Do you know which is the one thing without which your business cannot survive? Yes, it is traffic. No matter how fancy-looking your site is, or how good your product is, if no one knows about or visits your site then your site is as good as dead. Traffic is the one and only thing that keeps a site alive and kicking. In this article, I will discuss three free and powerful ways to generate traffic to your site.

Now, of course, there is paid advertising and there is free advertising. With paid advertising, you will make money quicker than with free methods. Someone rightly told me once that you need to spend money to make money. But let's face it: most people working online don't have the necessary resources to spend thousands of dollars in advertising every month. So they look for low cost or cheap ways to get traffic. If you are one of them don't be disappointed. Below I will enumerate three of my favorite traffic generation methods.

1. Forum Posting: I regularly visit and post in online forums. Forums are really an excellent place to start networking and building communities. If you have a quality product to offer and if you target the right group of people, they will be attracted to your offer. Of course, to attract people, you should post helpful messages in forums, and even more importantly, you should post regularly. Show your expertise in your niche and in no time you will be able to create a group of your own followers. Last but not the least; you should have a compelling signature line to get the maximum amount of clicks.

2. Newsletter: Another way to get free traffic is through your own newsletter. If you not publishing a regular newsletter yet, start one now! Your newsletter doesn't need to be some Pulitzer Prize winner. Just offer good articles and great product offers to your readers. If people are interested in what you offer in your newsletters, they will not only read it regularly, they will also recommend it to others which will get you more subscribers and more free traffic.

3. Article Writing: Writing articles is another way to get free traffic. Article marketing or bum marketing is an old and free traffic generation method that webmasters have been using for years, and surprisingly enough, it still works! How it works is that: you offer quality tips and helpful advice to your readers in your article, and then have a link to your site or newsletter opt-in page in your resource box. If people find your article interesting, they will visit your site and sign up for your newsletter and chances are that, they will buy whatever you have to offer them!

Now, there are two ways you can market articles. One is by submitting your article to high traffic article directories and another by posting the articles on your own blog. I actually do both and have been quite happy with the results.

To summarize, forum posting, newsletter publishing and article marketing are the three traffic generation methods I use to generate free traffic for my site. If you are disappointed with the results of other traffic generation methods or want even more traffic, start using any of my methods and you will see the results within a month!

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