Free Traffic

Free Traffic Methods

If you’re running on a tight budget, there are several free traffic 
methods you can use to start driving traffic to your website. Remember that when you opt for free over paid marketing tactics, you will have to invest more time, and the results are typically slower.

Forum Marketing

Forum marketing is a good way to generate traffic to your website,
 but it will only work if you’re providing something of value to the forum members. In other words, you can’t just join the forum and start posting anywhere and everywhere, just for the sake of posting. The best thing to do is to set up your forum profile with your website URL, and include your website URL in your signature, so it’s automatically included in every post you make on the site.

The key is to make sure you find forums where your target 
audience is frequently found. You can do this by searching Google for “forum + your niche.” Once you’ve found a forum or two related to your niche, then it’s time to start looking for places where you can be useful.

Look around the threads, and if you see someone asking a question,
 take the time to answer it. Don’t sell your product or service, unless it provides a legitimate answer for their problem. Instead, offer your expertise and extend a hand to help, if you’re able to do so.

The more actively involved you become in the forums, the more you’ll establish yourself as a expert in the field, so people will learn to trust you and what you have to say. When you’re a credible expert, you’ll start to see traffic come from the effort you’ve put into forum marketing.