YOU can get a lot of WEBSITE TRAFFIC without having to spend a lot of money. Some of these cheap but effective website promotion techniques include using social networking sites,  blog posting, writing articles, search engine oprtimization (SEO) and even forum posting.

Use Twitter to Share your Links
Most common today if you have a Twitter is to share your website link in  your tweets.  You can also send short direct messages to your Followers for them  to visit your site or to look for interesting blogs or contents related to your products.    There is  way to Automate  your Twitter posting and Direct message sending to your Followers by getting free membership from Tweelater.   This one is really cool. But just a word of caution,   don't schedule or program your direct messaging (with your product links)  everyday,  otherwise,  you will be accused of spam and banned from the Twitter network.

Drive Traffic with MySpace
One of the most popular social networking site on the web is MySpace. Many people think  that Myspace is nothing more than a place to meet new friends and  interact with people on the Internet from all over the world.  What they do not know is that Myspace can be a great place for promoting businesses as well. Many business owners, affiliates, entertainers and other entrepreneurs are taking advantage of MySpace to  promote themselves, their products and  services.

Here are some  tactics to drive traffic using MySpace.

• Customize your MySpace page to bring out what's good in your personality. Make it beneficial by including your video, audio, graphics and content that will be valued by the visitors.  Don't forget to embed the link or banners of the websites that you are promoting.
• Use MySpace Blog.  Creating this  blog is automatic.  Post regularly in your blog to create your credibility as an expert.  You can also post articles with links to  the website your are promoting.  In doing this,  you are providing valuable information to your visitors and in turn help  boost your website traffic.  
• Drive traffic using the Classified ad section of your MySpace.  You ads should be  keyword rich to increase your clickthrough rates.
• Keep updating your blog with valuable content.  Post new  articles, tips,  valuable information, photos or anything of interest to your friends and visitors.
• Invite friends to expand your network.  Constantly keep looking for people who might be interested in your blog.  Make friends with them and ask them about their needs and wants.  If you can help them to solve their problems, you will increase your credibility and later on they will believe when your introduce a product or service.

Tell-A-Friend Scripts
It doesn't  need any complex programming skills to use Tell-A-Friend Scripts.  Actually, you can install it on your web page simply by copying and pasting the script’s code.  To find one from the internet, just  type in “tell a friend script” in any Search engine and press enter. You will see a number of sites where you can go and download the scripts you want. It’s all a matter of looking for it, then copy-pasting it onto your website.  Tell-a-friend scripts can become one of your most effective tool in your marketing campaigns. It may look quite simple, but mind you, it can do wonders for driving enormous  traffic to your site. 
 
Blogging is a great way to Advertise
Take full advantage of what Blogging can do to your business. Blogging has become more popular today and more and more online businesses are using blogs to promote their products and services. It makes perfect sense to follow suit. There are several good blogging sites on the Internet that allow people to sign up and create a blogging account with them for free, such as Blogger or Wordpress.  Create your blog and link it to your homepage.  Update your blog regularly to make it more relevant to search engines,  and that will drive more traffic to your site.  Make sure that all your posts and articles have the appropriate keywords. You can also display your banners,  product links and other  text advertising in your blog.

Post Articles
Posting articles is another one of the most practical and most effective method to promote and advertise your website.  If you are a newbie and still struggling to write,  you can just grab articles provided by your Affiliate program  and post them in any  article directory.  Don't forget to embed your  product links or signature link back to your site or blog.  There are several excellent article directories available for your submissions. You can submit  to Free sites like GoArticles or EzineArticles. You can also use a service like isnare that will submit your articles to tens of thousands of Article Directories for a very small fee. As long as your articles remain in the directories,  there is always a strong probability that the readers will visit your website.

 Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Using SEO, or search engine optimization, is another inexpensive yet very effective way for getting traffic to your website. By using proper search engine optimization, your articles and your website’s overall content will become more search engine friendly, as well as your website. Include your keyword in the domain name of the website that hosts your articles. Also include keywords in the first paragraphs of your pages, as well as the title of the page itself. These SEO techniques will help your site get better exposure with search engines, and your articles will rank higher on search results.

Forums
Another inexpensive website traffic technique that you can use is to join and participate in forums. Find a forum that is related to your website’s content.  This way, you can  easily post discussions, answers, and even start threads that may be useful to other forum members. You can pull in traffic by making entertaining or informative posts that will boost your reputation for being an authority on certain subjects. Another way to maximize your  advertising is to create your own Forum and customize your pages by embedding your banners, links and even inline ads from Adsense or Clickbank.  Voy Forum and Network54 allow  forum Owners to do that.  Ensure that  your Forum subject is related to your product or industry.

Email Signature
Email signature can be a very effective tool to promote your site link.  Simply set-up your email signature to include a link of the product site that you want to promote to your friends and colleagues.  You will not be accused of spamming in doing this as this will only entail one or two liners at the bottom of all your outgoing emails.

YOU see, they are not expensive at all.  Of course there are many other advertising methods available that you can complement with all these easy methods.  Buying some "pay per click-inline ads" will be very fruitful.  You can also advertise in Classified ad sites (free or paid) and join some Traffic Exchanges for more site exposure.. 

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