Getting free website traffic is easy, but what we all need is not just any traffic. What we need is targeted traffic. For that, the best is free organic search engine traffic.

You must learn search engine optimization (SEO) and apply it. There is on-page SEO which has to do with the right keywords being at the right places in your site. Then there is off-page SEO which has to do with keyword anchored backlinks to your site coming from other relevant sites.

Off-page SEO is more important. You can do this through article marketing. Ideally, your articles should be distributed to as many relevant sites as possible with your keyword anchored links in them.

It is advisable to have backlinks from high PR sites as well as from other sites with different domain names and IP addresses.

To augment your article marketing, you should also try social bookmarking as well as use social media.

There are several other ways to promote your site but the foremost should be article distribution. You get immediate traffic from click-throughs and long-term traffic as you increase in page rank.
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