The 2 Types Of Traffic

Traffic is King, as they say. You can either opt for paid traffic or free traffic. Paid Traffic involves paid advertising such as Pay-Per-Click, or link sponsorship on authority sites. The other way is free traffic, which you achieve using various resources.

Various Sources Of Free Traffic

First up we have blog directories. You can have free submissions and also paid submissions. This article will focus only on free stuff. Here are few blog directories you can submit your site to:

- blogcatalog.com
- dir.blogflux.com
- getblogs.com
- globeofblogs.com

Next up we have site directories:

- dmoz.org
- illumirate.com
- wowdirectory.com

Make sure you categorize your site as accurately as possible or your site will be penalized.

Social Bookmarking websites
- digg.com
- delicious.com
- stumbleupon.com
- reddit.com

The most common form – article submission or article marketing

- ezinearticles.com
- articlecity.com
- goarticles.com
- articledashboard.com

Just a few to name. Article submission can also help with personal branding. Really good articles can even go viral.

Social Media websites
- twitter.com
- facebook.com

Spread the news about your website. You cannot spam your website links in twitter because they have a code which prevents google spiders from tracking it. So the best way to market yourself is through word of mouth.

Backlinks

- Link exchanges
- Ad swaps
- Promo emails
- Participation in forums

It is easier to succeed if you partner with other internet marketers.

Last but not least, web 2.0 pages such as Squidoo and Hubpages. It works by making mini websites which can link back to your blog. Web 2.0 pages normally have quite high SEO ranking so getting backlinks from these sites will be great for your SEO efforts.

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