Everyone that has a website needs traffic; the more traffic the better, especially true if you are selling a product. So, how do you go about increasing traffic to your website? More to the point,how do you increase free website traffic... especially targeted traffic? Targeted traffic is that which is specific to your niche. We will endeavor to help you with your traffic in this article.

One of the ways to increase website traffic is by search engine optimizing your website. By doing this you will increase the amount of free traffic that the search engines send to your site. Search engine optimization is not the subject of this article, but there is a lot of information online about this.

Another way to drive free traffic to your website is through classified advertisements. There are a lot of classified ad sites online and a search engine will give you a long list. Most, if not all of these sites, will allow you to advertise for free. Some of these are very good, such as the usfreead site and craigslist. With craigslist you can specify a specific city, state, or country that you want your ad targeted to.

There are also traffic exchanges which allow you to sign up for free and exchange traffic with others that sign up. Basically it is an exchange where you view my website and I will view yours. Whenever you view another site you get credits, each credit is a click for your site. Also, sometimes you can earn credits by referring others to use the site. TrafficSwarm is one of the best of these sites.

Probably the best way to get free website traffic is by writing articles and submitting them to article directories. In this way you will increase targeted website traffic that will be linked to your website through your resource or bio box. Writing articles will also help you build your email list by sending visitors to your squeeze page from your bio box.

The articles that you write should be about some subject that you are familiar with, or are willing to do a lot of research on. Most article directories want articles between 300 and 750 words. Short articles will be read more often than longer ones. You should also be sure when you submit them, that you check the authors terms of service and the submission guidelines of the site you are submitting the article to.

Most article directories allow one or two url links in your bio box. This is how you get the free website traffic from the articles that you write. Try to write and submit 1-3 articles a day. So, get busy and apply some of these suggestions to your website and you will soon see major traffic improvement

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