Top Five Free Traffic Strategies

by Alando OConner

Anyone who knows anything about business knows that traffic is the key to success online. It doesn't matter how great the product or opportunity that you are promoting is, if no one ever sees or knows about your product or opportunity, you will never make any money. So traffic is very important to your success.

So traffic is important but many brand new marketers don't have the money to cover the cost of paid advertising. Here are my top five free traffic generation techniques:

1. Social Media Marketing - Social media marketing is the "word of mouth" of the internet. This strategy involves utilizing sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and Youtube to market your business or your products. These communities are filled with millions of members and have bee proven to produce great results.

2. Article Marketing - Article marketing is a type of advertising in which businesses write short articles that related to their respective industries. These articles are used to promote products and inform the readers about topics in their area of expertise. Article marketing is very profitable and is overlooked by many online marketers.

3. Forum Marketing - Forum marketing is a type of advertising in which marketers post to forums related to their respective industry in an attempt to draw people to their website. Forums can be used to establish the marketer as an expert and generate a solid traffic base. Many forum threads get indexed by the search engines and get a lot of traffic.

4. Social Bookmarking - Social bookmarking is a method in which internet users become members of a community in which they share, organize, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web resources. In a social bookmarking system, users save links to websites that they want to remember and share.

5. Blogging - A blog is a website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, description of events, or other material such as graphic or video. Business owners often use blogs to market their business. Blogging is arguably one of the best and most efficient methods to market online.

These are my top five free traffic generation techniques. If used correctly they can dramatically increase the results of any online business.

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