Free Traffic

There are many different ways you can improve the traffic to your site/blog. Some of these methods include Traffic Exchanges, Pay Per Click, Search Engine Optimization and back links. I will go into further detail with all of them in just a moment.

I want to let everyone know right now that traffic is good but quality traffic and relationships are what matter most in the world of affiliate marketing. You want your viewers to trust you and feel safe when browsing your web pages. If you just have a spammy site that is forcing products down viewers throats then you wont get much of a return rate. If you can get a loyal group of viewers the sales will come in with absolutely no effort.

-Traffic Exchanges
Some people in industry shorten the Traffic Exchange to TE. These types of sites are usually based on a surfing ratio. A surfing ratio is the amount of pages you must surf before the page that you are promoting is shown. So if there is a 1:1 ratio like at Easy Hits 4 U your page will get one view for every page you view, so on and so forth. There are many out there a few that I would recommend and I am a faithful member of are:

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Easy Hits 4 U

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Traffic-Splash

-Pay Per Click
This is an area that is not free.  These types of programs you will actually pay for every click that you want. Usually these sites will charge less than a penny per click but some of the really big ones out there will charge more.  I do not use this method very much because I don't see the need for it yet. But, I will start playing around with some new sites and get some reviews posted here and success rate of different sites.

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 -SEO
Search Engine Optimization is probably the hardest method, but at the same time it is also the best method.  There are many ways to achieve this and get ranked extremely high in big search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and many others.  Once you have a high respected/ranked website you will gain tons of free traffic via the search engines though targeted keywords.  This is an extremely complex subject so stay tuned for further updates on this blog and I will go into more detail...

 -Back Links
Back links will help your site rank higher and in turn generate you more traffic.  Basically, back links are just you placing a link on someone else's web page that points back to yours.  Now this is very beneficial for many reasons. First, the more places you post your link the more others will have the chance to see and click your site. Second, you will have many new traffic sources and further improve your SEO. 
There are many ways you can go about doing this. One of the easiest ways that is not an amazing back link but a very good starting point is social media networks like Twitter and Facebook.  Other good places are forums and blogs.  If you become a high ranked commentator on a popular blog or forum you will get tons of free exposure to the site you are trying to promote. And with that said more free traffic!  

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