If you don't know by now one best ways to attract free traffic to your site is with articles. You find them in your email. You find them on any website that provides useful content. Take a look and you will see they are all formatted same way.

Attention-getting headline

Body of article ( usually offers tips or how to information)

Resource box - That is at end and involves a blurb to plug your site or product and your link(s) I'm sure if you think about it you can come up with some ideas of your own for great articles. A good place to start: What is it that you would really like to know? Find answer online with Google or go to your local library and write away!

Aside from creating helpful content your purpose is to promote yourself. Thus, resource box. Do not include affiliate links, leave your selling for when reader clicks through to your site. Okay, you've written an article- what now?

Submit your article to article banks. Article banks are depositories for articles. Like a real bank you can make a deposit or a withdrawal. There are several articles on my site that I did not write. I made several "withdrawals" from some of banks. It's a great way to get free content for your site.

In today's Google PR obsessed Internet world, everyone is completely focusing on getting in bound links to your site. While you should always be on a mission to get more sites to link to yours, you must not forget their polar opposites.

Remember, by having outbound links from your site, you are in essence "voting" for site you link to. This is part of entire ranking algorithm process for all search engines. The idea is, that if two sites are similar in content and design, a site with more links pointing to it would be considered more important by search engine.

So then, why should you help out any other site? Actually, by carefully linking to other relevant sites, you are increasing relevancy of your own site.

Pretend I have a pizza shop, and I am located in Anywhere, USA. It's a typical site that displays types of pizza, store location, hours, and coupons. I also know power of outbound linking. For this case, I am going to link to 10 sites: Domino's, Pizza Hut, Little Ceaser’s & Papa Johns. Next, I link to 6 sites that are physically located in Anywhere, USA. (And their physical addresses are listed on their sites.)

Now, I will switch roles and view site as a search engine spider. I navigate through site, and determine that this site is about pizza. Then I find a resource page and discover some well-known links (Domino's, Pizza Hut, Little Ceaser’s & Papa Johns - and as spider I know that these are major players in realm of pizza). Next, I find 6 links to sites located in Anywhere, USA.