When people are starting their online businesses, they need to drive traffic to their
websites ASAP.
However, in most cases, people do not have the money to pay for advertising.

There are many ways to drive traffic to a website, depending on your budget and the time you have available to work on building your online business.

Here are just a couple low cost ways to generate traffic to your website.

1.      Offer free reports and content.
Giving away some freebies and including your website URL in those freebies is an effective and low cost way of building traffic to your website. You can write some useful short reports with your website link in them and offer those reports for free on a website where you ask visitors to leave their email address before they download the free reports or articles. This means you can give away the report with your URL and also build a list.

2.      Blog!  Blogging is a very effective way of building traffic to your website.
On your blog, you can discuss your website’s products and services and add some links to your website.
You can also answer any questions your prospects and customers may have.
By blogging regularly, you will have fresh content that may get your website indexed by search engines and rank higher on these search engines.
This increase in visibility will increase your overall website traffic.

3.      Publish your own newsletter.
Having your own newsletter where you offer free tips and content on a regular basis can help to increase traffic to your website dramatically.
Your newsletter should have links to your website, so your readers will also visit your website.

4.      Join a forum related to the products or services you sell on your website.
By answering questions and helping people in your niche on a related forum, you can drive traffic by adding your website URL in your signature in the forum posts.
Be genuine and avoid spamming just to get your link seen! Trust can go a long way, so build relationships and be helpful whenever possible.

5.      Exchange links with websites that have high popularity (PR) rank.
All you need to do is to find websites that are related to what you offer on your website and exchange links with these sites.
This is particularly effective if the websites have high page rank on search engines.
By doing this, some traffic will come your way through the websites you are linked to.

6.     Join a free Traffic Exchange.
The way they work is very simple. You add your website and view sites belonging to others in exchange for credits.
You assign these credits to your own website, where others view your site and so the same.
If you join Traffic Punk today and mention this blog post, I will give you 100 credits to get started

These are just some basic, easy ways you can start driving traffic to your website.
More traffic means more sales and profits for your online business.

‘til next time,

-Ryan

For any online business to succeed, it is absolutely critical to have traffic.
Without traffic, a website will not make any sales and the online home business will fail.
It is therefore important that you know how to drive traffic to your website.

You can increase website traffic on any budget and I’ve included 8 quick and easy ways below:

1.      Provide fresh, unique and useful content on your website.
People go online to look for information and also buy what they need.
It is therefore important for you to have high quality, unique content on your website so that visitors to
your website will spend more time on your website, bookmark your website and also buy from you.
In addition, if you have lots of useful information on your website, you will be considered as an expert in
your niche, and you will therefore easily get customers.

2.      Optimize your website for search engines!
This one is often overlooked. In order for your site to be found on the search engines when people are
looking for information, make sure that your niche keywords and phrases are in your headlines and in
the rest of the content on your website.
This will help your website rank higher when people look for those keywords on your website, and this
will drive more traffic to your website.

3.      Use PPC (Pay per Click) advertising
If you have the money to pay for the advertising, you can run an advert with Google Adwords or
Yahoo to increase website traffic.

4.      Write and submit articles
This is a very powerful tool for driving traffic to your website. In all your articles, make sure you have a
resources box or author’s biography which will your website’s URL.
After reading your article, people will want to visit your website, so the more articles you write,
the more traffic you will drive to your website.
A list of recommended article directories can be found in my free ebook, Affiliate Jumpstart.

5.      Participate in related forums
This is one of the most effective ways of driving traffic to your website.
Make useful posts in the forums that are related to your niche, and have your website link in
your signature.
Never join or contribute to a forum for the purpose of spamming. Get involved!

6.      Use viral marketing techniques
Write free e-books or short reports with a link to your website.
Have a link to your website on your blog and on any press release that you write.
Also, it is easy to rebrand ebooks from other authors if they provide the option.

7.      Use video marketing.
You can create a video about your product or service that you offer on your website and
post that on YouTube.
Add your website link on that video, and this will make sure that people who view your video will also
visit your website.

8.      Use Manual Traffic Exchanges.
Last, but not least, another great way to get the word out about you and your website, is to
use a manual traffic exchange.
They are very easy to use, have a targeted audience and most are free to join.

That’s it for now. Hope you find some of these useful.

-Ryan

Hi everyone,

Happy Valentine’s day!

As you may or may not have already noticed, things are suddenly looking much different around here
at TrafficPunk.

Some of the changes:
Besides a complete redesign and a shiny new paint job, a few more recent improvements have been made
which include:

Dynamic surf ratios
Custom, redesigned surfbar
improved user navigation
URL Rotator for all users
Complete affiliate toolbox
Affiliate commissions are now being offered (up to 40%!)
Reduced Premium member pricing

Trafficpunk is also now on a modified version of the popular “lj” script, which will make admin tasks much
much easier for me as many problems with the older script have now been shed.

All Traffic credits, banners and impressions have been moved over to the new script but please keep in mind
that 50% traffic credits will be auto-assigned to your websites.
your old affiliate links will still work too-
We’ve set it up so your old links will automatically redirect to the new ones, so you won’t lose any
direct referrals in case you still happen to be using your old referral link.

Log in As soon as possible!
If you have sites that remain unverified, now is a great time to log in, take a look around, verify your sites and
enjoy the new dynamic surf ratios!

New Promotional materials:
A couple new splashpages, banners and pagepeel ads are now available too with more on the way, but you are welcome to promote now if you like.

Relaunch is coming this March!
Keep your eyes peeled for important updates and new, special offers!

Your feedback is important to me!
If you would like to offer feedback, questions or comments, please feel free to either do so here on the blog
or contact me through the new helpdesk by clicking the contact button on the top of the site.
==>Im offering prizes for great testimonials too

Thanks for reading and have a great day!

Ryan Hogan
www.TrafficPunk.com