Driving targeted traffic to your website is essential in order to bring in the sales necessary to create an income online. Using these four techniques, you will not only directly drive traffic to your site, but at the same time, you will be creating an effective strategy to gain higher placement in the major search engines infinitely increase your websites traffic. . .and all for free!

Article Submission

Submitting articles to article directories is fast becoming one of the most popular and effective ways to market your website online, and for many reasons. By writing articles about specific topics that relate to your website you are establishing yourself as an expert in the field. You will also have the opportunity to add a link to your website in the author or resource box, driving traffic to your site. Another key advantage is that websites looking for content will have the opportunity to place your article, with the link to your website, on their site. These links will stay on their website for years. Over time this creates a large number of links to your site, increasing your page rank and visibility in search engines.

Forum Participation

Regularly participating in forums can also establish you as an expert in your field. By participating in forums that are related to your website, you gain the trust of the other forum’s users. Trust in you and your website will result in more traffic and sales. When participating in forums be sure to add a link to your website in your signature file. This will let readers know where your website is located, and also create more links on the internet to your site.

Create Your Own Blog

Another effective way of building trust and becoming an authority on your website’s topic is to launch your own blog. Blogs are also frequently picked up by search engines since the content on them is usually fresh and up to date giving you exposure to your target market. Also, by publishing your articles on your blog will also create more links back to your website, increasing the page rank of your website as well.

Linking Campaign

By creating a linking campaign, you can dramatically increase the number of links on the internet that direct users to your site. As demonstrated in the above strategies, the more links that point back to site, the higher your page rank, and the higher listing in search engines resulting in more targeted traffic. Linking is easy, yet can be time consuming. For sites that offer links simply use your favorite search engine, and use keywords such as “add your link". You will see that millions of sites are available to add your link to.