One of the main factors that will either make or break a website, is traffic. No traffic, no sales = no money for you! We don't want that. Another main factor to website success is your product, which I will get into later. But for now, here are the 5 ways to drive visitors to your website:

Blogs are your own web diary where you can write interesting articles for readers. The articles need to have good content, and be of good length. They also need to be interesting. These articles you made can contain your link in it, which is called a backlink. Backlinks can help you improve your search engine ranking. The more searches your website gets, the more visitors, the more money! Register your blog on http://www.blogspot.com and Google will promote your blog in 2 days with RSS feeds.

Forums are a good way to promote your website too. You can talk with people, ask and answer question. You can learn tons of information in forums. And there is a forum for everything you can think of. There are thousands! Make sure you include your link in your signature block of each post.

Viral Marketing is an oldie, but a goodie. You can give away something like an e-book or hold a contest. Give away an e book on your website and have a couple of links and a full-page ad in the back for your product. Grant permission to your readers to give away the book and see this promotion snowball.

Social Marketing is a newer form of traffic generation. A great example is MySpace. Myspace is being used as a popular way of marketing products and services. You can even make a profile for your product.

Article Distribution is a very powerful way to promote your business/product where you can write interesting articles for your readers. It is similar to blogging, but you write one article at a time and submit them to article directories. It will bring tons of visitors to your site. If you want to save time, visit my website at the bottom of this article to get a list of the best article directories, 100% free.

I know I said 5 ways to generate traffic, but I'm on a roll here, so I would like to include another great way to boost your traffic. Directories. Submit your link to directories. There are many free directories, and even more paid directories. Submit to a lot of free ones at first and then submit your link to a few paid directories. You can find a list of the good free and paid directories on my site.