Whats Your Favorite FREE Traffic Source??

Forums and Slideshare

Blog comments are great too once you get rid of the idea that they are only good for backlinks.

I'm not really sure yet. I would really like to just buy it and turn a profit. That's so much simpler. I guess unless you outsource it. But probably content publishing and getting in front of someone's audience is the good old standby.

They won't punish you. It just won't be a relevant website so it won't add as much weight.

posting links to your posts in FB groups is an amazing way to drive free traffic if you put in the effort to find large active groups and not spam the heck out of it.

KDP Select days are INSANE for free traffic. Where else can you get 5,000 - 10,000+ eyeballs on your content within a week for free?

YouTube is definitely my favorite source of free traffic especially when you get good at ranking your videos on the first page of Google!

Posting offers to my thousands Tagged friends, thousands of Myspace friends, Facebook friends, Twitter followers, etc. is 1 of my favorite sources of free traffic. Took a while to get all those friends though...

Placing free classified ads on Backpage, CL, USfreeads, OLX also is a fave of mine.

YouTube, Scribd, articles with low competition keywords posted on Web 2.0 sites also get some traffic.

My consultant has been putting together this system that combines Facebook, blog curation, authority site forum and a gated web network, with a second stage coming focusing on YouTube and the like. It looks pretty good so far, but it is a large project and took a bit of patience. It is picking up good steam, though. The idea is not to have to count on search traffic but take advantage of it with your own network.

Just my 2 cents

Free traffic is not my favorite.

The most hatred, and the most unrecommended for the most of IM -> Search Engine Traffic!

I think YouTube is a great source for free traffic. Yahoo answers can also be useful. However, nothing beats organic search traffic from Google.

Solo ads and Affiliates have to be the best leverage, best traffic source

My personal favorite "traffic" at this time is Facebook that is free and works. I started a group today...made a post in a bunch of groups and I did get people joining my groups.

To me, that says it works.

At the end of the day, how many signups will it lead to.

That is the value.

Manny

I'm with you on Facebook and YouTube for favorite FREE Traffic Sources.

Gotta love free stuff.

If I have to choose 1 free traffic source to use, I would go for Google Alerts.
I'll tell Google Alerts to send me related keywords pages and I'll leave a
quick comment on the pages. It is normally Yahoo answers, Blogs, and Forums.

StumbleUpon!

Building a great follower list on Twitter

RickCopy - Don't want to hijack the thread, but I put a link to an opt-in page in the first few pages of the book. If they opt-in, they get a free instantly delivered ebook in the same niche. It's extremely effective.

There is nothing like FREE. It means you have to work very hard to get the desired results. Here you are investing your time. Do you think that your time is FREE?

I've found Facebook and forum posting pretty effective of free traffic sources.

social mediai i prefer stumbleupon

I would say facebook and twitter. You get a lot of traffic since it has a wide range of users. It is a great way for people who are in business and marketing. Pinterest in the other hand has a lot of good review. I am still trying it out.

My favorite free traffic source is social networking sites. I simply love it when someone from Facebook or Twitter clicks on my link and visits my website.

Traffic exchanges sometimes work.

My best traffic source is blogging, document sharing sites, podcasting sites, free press release websites, free classified ads and social bookmarking.

Twitter actually

Pinterest！

Forums and Traffic exchange are the Good Free Source of Traffic at my point of view. It also helps me to generate some leads and sales.

As of 2013 Pinterest is my favourite, have you tried it?

Well Google is probably my favorite traffic source, since SEO is probably the only thing that can drive consistent traffic each and every day to your website, even if you don't do anything.

Traffic Exchanges are by far my favorite, although I pay for credits not instead of surfing for free traffic. I started with free traffic, but built my list to a self-sustaining point and now I don't have to surf anymore.

Benjamin Ehinger

I would say twitter and I have to agree with you on facebook. These two are one of the biggest networks online. This will give you a larger market since most of everyone is in it. Social media might be a very small thing to other businessman however it does make a huge impact to our business

Craigslist! You can get a lot of traffic, subscribers, and customers!

Facebook fanpages are awesome - you can create an app in there to promote your product but building your identity gets you a more authoritative position

For a long time free targeted traffic, i prefer optimize my websites for search engines and consist on building and gaining quality baclinks, but for quick and fast results i thinks Social Media is the best free traffic source today especially "YouTube"

Best for me are Stumbleupon, Linkedin and Twitter.

Pinterest is one of my favorite traffic source. Also Blog Commenting, Guest Blogging is on the list.

SE traffic, by far.

My favorite traffic source is a word of mouth referral from a popular blogger. That's provided you're sharing something worth sharing.

JustRetweet and ViralContentBuzz are good free sites for promoting good content as well.

YT and Slideshare is my best free sources. They generate a ton of traffic and are very easy to rank

Youtube is my current favourite

Without a doubt - getting guest post in a relevant niche with a popular website. I find sites, give them free high quality content with a link back, many pieces of content continuously bring in 100+ uniques a day, from just 1 piece of content. Easy Piezy!

Definitely Google!

Pinterest works for me ...

Google, Facebook and forums are my favorite traffic sources.

Pinterest here too.....easy to do and you get some decent traffic back...doesn't melt the servers but every little counts.

here is a really good secret for newbies to know.

There is not such thing as free traffic. You either pay for traffic with our money, (this stuff takes time)

Or....

You paid for FREE traffic with you TIME (this is something you can never get back)

Just so you know I get massive results with paid traffic with bing, yahoo, facebook....they are the best paid traffic I think.

I do not know any gurus that kill it with FREE traffic, they sort of laugh in a way at free traffic, sorry to say, they all do pay traffic cause they know its high quality and scalable traffic fast.

In saying that u need to realise I am not against FREE traffic, as I have used it over the years and youtube videos bring in for me, very high quality subscribers who buy. So I am not against it, however I would say PAID traffic is the way to go if you want to take your business to the next level.

Facebook is the best source to get much free traffic

Facebook, Youtube, Forumsigs, Blogcomments
and in paid form
Banner ads, Solo ads.

I like Facebook and Pinterest. Facebook Ads are a great way to get traffic as you can target your market and need not be expensive. Pinterest is much underrated but its members are mostly there to buy.

i like youtube!!!

There is no such thing as free traffic.

Sorry, just being pedantic. But seriously, think about it.

1.Twitter
2.Youtube
3.Facebook
4.Forums

Facebook with targetted liked is also powerfull source traffic.

Search Engine Traffic!

SEO
Forum
Video
Social media

for me facebook and youtube are the best way

Forums and Facebook.

If you post on forums related to your sites niche and provide value to the community then you can get a lot of targeted traffic. If you have a fan page on Facebook with a lot of targeted likes, then you can drive a lot of traffic to your site through that too. There are other sources I use such as Youtube and Twitter, but I find Facebook and forums the easiest.

for me ad swaps and social media interaction.

Facebook without a doubt these days!

Thanks
Chris

I like Youtube, Slideshare, and Yahoo Answers.

SEO and social networks are my favourite form of free traffic

Guest blogging.

Even those that don't advertise accepting guest articles may be open to the idea if you give them a reason why they should.

For example, you can:

- Trade articles with the blogger (so that they get to post an article on your blog too).

- Use the blog owner's affiliates links in your article, so that they make money when their readers buy a product.

- Offer something else attractive in trade, such as an endorsement in your newsletter.

Any sort of social media, really can do the trick. The BEST traffic source of course, are search engines.

At present I am getting more traffic from Google Search and Facebook.
But I am more inclined to get more traffic from youtube, linkedIn and twitter.

YouTube and Facebook are some of my favorites as well.. I've also seen some great traffic from Pinterest and Stumbleupon. but obviously with anything you have to build out your profile and followers, etc.

So Far, my favorite free traffic source comes from free solo ads. I send out at least 20 free ads at once, that go out to as many as 70-100k total readers. Depending on the day of the week - WEDs most the time- I will generate great traffic that turn into some signups as well.

I think that one of the best sources for free trafic is Facebook. but, you can also try Youtube and Twitter.

For me it's social media in general. Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest for some projects

Using Fb to build relationships and then make them your followers.

Wouldn't it depend on your niche business?

But FB is a beast for paid traffic.

Definitely Facebook, and you can't beat the organic traffic from Google...

Great free traffic costs time, not money!

Forums, the internet equivalent of "word-of-mouth".

I've had success with a safe list called listjumper.com it's the most responsive, I always got at least 3 - 6 leads a day, and they're all buyers of some kind of affiliate program and don't know what they're doing just following directions.

I've some large sales there too, other safe list I stopped messing with but that one was always good to me.

I like to link to my blog/my WSO from my signature box on various web 2.0 websites.

Because of the inherent search engine authority of those sites, with a little SEO/LSI sprinkled in, I can generally get some nice free traffic from people finding those articles in search....and, then clicking through the links in my signature box. It's not rocket science, and it's a great way to get free traffic.

There are number of free traffic sources such as eBook traffic, Q&A traffic, Pinterest.com etc.

I like building a real following on Twitter and then driving traffic with it.

If people are following you because you've targeted a niche and are providing value, they will click your links.

Clarification:

What I mean is...say you want followers who are into tennis. You make your handle something like tennisauthority or w/e, and you tweet high value tweets to hashtags related to that niche. Do it consistently and you'll amass actual followers who are more likely to be receptive to your links. Then just don't spam. Keep it at a 1/5 ratio between promotional and non-promotional links.

It takes time but it's worth it.

word of mouth

Funny, no-one mentions this. Stuck on g,f.b.articles, youtube, etc.

so are 1,000,000+ other businesses.

long term pretty good. Like F.B.

Faceboof and YouTube are my favorite sources of free traffic, but you can also try Titter, Myspace and OLX.

I am getting the most free traffic from forums and Facebook at the moment.

My next step is to start in video creating and start bringing in some YouTube traffic.

Besides placing free online classified ads on CL, Backpage, USfreeads, OLX and other sites, which I mentioned before, another good way is to create a Facebook page for your blog(s) and then find Facebook pages similar to yours and make helpful comments on them and leave the link to your own Facebook page (which will have links to your blog).

Another way is to distribute documents (can be 3 or 4 page ebooks you create from PLR articles) on Scribd and other document sharing sites. In your documents you distribute, ask readers to Tweet your document to their own followers or share it on Facebook.

Two words...Warrior Forum

#1. SEO
#2. "Sharing Networks" such as Fark, Reddit, StumbleUpon
#3. Forums
#4. Social Media (and YouTube)
#5. Guest posts

Honorable Mentions:
Offline Marketing, Word of Mouth, Free Ad Credits (after buying some)

This very forum.

I can't even begin to explain how much FREE traffic I've gotten from here by just participating in conversations and making friends.

SEO is good also

I tried youtube traffic, didnt get much clicks. So, last night i was thinking of buying youtube adspace. At least, click is guaranteed.

Article marketing and Facebook.

Pinterest and StumbleUpon

Facebook groups

- SEO traffic from YouTube, easy and massive autopilot traffic after a while
- forum marketing works really well
- safelists work very well for me

on the other hand social media is a complete waste of time, for me, we are all different......

Never underestimate the power of video and forums combined. tried a product? Make a short video review of it and make it honest. If it's crap say why you think it's crap, you don't have to sell all the time. Reputation and honesty will get you far. If you have taken the time to make a video that saves people money because they were going to buy junk, you get the credit for that.

You may annoy some product owners along the way but sorry, release sub-standard products and you will get exposed, it's how it should be but does not mean you have to be nasty about it.

Got an amazing product, let people on related forums know about it. They are as targeted as you will get and they will appreciate your effort. The traffic built on trust and gratitude is already warm. It's so simple and so few people do it.

Amazon for ebooks is another great one and I have seen some amazing results with slideshare. High PR e-book sites can also help you rank exceptionally well.

I have been doing forum marketing, social media marketing (mainly Facebook), blog comments, and guest posts. Seems to be working. No incredibly mind blowing traffic stats yet but the traffic is steadily increasing.

I believe it is hitleap pretty decent site can get 1000's of visits in a hour, would recommend to anyone to use it.

I say social media is a fast and easy way to drive traffic. Forum posts or blogs work well for me.

Forums and social media nowadays seems to give traffic more instantly..

All social networking sites has its own way to increase the traffic..

Pinterest and Facebook are the Good Free Source of Traffic for me.

I prefer Forums and YouTube.