5 Excellent Ways To Generate Low Cost Website/Blog Traffic

There is an old adage that it takes money to make money. However, it is not necessary to spend a ton of money to obtain traffic to your affiliate internet business online.

These 5 methods will produce free or low cost traffic to your website or blog. Your task then will be to make sure that the quality of your content is good enough so that once the traffic gets there you will have a good conversion rate.

1. Exchange Links

This method still remains quite productive. Nearly every website or blog will have some links to another site. The idea is to get as many website owners as possible to exchange links with your. This will benefit both of you as it will create more public awareness for both sites. Some of the traffic that the other site gets will see your links and some will click through to your site.

When you are looking for other sites to exchange links with make sure that the site is in the same marketing area or niche as your site. If a site on weight control links to a site on gardening, there likely will not be many visitors that click through.

Possibly getting a higher search engine ranking is another benefit of exchanging links. Inbound and outbound subject related links will increase the chances of obtaining a higher ranking in the search engines. Thus more traffic to your website at zero or low cost.

2. Traffic Exchange

With this method you can stay at no cost or you can purchase views. This system is based on earning credits. You earn credits when someone views you site. On the other hand you use credits when you view other people’s sites. So if you buy credits, then someone will view you site until all of the purchased credits are gone.

This method is time consuming unless you have the money to buy credits. Also, it ties you down since you have to set and view sites so that you earn credits.

The down side of this method is that it is not as effective as it once was. However, you can get traffic to your site if you are willing to spend the time or willing to spend the money.

3. Write And Submit Articles

This is probable one of the best free methods for obtaining traffic to your site. There are many article directories that will publish your articles. Of course, you have to spend the time writing your articles and submitting them if you want a no cost option.

On the other hand there are many freelance writers who will write for you. The cost for this is generally fairly small. If you go this route you must make sure that you have total ownership and copyright for the articles that are written for you.

Submitting your articles to all of the directories will be time consuming. However, many of the directories will allow a submission service to submit your articles for you. This is a time saver, but it cost money and can be quite expensive. However, some are also low cost. If you want to trade off time for cost, you could subscribe to one of these article submission services.

With article submissions your traffic comes from the links to your website that are included in your resource box. Interesting articles with good content will increase the chances that viewers will read your resource box and click on your links.

4. Give Away An Ebook

Write an ebook on a subject that relates to the subject of your site. In the ebook place links to your site or products. Then give the ebook away to as many people as you can.

As the recipients of your ebook read it, they will come across the links to your site. When they do some will visit your site. Traffic has just happened. Over time as more and more people obtain your ebook, you will receive more and more visitors – your traffic will increase.

5. Use Social Networks

The various social networks work differently. However, the concept is the same. The network has some way for you to tell the network about your website. For example, you can submit your site to StumbleUpon. Then the members of StumbleUpon will stumble upon your site. As they do they might click to your site. Or, they might tell others that they have stumbled upon your site and the ones they tell might click to your site.

Your only investment here is your time. You share your knowledge, experiences, and expertise and provide links to your site and you get traffic.

These five methods are time consuming but they generally can be implemented for little or at least low cost. And they will all bring traffic to your affiliate internet business online. As the traffic comes you will start to make money online. Your efforts will start to pay off.

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