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Yes You Can Generate Free Traffic

By Jo Mark

One of the most difficult (or expensive) aspects of running an online business is generating traffic. Traffic is necessary to achieve any kind of online success. It is the brick and mortar equivalent of walk-in customers. And without it you don’t have a business at all.

So how do you get traffic coming to your site? Of course, there are thousands of ways. The traditional ways are obvious. You can advertise on other websites, TV, radio, or in newspapers. You can use solo ads, ezine ads, classified ads, or pay per click ads. All of these methods will get you traffic, but, unfortunately, the all cost money.

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Tags: free, Traffic

A Secret You Must Understand About Affiliate Marketing and Traffic Exchanges

By William Hutchinson

Two industries that are often misunderstood are affiliate marketing and traffic exchanges. Let’s take a look at how you should use both to make more money online.

We could probably summarize this article in one sentence: When you use traffic exchanges, go for the lead as opposed to going for the sale. What we mean by that is promoting your affiliate marketing website is not the best way to utilize traffic exchanges.

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Tags: affiliate, traffic exchange

Drive Free Targeted Traffic From Search Engines With Keyword-Rich Domain Names

By Bryan Hufford

We are always looking for ways to increase traffic to our website for free. Did you know that some of the best, free, targeted search engine traffic can result just from your domain name alone? Domain names that are keyword rich or specific to your niche can result in higher rankings on the search engines. And higher rankings means more targeted traffic to your website, completely free.

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How to Get Inbound Links from Government and University Sites

By Deepak Dutta

The inbound link is the holy grail of Web traffic. Getting inbound links from government and university sites is a testament to the quality of your site.

You accumulate inbound links not only to increase traffic, but also to establish your site for providing high value to visitors. However, getting inbound links by link exchange or buying text links is not going to get you anywhere. You need to abandon those archaic ideas and jump forward with an inbound link strategy that provides high value authoritative links.

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Tags: inbound links

Low-Cost Online Advertising

By Matthew Giovanisci

With the popularity of Google AdWords, many businesses are turning to paying for top placement on search engines. This is a surefire way to get exposure, but who wants to pay all that money? I was paying about $5.00 a click for a swimming pool website in the winter! So I put together this short list of free advertising possibilities to market your website.

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Tags: advertising, free, promotion

Web Trend Map 2007 v2.00

This is cool: a very nicely designed map of “[t]he 200 most successful websites… ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective.”

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Online Easter Eggs

These are “secret” hot links on your site that lead to something of value (free download, free access, etc.) to whoever finds and clicks on them. Potential big traffic draw if word gets out.

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