Publishing a website is getting easier and cheaper these days. You can get cheap domain name with affordable web hosting service for less than $100 per year. If you are not a serious blogger yet, you can simply publish a blog for free with Blogger, Live Journal or WordPress.

However, traffic is not something that you can obtain easily. Whether you run a free forum website, a blog, an e-commerce site or an affiliate website, you will need traffic everyday. You want people to read your blog post, participate actively in your forum or perhaps buy something from your website.

For business owners, getting buyer traffic is not that simple lately since lots of companies and individuals are turning to the internet to start an affordable business from home. This is due to fact that starting online business is easier with lower advertising cost.

On the other hand, if the purpose of your website is just to distribute freebies, getting traffic is much easier. This is due to fact that lots of internet users are looking for freebies rather than to buy something. If you are smart, you can use certain social media sites to obtain thousands of free visitors.

1. Facebook website is one great traffic source.

If you don’t use Facebook, you will leave lots of traffic just like that. Based on research, Facebook website is more popular than other social medias like Myspace, Orkut and Friendster. In fact, the traffic volume is even more than giant search engines like Yahoo or Bing. However, if you want to gain more customers to sell affiliate products or services, Facebook is not a suitable channel. It would be better to stick with search engine marketing. Most people browse Facebook to interact and make new friends. They will less likely going to buy something from you.

However, if you want to connect with current customers or perhaps get more people to know your website, Facebook is a good option. There are lots of application that you can use to gain more traffic and build a network with thousands of friends.

After signing up with Facebook, you need to make your profile looks more attractive. This can be done by adding quality pictures and great videos from Youtube. You can also interact with other people on Facebook and add new friends everyday.

2. Learn and implement search engine optimization techniques.

Search engine, whether it is Google, Yahoo, Bing, Altavista, Ask or even Youtube receive billion of hits everyday. You don’t need to invest money to get targeted traffic from search engines. As long as you create relevant content in your website or blog, search engines will reward you with high ranking and traffic.

Another method to get high ranking in search engines would probably to build lots of links to your website or domain name. This can be done is several ways, like posting to article directories, submit to social bookmarking sites and post your videos to Youtube.

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