Free Traffic Generators – Traffic generators like Traffic Swarm can be a great way of just getting people to go to your site. There are some that you can pay for that will guarantee you a certain number of visitors for a set price. Problem is that most of people that are now visiting your site aren’t really interested in your product or service. You might get one or two sales from extremely impulsive buyers but rest only visit to earn credits or something of sort from home site. If you’re going to rely on this type of advertising make sure your visitor/buyer ratio is already high for your site.

Link Exchange – This is by far best way of driving quality traffic to your site…… if you do it right! Before you even THINK about trying to exchange links with other sites there’s a few things you should know…..

1.Download Google toolbar – This way you will be able to tell page rank of any pages you want to exchange links with (higher PR higher in search ranking which means more traffic)

2.Exchange links with only pages of PR 4 or higher. It will help your page more by having a few PR4+ pages linking to you than 10000 pages with no page rank.

3.Build your content FIRST! Don’t expect E-Bay to display your link just because you asked them nicely! Webmasters want to know they are linking to a quality site with a good amount of substance. Focus on building your site before you ask people to link to it.

4.Try to exchange links with other sites that have same key words as yours. Ie: There’s no reason to exchange links with a flower web site if you sell telephone service

The only thing this type of advertising will cost you is a little effort. The greatest part of it is that people that visit your site are people that are actually interested in your product or service, not just people stopping by to earn credits…… and you don’t pay a cent. There are many books and sites on web that can give you more details on how to effectively exchange links to your benefit.

Hopefully these tips have helped you narrow down best type of advertising for your site. The one thing that hasn’t changed in transition from regular to internet marketing is that you never really know what will work best for you until you try. Don’t be afraid to get your feet wet and see what you like!

GOOD LUCK!

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