Free traffic refers to Internet traffic that doesn’t cost anything naturally 
. If this traffic is highly targeted, it is the best traffic you can get possibly get for your website. Websites with enough free targeted traffic are truly goldmines on the Internet. They don’t require marketing expenses and can yield pure profit. These websites are usually owned by popular World companies, top Internet marketers, super affiliates and other online marketing gurus.
Getting free traffic, especially free targeted traffic that can be turned into cash is one of the most difficult tasks you will face in online marketing. If you are a newbie in the Internet Marketing world, you will probably discover countless methods of generating free traffic. Know this that at least 90% of them are completely useless. I’ll discuss some of them later on. Best free traffic comes to your website from natural search engine listings and from links on other popular websites.
Search engines do not charge for their natural listings. Their interest is to offer Internet users ability to discover websites that are highly relevant to their search terms, also known as keywords. They automatically and constantly gather information about current and new websites on the Internet and have complex algorithms that rank all the websites they discover by relevancy to keywords. Every website will be discovered by search engines sooner or later if there is at least one link to it on some other website. The only important question is how well it will be ranked?
If the website is not ranked well, it will be hardly discovered by anyone. Internet users rarely go past third page of the search results and if your website is not ranked on first three pages, you will hardly get any visitors at all. For example, when you search for something on Google, Yahoo, Bing, or some other search engine, how often you go past first page? How often you go past third page? That should give you some idea.
There are ways to improve your website rank for target keywords and the whole process is known as search engine optimization or SEO for short. You can read more about SEO on this website, but if you truly wish to learn the secrets of achieving first page position on major search engines, sign up for our free Exclusive Marketing newsletter (Coming Soon!) if you have not already done so. It will save you months of frustration and show you effective & proven methods of achieving top rankings, thousands website visitors and best money making methods on the Internet.
Besides search engines, free targeted traffic can be generated by getting your website link published on popular and relevant websites. This can be very difficult to achieve for free, because webmasters of popular websites will hardly have any interest to link to YOUR website, unless you provide useful, fresh, interesting, and entertaining content. If you have a commercial website, this will be almost impossible mission.
There are some websites that are very popular and you can post your website link somewhere on them, but generating significant traffic (especially the one that can be monetized) this way can be very difficult, mostly because of the competition and very low interest for commercial content. These include online forums, social network websites (Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, Stumble Upon, etc.) and Internet directories.
Lastly I want to mention certain free traffic generating methods that should be avoided. Some of them are completely useless, some of them will bring you low quality traffic and some of them can even get you in trouble. Traffic exchange programs, ad exchange programs and similar GPT (Get Paid To) programs should be avoided as they generally bring poor quality traffic and will take you a lot of time with little or no results. Know that the time IS money! If some method is taking you a lot of time than it is costly, even if you don’t pay a single cent. Other methods that should be avoided involve some unethical marketing (also known as blackhat in the Internet marketing world) as it is generally short lived and finally e-mail spamming that should be avoided at all costs.
