TRAFFIC: What is the best non-paid way to get some just starting out?

^^^^ That one right there: Your signature! It is a brilliant way to drive traffic to your site/blog/optin form. If you are looking for IM related traffic, posting helpful posts here on WF can help drive very targeted traffic. If golfing traffic is required, a golfing forum that allows sigs, etc...

As I have mentioned, forum traffic is very targeted!

Here's one thread on the subject that's on the board now, and there are literally hundreds of similar threads to be found if you simply use the 'search' facility on the menu bar.

yahoo questions:
go to yahoo questions and answer questions and then leading people to your link.

Signatures on forums where you are active and of course engaging in social networks is a great way to get starting traffic.

-Forum marketing: Join a forum in your niche. Contribute to the forum with top notch content.Solve peoples questions. Be consistent. Make a plan on how many helpful posts you will make each day,and follow that plan. Do this and you will slowly become an authority person on the forum. When you get to that point,people will click your link in the signaturebox like a monkey on speed.

Youtube marketing: Create quality videos in your niche. You can make "talking head" videos where you discuss general problems within your niche and how people can solve them. If you don`t like showing your face on cam,you can make slideshows and talk your audiens through it step by step.Do some SEO and backlinking(thats another topic) on the video and share it on social media and forums. In general,embed your videos to as many sites(related to your niche) as possible. Offcourse: Provide a link to your site in the resource box.

Yahoo answers: Sign up to yahoo answers and start answering questions(it doesn`t have to be in your niche yet as are goal is to reach level2). Don`t provide links to your page before you reach level 2. (Your links isn`t clickable before that anyway). Once you are on level 2,you can start answering questions in your niche. Always write long,quality answers. Don`t throw in links in every answer. If you do,you will soon get flagged and possible your account gets deleted. I normally provide link in 2/10 answers.

Facebook: Make a fanpage. Invite all your friends and encourage them to invite their friends. Spread the word. Deliever quality stuff on the fanpage and people will start visiting your website. Note: You will get a lot of likes from people that aren`t really interested in your niche,but as time goes and the word is spreading you will create more and more targeted traffic.

There is no such thing as free traffic. Traffic either costs you some dollars or it costs you time and energy. So it depends what value you put on your time. What I do know is that I didn't start making good money online until I decided to value my time. I can buy 100 clicks for $15 - $40 and its targetted. If it only took me an hour of faffing about to generate the same number of clicks then I am only valuing my time at $15 - $40 an hour.

If you undervalue your time like this you'll keep yourself held back from generating the income you deserve.

Andy

Attack the social media sites and add followers and likes. If you do targeted searches for each social media site you should be able to find people in your niche.

Create Youtube videos about your site and post them.

Go to high ranking forums and post at those places. Make sure you have your links in your signature if it is allowed.

Do guest blog posts on high quality blogs that get lots of traffic. Also, post comments on high ranking blogs. Make sure you don't spam, though.

Use good white hat keyword optimization in every page of your website. Google is about quality content and if you don't have that, you don't have good rankings.

One other thing I forgot. This might not drive traffic, but if you are struggling, find mentors that have been successful in this business. Many people love to be asked for advice and this forum is definitely a good place to be.

A good mentor can take you down the path of success pretty quickly.

YouTube is my absolute favorite way to get free, highly targeted traffic...

I have never seen better free traffic than Face Book fan pages and You Tube Videos or at least these 2 work very well for me...

There is no such thing as free traffic ! You will pay for it with money or your time nothing for nothing in this world.
See I always looked at the big picture and the internet loves speed and free traffic is slow and paid traffic I could have hundreds of targeted visitors to my site in minutes.

The fastest way to get some free traffic and targeted to your site is video marketing .
Start making some real good videos and share them all over the place also if you do it right you can rank them for your keywords real quick which is another plus.

What's considered a good video. I honestly don't know much about video marketing. so what, do you just talk about the product you're working with? Or what sort of content do you put in your videos.

Forum and blog commenting are good ways to drive super targeted traffic. The reason being you can choose what to comment on and it can be closley related to your site.

Don't forget to collect email addresses and build your email list so that you may use the traffic that your blog will get once, multiple times.

You should offer a free ebook from the beginning. Don't lose your first visitors. You will need subscribers when you will have something interesting to promote to your list.

If you cannot write an ebook yourself you can be helped by a writer, it won't be expensive. You can also write an ebook yourself and send it to an editor for corrections and improvements.

It’s good idea to write an ebook about your frustrating experiences, opening the eyes of the newbies who believe that making money online is simple, and them, show them that now you have found the solutions (I hope you really did).