Drive Increased Traffic to Your Website for Free

There are scores of websites out there on the Internet who claim they can get you increased traffic for a certain fee, which is usually quite expensive. But, did you know that you also could easily adopt the same techniques as those traffic "gurus" and get your extra traffic without spending a dime? Yes, it will take time and some work from your side, but it is worth the effort. Here are some methods of increasing your website traffic:

Firstly, content is king. If you keep uploading quality content on your website, its popularity will grow and visitors will keep coming back for more – and they might ask their friends to check out your website too. Your content must be keyword-optimized and you must make it a point to ensure that your website is found on the first search results page when the relevant keywords are searched for. Needless to say, the keywords you employ in your content must be relevant to your website.

There are a whole lot of websites that publish well-written articles; they allow these articles to carry a resource box that talks about you and a links back to your website at the end of each article. Even reprint directories accept articles, and you must submit articles to such sites and then other website publishers may pick up these articles and reprint them on their website, increasing the amount of websites that link back to you. Along with your website, you can publish a blog that carries snippets of the latest and exciting stuff happening at your website. Place a link back to your website after each snippet and this too will increase your back links. This exercise will increase your PageRank (PR) with the Google search engine.

Apart from maintaining a blog, you must post information on relevant forums. Forums are visited by people really interested in a particular topic, and if you come across a forum whose theme and content fits perfectly with your website, then you must make it a point to post on it. As in articles and blog entries, always create a link back to your site in your forum signature. This move, like the ones above, will increase back links to your site.

If your website keeps updating information regularly, then you must consider publishing a newsletter or an e-magazine. If you are regular in mailing your newsletter to your subscribers, you will automatically increase traffic by making them come back to your website for more information.

If you can afford it, then you must sponsor a free e-book or a special course for your visitors and their friends. Firstly, people love freebies, and if what you are offering has some solid informational value, then you will get loads of traffic at a very low cost, much lesser than what you were going to pay the so-called traffic experts.

Lastly, if you are selling a product or if your website generates revenue by giving out information, then you must start an affiliate program. Affiliates take your code and put it up on their website and it is your content that is displayed on their website. You can access your affiliates' visitors by sharing a part of your revenue with them (the affiliates).

These are some of the methods you can adopt to increase your website traffic for free.