First of all, most of your traffic is going to come from Search Engines and Directories. (Mostly Google and Yahoo) The most important and by far best way to get your website listed in Search Engines,is adding quality and relevant links to your website. This method is known as reciprocal links.

So how do you get reciprocal links? The easiest way is to do a search using your favorite search engine [Google is best to start with) For example, let's say your website is about a home based business, and your key words for your site are "work from home", then what you want to do is go to http://www.google.com and type "work from home""add your link" or "work from home""link exchange".There will be many pages that come up in your search of websites that are willing to exchange links with you. When visiting these websites you will need to look for information on how to exchange links with these sites. Make sure before you request a link exchange, you place their link on your site first.

Why are reciprocal links important? Because link popularity is method most Search Engines use in determining how high a website is ranked and what position it will be placed in.

The most well known Search Engines that use link popularity is Google.http://www.google.com Others that use this method as well are: Altavista http://www.altavista.com, Excite http://www.excite.com and Hotbot http://www.hotbot.com

It will take alot of time and work in beginning to get links added to your website, but it will be well worth it in end. As you gain more links to your site, Search Engines spider your web pages looking for other sites linking to yours. The more sites these spiders find linking to your site more popularity ranking your website gets. This will give you a higher ranking position when someone searches web.

The second best way to bring free traffic to your website is writing articles. With a little work on a monthly basis, writing articles, you will be surprised by all free traffic this will bring to your website.

Did you just finish a project or make a sale? Reward yourself and take a day, or a week, off. Go see a movie, take a hike, visit a friend. Do whatever is relaxing to you and will recharge your batteries. Taking time off will let your subconscious know that success is rewarded with some fun time, and not just more work. This will make it easier for you to find work because you will have a positive attitude about work and know that it offers more rewards than just money.

You may feel guilty about taking time off. It just doesn't seem right to you to take a day off when all of your friends are stuck in an office somewhere working. Well, isn't being able to set your own schedule one of reasons you started your own business? Breaking out of 9 to 5 rut was a big reason for me to start my own business, and I have no problem taking time off. If my friends are jealous, well, let them start their own business like I did. When you're self-employed you need to be a little more concerned about yourself than what others think of you. The reason for this is that you are responsible for your businesses success or failure. It's one thing to work for a company and know that there is a president, financial officer, marketing and sales department and everything else needed to run company. It's something entirely different you know that you are wearing all of those hats, and it's up to you to make whole thing work.

You may also not be taking time off because somewhere in your mind is fear that you will never get another assignment. Hogwash! You've made it in your business so far, so why wouldn't you keep getting clients and assignments? You will, and deep down inside of yourself you know this to be true. One of reasons I started my own business was to have control of my work schedule, so my life would be less crazy.

How many times has your work schedule at some company been thrown into chaos because someone above you dropped ball and dumped their problems onto you? It happened to me a lot. I had to skip lunches, stay late or come in early. At one company, it got so bad that I hung a sign over my desk that read, "Poor planning on your part doesn't necessitate an emergency on my part!" Everyone thought it was funny, except for unorganized disaster-makers that were above me on corporate ladder. Since I've had my own business, this kind of problem is a rarity. Unfortunately, there are still some crazy times, thanks to a few, uhh... interesting clients.