This could be the most popular question by webmasters who are first introducing their sites to the world. Soon after realizing that simply placing your website on the internet is not enough they look for ways to draw in visitors. Without a budget for advertising this seems for many to be an impossible task.

However, I hope with these strategies, you will be able start brigning in the traffic, for free. Before I begin I would like to mention if you think your going to get a lot of traffic for free with no effort then your misled. Becoming successful requires work.

Article Submission: Write a unique and informative article and submit it to article directories. Make sure you place your website like in the articles content. Even if your article isn’t written you’ll have backlinks to help improve your search engine page rank. Submit an article to observin!

Link Directories: Post your link in linking directories such as DMOZ, will again provide backlinks.

Blogging: If you have a website make a blog on it under the same url and continually update it.

Social Bookmarking: The popularity of social bookmarking is continually increasing. Linking to your page or an article in your page and getting it voted on can be a huge boost to your traffic. It is a good idea to post your links in a niche social bookmarking site that is related to your category. Try stumbleupon, digg, reddit, propeller and search for niche social bookmarking sites on google. Observin will soon have a social bookmarking section!!

Free Downloads: Offering free content is a great way to get targeted traffic. Because the viewer is looking through your site there is a better chance they will go to more pages, looking for useful items. If your especially good at making website templates, create some good ones and allow them to be downloaded from your site. You might also free services such as logo designs or advertising banners that users can customize themselves. Get creative!

Page Titles: Write long page titles with keywords your aiming for.

Commenting: Post comments on blogs or sites and include a link to your site (don’t spam).

Keep Updating: You need to constantly update your website and content to keep viewers and search engines happy.

Forums: Post on relevant forums as often as you can and have a link to your website in your signature.

Link Exchange: Try and exchange links with websites (in your niche) that preferably have more visitors or a higher page rank then you.

Leave room for questions: Leave open ended questions for viewers to comment on.

These are so effective strategies that you can use to gain free traffic for your site. However when using these remember not to spam, try and post on relevant sites and keep adding content to your site.

None of these strategies are easy and require effort on your part. If you have any questions visit observin.com

Goodluck with your promotion.

About the Author:

Kyle Thacker is the webmaster of Observin.com a website for site promotion, marketing and developing information.

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