There are lots of ways to get traffic to your website however most people are interested in getting the most traffic for the least amount of money,preferably for free.

While it's difficult to get anything for free nowadays there are still a few good ways to help build your web traffic and still pay nothing.

1. Build a second content-rich website.

Because content is king on the internet many haveadopted the idea of building a content-rich site in addition to their original sales site.

If you set up your title, description and keyword tags carefully and find a good balance for your keywordsaturation, you may be better able to achieve high searchengine rankings with a site that contains only good contentand information.

Once you have built your content-rich site you can then use the content to point your viewers to your sales site.

2. Add an article page to your existing site.

By adding article pages to your web site you canonce again point your readers to your sales page.

For example, let's say you have a website that sellsvitamins. Set up a few article pages that referencevitamins such as a page on the benefits of vitamins,how to take vitamins, the effects of vitamins, etc.Allow each of the articles to reference links to yoursales page.

This can be a very effective sales tactic because you've attracted the attention of someone interested in yourtopic. If they read your article and like what they'veread they're more apt to check out your links and you've increased your chances of making a sale.

Also, with proper meta tags and keyword usage, an articlepage is much more likely to make it to the top of a searchengine listing than a sales page.

3. Submit your articles

Any articles that you write should be submitted to as many sites that accept articles as possible. This is important because sites that accept and include yourarticles in their article banks establish links foryou and you are not obligated to reciprocate.

4. Build your links through reciprocal linking

By establishing reciprocal links you are verifying to thesearch engines that you have credibility. If high rankingsites link to your site then the search engines will find you worthy of high ranking as well.

Find sites that rank well and request a link exchange. This can be done manually or you can purchase linking programs that will automate this for you. Either way spend a few weeks focusing on creating quality links and you will soon see your link ratings go up as well.

5. Join and participate in online forums.

The internet is full of discussion forums that coverhundreds of business and non-business topics.

Find a forum in your topic and look over the discussions.Ask questions, contribute your expertise and get toknow some of the forum members. This is an excellentopportunity for you to meet others and introduct your website. It also helps build trust while helping youlearn how others have found success.

Elizabeth McGee has spent 20 years in the service andsupport industry. She has moved her expertise to theworld wide web specializing in affiliate sales. Elizabeth remains dedicated to helping businesses find trusted tools, enhance customer service, buildconfidence and increase sales. You can visitElizabeth's sites at: http://www.pro-marketing-online.com http://www.homenotion.com