If you are really determined about promoting your site there are so many free traffic programs that you can join. Yes, they do boost your traffic at first maybe not so significantly but I guess if you have a great site eventually it will catch on because people have to start coming to your site for you to get publicity in any other way.

If you are then able to build an online brand name for yourself, you can make profits there is no doubt about it. And you don't have to spend a fortune doing so, free hits and traffic to your site is not a daydream.

What you must understand is that major search engine algorithms tend to rank your site according to the hits it receives. You can easily find out your site statistics from search engines like how many people are visiting you and how many people link to you.

So the most obvious benefit that a free traffic program will give you is high traffic and more hits that translate to higher search engine rankings that will start off another cycle of site hits. And of course more site hits means that you will have a boost in sales and commissions from any ads or such that you display on your site.

Besides these you can also start to market your site yourself with every possible given opportunity. Free traffic hits will come from the many online discussion boards and online communities that you can join and not only can you answer questions or chat with others to build yourself a credible online presence but also you can discuss your opinions or problems with others and get support as well as study the market at the same time. Leave comments in blogs and guestbooks.

Trade links with other high traffic sites and you will surely get yourself noticed. Just contact another webmaster and they will be more than happy to exchange links with you so both of you mutually benefit from the situation. Link exchange has always been the oldest and most reliable way for link building on the internet.

No free campaign works like article marketing. Write and distribute articles for your niche and soon you will see that your articles are journeying throughout the internet and carrying your link with them. Also submit your sites to all the high traffic web directories but free directories take a lot of time to include your link and are not always used by the average user who will go to search engine first. But there is also a stealth technique here – search engines use high traffic directories to populate their lists and you can try to make your link popular by adding it to as many as possible.

At the end of the day, content is king. Have keywords in your site that will be crawled by search engine spiders and also try to optimize your site as best as possible so that it is perfect for the search engine to pick up the correct keywords and phrases in your content and list you right on top. And yes, that is free.