Here are 8 ways you can achieve this:

1. Start a blog

Yes, everyone else, including my grandmother, has a blog. You should start one too. A blog is a great way to get your visitors to return to your web site. Especially if you frequently update it with entries that are relevant to your visitors' needs. And also that occasional odd entry on what's happening in your personal life. A blog can greatly increase personal touch of your web site. And your visitors are more likely to come back.

2. Start a forum

An active discussion forum may be all that you need to attract repeat visitors to your web site. You'll generally get two types of visitors to your active forum. a) One who seeks help and b) one who provides help. If your forum is active with these two types of visitors, you can almost guarantee repeat (as well as new) visits for many times to come.

3. Provide a free useful tool

Every one loves free stuffs. Try and provide a free online tool, that's hosted on your web site of course.If your tool is very useful to your visitors, they will come again and again to use this tool. Example of tools include a banner creator, web site popularity checker, or html generator etc.

4. Free Stuff

Let me be completely honest with you, after reading this, I guarantee you will never again have to pay any money to get high quality traffic to your website. And no, what I am about to tell you has nothing to do with emailing safe lists, wasting your time with traffic exchange programs, or any other cheap tricks.

What I am about to explain to you in most simple straightforward manner that I possibly can is by far most powerful way to get most long term high quality traffic on earth. I want you to be able to fully understand elegance of system that I am about to describe to you so I let me first give you a little background.

When I first started to market affiliate programs online I went pay per click route. I didn’t really know what I was doing, but magically it seemed to work. I can’t say that I made much money through pay per click advertising, but I did get some traffic that actually bought through my affiliate links. The main problem with this method was it ended up costing me just as much as I made.

Next I tried to generate traffic free route by taking part in traffic exchanges and mailing to safe lists. I’m not going to even go into detail about these methods because it didn’t take me long to figure out that these methods just don’t work.

Next, I started advertising in ezines. This traffic method does work and can work well, but it can also cost quite a bit of money and does put you at quite a bit of risk. There were times when I was mailing to ezines that cost quite a bit of money and I didn’t even make one sale and then there were other times when I was advertising in ezines that I spent very little and I made some pretty good returns. It’s hit or miss most of time and traffic you generate is only transient.

Next, I decided I would try to start my own ezine. It sounded like a great idea, but it really is quite a bit of work can cost quite a bit of money in early phase if you’re growing your list using co registration leads. Having your own list is a powerful sales tool and I do think that it is something that everyone who is serious about their internet marketing efforts should have, but I truly don’t think it is best way to generate long term hands free traffic.

Why?

Because you have to email your list every time you want them to visit a site. It’s not hands free.

Now, let me get to point…

What’s best traffic secret I ever learned?

Hint: I’m doing it write now.