Before we begin I want to tell you the basic principle behind any method that builds traffic to your website. It is very simple, go where the crowd is there already, show up your offer and if it sounds good to the crowd they will come to your website in bulks.

For example if someone wants to sell ice-cream where should he erect his stall? simple, where kids (and their parents) gather for recreation. Though this sound very simple, most people screw up the basics. So let's see how we can make use of this simple theory

Discussion Forums >>

Today every imaginable topic has a discussion forum. Starting from internet basics to parental care, you will find people visiting these forums every day in thousands seeking a solution to their problems. If you have the answer to their problems it can be used to generate traffic to your website by participating in the discussions.

Writing Articles >>

Articles can bring in some good quality traffic even after you have posted it long back. Article directories is a place where the crowd is a mix. Some folks are just readers, trying to find solutions to their problems and some are looking for fresh content for their website/newsletters. In any case you win, because you get a portion of the traffic they receive through the link in your resource box.

Traffic Exchanges >>

Don't ignore these. They still have a potential to bring in traffic. Usually they are free to join and you get instant "hit credits" when you join. There are 3 basic types of traffic exchanges.

Traffic exchanges are best for capturing email addresses or in short "building your list" by giving away free stuff.

1) Start page exchange.

In this you must set the start page of your browser with a special url. Whenever you start you browser a website of the traffic exchange member gets shown and you get a "credit" so that yours will be shown to somewhere else.

2) Manual Surf exchange.

In this you will have to manually surf the websites by clicking on a graphic icon on the HTML tool bar provided by the traffic exchange. If you view the website for the time set (usually 15-20 seconds) you get a credit.

3) Autosurf exchange.

In this type to start browsing once and that's it everything from here gets done automatically. The HTML traffic toolbar will fetch random websites and display them in tour browser. Whenever you view it you get a credit.

Blog Directories >>

Creating a blog and submitting it to blog directories in considered a good practice. The only thing is it is not enough to just submit it and forget about it. If you want traffic create a "blogging schedule" and post new content on a regular basis. Most blog directories have a facility to check for new content added to your blog automatically. So when your blog gets updated it might appear in the "recently updated" blog entries on blog directories and you end up in getting traffic.

Another method it submit an "RSS feed" that the blog platform generates to RSS feed directories and generate more traffic.

Using these methods you can generate quite a bit of traffic without the need to optimizing your website for search engines. Search engines is actually the best way to generate traffic but should be a long term goal. Using the 4 tips above can bring in traffic on the same day you start you website.

I hope this article was helpful to everyone.

Copyright Shrinivas Vaidya