In an age when websites truly rate a "dime a dozen," discovering a really great website feels more like finding a $10 bill on sidewalk than merely surfing Internet.

Whether their creators did it on purpose or not, virtually all successful websites share following characteristics:

First, every good website focuses on a specific, narrow, "niche" audience.

Imagine difference between a light bulb and a laser beam.

Both provide light, but laser focuses its light with pinpoint precision, while light bulb diffuses its light in every direction.

In other words, successful websites don't try to sell cooking supplies to people interested in latest fishing or hunting equipment.

They specifically provide content on exact topics of interest to their target audience, instead of trying to offer all things to all people.

Second, with exception of personal, family, or hobby websites, every website operates with ultimate purpose of turning a profit.

Unfortunately many websites make this their only purpose and, thus, fail miserably in their attempts to succeed online.

We saw how blatantly greedy, self-centered websites failed in "dot-bomb" era... and it got ugly.

On other hand, successful websites make money as a result of providing products, services, and information of obvious value for their targeted visitors.

They win by putting needs and desires of visitors first and get rewarded in process.

What if I told you there was a way to do this for free, using time it takes you to watch your favorite TV show each week, would you be interested?

I'm sure you would tell me to stop hitting bottle so hard, it isn't possible.

Well you would be wrong on both counts. For starters, I don't drink. Secondly, it is possible to rake in huge amounts of traffic for free.

How do I know this? Simply put, I am living proof it works.

I don't pay a single dime in advertising costs, and it only takes a few hours a month to produce this traffic.

So what is my secret? Reciprocal links!

Reciprocal linking is one of most powerful and effective advertising concepts on Web. Yet it is vastly underutilized by most Webmasters.

I have thousands of links pointing to my site:

http://www.freeclassifiedlinks.com

These links are responsible for 75% of my traffic.

I almost feel guilty that I am able to generate this traffic so easily.

Here is secret to my success: Everything is automated!

I simply don't have time to manually add my partners new links by hand. Therefore, I have a site engine that allows my partners to enter their site information, then tells them how to add my link to their Website.

It is so simple, that I'm astounded more Webmasters don't utilize these techniques.

Here is a quick start guide to automating your linking strategies:

1.) Choose right software

You must have a way for link partners to add their Website information automatically. There are dozens of software programs on Web that will accomplish this.