2 Free and Highly Effective Methods to Drive Web Traffic to Your Website

1. Article marketing. Article marketing–also known by fans of Travis Sago as “bum marketing”–is a tried, true, FREE method to get web traffic to your affiliate marketing website.

So how exactly can you use an article to drive traffic to your pages? The smart-aleck answer is that you don’t use one article, you use scads…

The answer that will help you make money, however, is that you will submit your articles to directories like Ezinearticles.com, Goarticles.com, or Articlesbase.com. People will then read these articles and then have the option to click the link in your author bio–to wherever you want them to go!

This method isn’t quite the ultra-powerhouse it used to be, but it is still valid. After all, plenty of marketers support their families on article marketing alone.

One of the primary benefits for the internet marketing newbies is article marketing’s low cost. Writing your own content costs you nothing but your time. You can also buy good PLR (private label rights) articles for $1-$2 per, usually in packs of 5 or 10.

Just make sure you rewrite the PLR efficiently. EZA hates PLR it so much, they won’t even let you say good things about it in any article you submit to their site! Change it up enough to make it your own to ensure you don’t get your account deleted.

2. Forum marketing. Most (not all) good niches have at least one or two forums where interested people hang out. This can be some of the best free traffic you’ll ever get.

The first step in forum marketing is to help people out on the forum. If you’ve researched your niche properly, you’ll know more about it than most people on the forum you visit. Use this information to answer people on the forum who need to solve problems or just want information.

People can sometimes be pretty unpleasant online when they see that you’ve got something to sell. For that matter, people can be pretty unpleasant online anyway. But some niches are more “marketer (un)friendly” than others, so gauge your tactics accordingly.

Be polite–even if other people aren’t. It will make you look good and keep you from wasting your time trying to prove a point. You’ll keep your blood pressure down if you can remind yourself that these kinds of people are usually just insecure and trying to prove something.

After–and only after–you have proven yourself to be a valuable member of the community, you can add a link to your website in the “signature line” portion of your profile. This will show up every time you make a post, and can drive a surprising amount of highly targeted web traffic to your pages!

In most niches, it’s a bad idea to link directly to a sales page. In some niches, a website may be acceptable–while in others, a link to anything but your blog or twitter account might be suspect. Knowing how people in your niche respond to various marketing tactics is essential to using forums to drive traffic to your website.