog to the Ezine directory along with your sites URL at the bottom of the post.

10- Submit your website, blog or articles to the DMOZ Directory. They too have a strict acceptance policy. Make sure that you submit your site to the proper categories to increase your sites chances of getting accepted. Another back-link and more free traffic.

11- Submit your sites to the top article directories. The top directories include GoArticles.com, ArticleAlley.com, TheFreeLibrary.com, ArticleCity.com, ArticleDashboard.com, Articlesbase.com, ArticleBase.com and Internetmarketingnewswatch.com. each time that you submit a portion of your website, blog or article to the main directories, you create strong back-links from PR5 and PR6 sites.

12- Submit your website, blog or articles to other reliable free site submission directories as possible. There are many free site submission directories on the internet. The key is to look for reliable directories. You can do a search for "Free reliable website submission directories", "Free reliable blog submission directories" and " Free reliable article submission directories. Submit your sites to as many of these directories as possible to create back-links and get free website traffic. "Reliable directories" is the keywords here.

13- Submit your website, blog or article to reliable forums. Some of the best and most reliable forums to create serious back-links from are: warriorforum.com, BigBoards.com, DigitalPoint.com, WAHMForum.com, InternetMartketingForum.com and AffiliateMarketingForum.com. They key here is to include your site URL with your profile or your signature and submit your sites to the proper sections of the forums. Do not spam the forums with your links.

14- Submit your website, blog or articles to free message boards. The key here is to submit your sites to message boards that are related to your site.

15- Submit your website, blog or articles to free online classified ad sites directories. make sure to include your site in the proper category of the free online classified sites and directories.

16- Submit your website, blog or articles to Technorati.com for a free back-link which will also equal free traffic.

17- Submit your website, blog or article to Digg.com for a free back-link which will also equal free traffic.

18- Submit your website, blog or article to Tumblr.com for a free back-link which will also equal free traffic.

19- Submit your website, blog or article to Propeller.com for a free back-link which will also equal free traffic.

20- Submit your website, blog or articles to the proper sections of the Craigslist.com directory. This is turning out to be a great way to get serious back-links and serious traffic.

The bottom line is to make sure that your site is written with unique and quality content, properly keyword optimized and properly keyword tagged before submitting your sites to create back-links. Back-links equal free traffic but back-links from a site with a high search engine ranking equals more free traffic.