True Free Methods To Generate Free Traffic

SEO!
Word Of Mouth
Social Networks
Rumor-Controversy - Not My Tactic, but good 'niche'

Article marketing, SEO, forum marketing, guest posting, etc

Craigslist...if done properly and depending on your niche.

I actually still like Craigslist, a lot! You have to be aware of the offer and how it fits into Craigslist itself, but we get really great traffic fro there.

Craigslist, how are you able to post in other areas and have multiple accounts?

Link to my signature leads to WF threads that you should probably check out.

organic SEO traffic

Nothing is truly free in the long run.

Forgot to mention I also use Yahoo Answers

Guest posting? Can you elaborate?

Organic SEO is the best method I have found for natural free traffic to a web site. Article marketing used to be great, but with Google's latest updates it is not as effective. But, the majority of my sales come from email marketing, not natural web site visits. So most of my efforts are on list building, not traffic. Of course lots of free list building techniques will also be driving visits to your web site, where your splash page or optin are located.

I would have to say article syndication.

Hence, guest posting...

Use YouTube to display products or do demos
Great content on you site = Search Engine Love
Pinterest can drive a lot of traffic
Heck, start a podcast

Forum marketing
Blog commenting
Yahoo answer
Video marketing

All these are free but it still takes time to do it

Pinterest is killing it for me at the moment. The trick is to get invites to popular boards and stay active. My business account has seemed to help a lot.

CraigsList, other classifieds, Yahoo Answers are all great sources of free easy traffic.

Calling SEO free traffic considering how much work and time goes into producing results is a bit ridiculous IMO.

kindle reports and social traffic are pretty awesome free ways, strategic partnerships and affiliates have always done right by me.

YouTube has been good to me for around 10 years.
Also ebook marketing works well for me.
Never got any joy from Yahoo answers.

Forums and soloads, adswaps, video marketing, and JV partnerships is what I like to use.

forum marketing and seo

I've look through this whole thread and see that the most effective free traffic methods have been completely overlooked and left out. I will explain some...

1. Mailing to your list. When I mail to my list I can often see results coming in just minutes after starting my email broadcast. It doesn't cost me a cent to send an email to my list.

2. My own affiliate program. I'm building my own affiliate army so they will promote my products and none of that promotion costs me one red cent. I only pay when a sale is made. But you can't really say that costs me because I'm making a profit. Much more profit than the traffic I can create by my self. My business plan has a very reachable goal of having more affiliates in my affiliate program than ClickBank.

3. Joint Ventures. By doing joint ventures you can leverage other peoples circle of influence to get almost immediate traffic to your project. This is people that you would have never been able to reach. I have a list of over 8,700 people who I've done joint ventures with.

4. Ad Swaps again leverage other peoples lists to drive traffic to your project. Again this is free traffic tactic that costs nothing and brings traffic very quickly. I used ad swaps to build my lists in the beginning.

5. Contests. I did a contest that added over 22,000 opt-in subscribers in 60 days.

6. Giveaways. They are not just for list building. I used a giveaway to launch one of my membership sites. Guess what my OTO was after they signed up for the giveaway... I received over 2,000 new paying members.

Mind you, these free traffic tactics bring in highly targeted traffic so conversions are usually higher.

I hope this has been helpful,
Steve Yakim

Social Media (Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Pinterest)
SEO
Forums
yahoo answers
Blog commenting

I personally like to grow my own list of subscribers. When I am growing the list, I will use a mixture of paid and free methods to drive traffic to my website. Once I have mu own list of subscribers, I feel that this is the best form of free traffic as I will be able to control where the traffic will be going. This is the best quality free traffic

Is SEO really hard right now?
I never doing that before, at least some people say SEO today is kinda hard..

Great resources here.
Thanks all for sharing.
Regards

How about Facebook Fan pages? The setting up is free.. Twitter too..
Anymore?

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Jackson Tan

Seeing my question/blurbs are done, I have found that guest posting as well as content curation drive me not only targeted but also a ton of referral traffic.

SEO isnt free...
but social media is a good way to get fast targeted traffic

It depends how much time you want to spend... I saw several mentions of Facebook which is a good way to start. If you already have friends then you can invite them to your site or blog or wherever you are wanting to send traffic.

In the long run though, free traffic will cost you your time.

I've also had some good traffic using guest posting. You need to be consistent with it though by finding blogs to guest post on.

I would imagine if you could find 5 or 10 blog owners who would each accept 1 guest post per week from you then you could start driving some really good traffic. Test and track everything.

Cheers,
Bryan

This is what has worked for me:

Article marketing ( time consuming writing & research )
SEO ( till panda update)
Squidoo lenses ( lost their power)

This is what ROCKS now!

Videosites ( the new article marketing)
Guestposts ( hijack other peoples traffic in trade for contect)
Forums ( sharing great content)
Socialmedia ( I'm not doing it personally but I know it works!)

A few years back I used techniques to get traffic trough Google, and now I'm focussing
more on funneling traffic from high traffic websites.

Word of mouth.. Im running a one page site with no seo or a ton of articles or backlinks.. From now my focus is quality for the visitor that's it. and it workd belive it or not.

I'd go with Pinterest as a great traffic source. You just have to know how to market on it and you can receive thousands of trageted visitors.

make a youtube video about the keword you want to rank for
including your link in the video and in the description
make a lot of backlinks to it so it will rank in the first page of google
after that just get free trafic from youtube