Instant Traffic To Your Site - Free!

It isn't enough if you just put up your website! Among the millions and millions of websites on the internet, your website has to be noticed by surfers. In other words, you need traffic to your website.

People view websites if they know the "url" or somebody refers them so. But generally, people use search engines like Google, Yahoo or MSN (there are several others too) by typing some words, commonly called, "keywords" and "keyphrases" in the search box. The supposedly "best" websites (need not be!) spring up on the top 10 listings.

Anybody would prefer to look for what they want from these top 10 sites. And everybody is trying to reach the top!

Traffic means visitors to your site. One can't earn money, make sales, have subscribers, etc. without a decent traffic. But one needs "targeted traffic". What is targeted traffic? You build up a site on a particular topic and want people with similar interests to come your way. You want to "attract" people to your site. It is like a shop in a mall. If you have a shop that deals with clothes and there are several shops dealing with clothes, you want some people (if not all!) to head your way. You don't want fellow needing groceries to your shop. He is too "general" for you. Further, a lot of shopkeepers are selling clothes, so you have competing shops!

Now you start thinking. You can offer discounts or you can advertise with big banners or show off quality of your products or you can enroll members with "lucky draws" or gifts etc. There is one more way without spending much!

And that is to tell the world about your shop's or product's specialty. Or niche! If you are the only one there dealing with say "baby dresses" and your shop signboard displays so, only the people looking for baby dresses would come to your shop and make a buy. That is to say, your visitors "convert" into your customers. You make money!

There are free and paid methods to drive traffic to your site. Some ways of getting free traffic to your site is by Search Engine Optimization, surfing for traffic, or getting it passively. SEO needs time and a lot of work. When you join sites that are surf for traffic sites, you have to look at other peoples' sites to earn advertising credits. Although the traffic is free, it is not targeted. Everyone who is a member only surfs and very rarely even looks at the sites, they just "finish off" the ordeal of earning credits! Such a traffic is crap and worthless.