1. Write articles or free reports for other webmasters to publish and put your website address in by-line. If you write good content, your articles will be published and many readers who like your article will go on to visit your website.

2. Arrange a Joint Venture partnership with List owners and Webmasters.

3. Add your ad or website address to your email signature. This way, every time you send an email, you'll be promoting your website.

4. Exchange Links with Other Webmasters. This is another effective strategy for generating targeted traffic to your website for free. It involves contacting other webmasters for a possible link exchange partnership.

5. Add a blog to your site and Ping weblogs.com and other search engines. Pinging your blogs to search engines is fastest way to get search engine robots to visit your blog and attract new visitors to your web site.

If you have not heard about podcasting yet then it's time to throw away all those useless SEO ebooks and make a start .Of all techniques I have used to build traffic and customers to my sites this one is by far best. By a mile. Podcasting ( a term coined by Adam Curry) is business of attaching an audio file, usually an mp3, to an RSS feed. An RSS feed is a simple XML file that lists content on a site. That content might be articles or news items or perhaps a chat show. It is invaluable in promoting your content if you have a website and equally useful for finding content when you are surfing. If you would like to find out about technical issues of how you make a podcast there are hundreds of articles out there that can tell you how to do it. This article is about my experiences with creating a marketing tool that works.

I started a podcast in April with my colleges called The Explore Your Voice Show. We were new to idea and were rather unsure as to how effective it might be. Our company Explore Your Voice provides a unique singing course that streams straight to your pc which is also available on CD.

The idea was to create a regular show that was about 30 minutes in length containing as much free advice on singing, performing and making music as we could fit in. The concept is strong from a marketing standpoint. You build relationships with your listeners over a period of time by establishing credibility through imparting something of value. Then they convert to buying customers as their confidence in your proposition grows. This needs to be done gradually without a lot of hard sell.

When we launched our first show it was a somewhat nervous affair. We were feeling our way and looking for a formula that would work. The first thing we discovered was that best sort of info podcast is one that is not scripted. It needs to have a certain informal feel to it, like a conversation between close friends. So three of us would get together once a week in evening and talk about what we wanted to discuss. Then we would fire up computer and record a half hour show stopping maybe once or twice to gather our thoughts before pressing on. Then we put some music as an intro and outro, mixed it to an mp3 file and uploaded it to our site. The last step was to update RSS feed with new episode.