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Most home business owners/internet marketers know there is nothing more important than driving massive traffic their website. Below are several strategies I use that you can implement immediately to get FREE traffic. Some of these strategies will get you immediate traffic and some are more longer term. The key is to use these methods on a consistent basis as consistency is the key!

1. Blogging - a very effective, long term strategy. Blog posts should contain content rich material; which the search engines love. The best places to host a blog are Blogger.com for beginners and Wordpress.com for more advance blogging. My blog is a WordPress blog hosted on my server. Once your blog is created, you can network with other bloggers on sites like blogcatalog.com and mybloglog.com. After you post, you will not only want to send your post feed out to your list, you will also want to submit that post to all of the social bookmarking sites. You can do this in one swoop here. You can post as much as you like, I post once per week while others post daily. Do what feels comfortable to you.
2. Articles – also, a very effective, long term strategy. The key to successful article marketing is not to sell or pitch your business in the article you write, rather provide valuable content. You can write about anything you have an interest in. After article is written, you will want to submit your article to all of the major article websites. Best way to find these article sites is to do a search. One of my articles can be found here.
3. Press Releases – PR are a great way to get both immediate and long term traffic. Before you write a PR, do a search on your topic or business to find other PR that have been written on that topic. As with articles, PR have to provide solid information on your business. If you try to sell or pitch your business via a PR, it won’t be accepted. Do a search on how to write a PR if you need some guidelines. One of my PR can be found here.
4. Videos – videos are another very effective method for immediate traffic. Video sites like YouTube, AOL, Rever, Google, Yahoo and MySpace are a few of the most popular. With video marketing, you can provide valuable content as well as be direct to the point, if you are selling or promoting something. View my previous post on video marketing here.
5. Social Networks – sites like Facebook and MySpace are great for making new friends, who can turn into prospects. View my previous post on Social Networking here.
6. Forums – The key here is to start a new thread and reply to other threads. The way to market on forums is by adding your link to you signature line. So when you post to a forum, other forum members will see your signature line and hopefully click on it. Join forums on topics that interest you, post consistently, gradually develop friendships and watch the traffic flow in.
7. The best way to learn details about all of these topics is to purchase Mike Dillard’s “Building On A Budget” manual. You can see the Banner for this manual on the right side of this page or go here.

PS. None of the above methods will work properly if you don’t have a lead capture page to capture your prospects name and email. There are many sources available on the web to either create your own lead capture page or have someone create one for you.

PPS. I can’t take full credit for this post.  This is very powerful information that my marketing buddy Tim Welch posted a while back, I just revised it a bit. ;-)  Tim’s post can be found here.

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