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We all know traffic is gold mind to any websites success. But how do you get more traffic? One way that most webmasters will immediately “dive in the water” is definitely search engine optimization or SEO. When applies correct techniques, your site will appear in the first page of any search engines results and hence it increases traffic. I think we all know that. However, SEO is actually a slow process. In general, SEO takes at least three months and start seeing an increase of visitors coming to your site. For any online businesses, we all know there is always cost involved and it is quite normal that we want to drive as much traffic as possible in a short period of time.

In this article, we are going to present to you 4 ways of free traffic source besides waiting for your site to be search engine optimized.

Articles Submission to Major Article Directories

Articles submission is a proven way of getting free instant traffic. All you have to do is writing a compelling article about your niche and submit to directories at Ezinearticles.com, Goarticles.com, Buzzle.com and IdeaMarkters.com. When you are writing articles, make sure you always include a link or two reference your site at the author biography box. For the best result, you can offer a free ebook, graphics, or software to your site link and encourage the reader signing up for your gift.

Social Marketing

Social networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter are social networking sites that have most users today. You can set up a group around your niche and invites all like minded people to join you over there. Once you have some members, you can always send them your newsletter.

Email Marketing

Email is still low cost effective way of getting people to visit to your site. If you are working in Internet Marketing niche, you can always get a list of email subscribers by joining Internet Marketing Joint Venture Giveaways, doing ads swap with like minded niche webmaster or ezine owners. But before you do that, make sure you sign up for some affordable and reliable autoresponde services like this one.

Social Bookmarking

When social bookmarking is my last recommending resource but if you do it right, it can drive enormous amount of traffic. Niches like free MP3 download, online pc games, xbox video games kind of thing, should get you lots of visitors in a short period of time. If your site is about online business focused, Digg seems like a good site to focus to. One recommendation for success in social bookmarking is do not ever just bookmark your site. But mix them up with various kind of web sites you’ve found interesting or useful in the online world.

While the sources above can drive you enormous amount of traffic when done right but they are really short term (at most 1 to 2 days) traffic except for article marketing. Therefore search engine optimization is still a more reliable free traffic source which can bring long term free traffic to your site once you have optimized for your site targeted keywords.

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