Everyone needs more traffic.  traffic is one of the main factors that determines whether your business is a success or failure.  There are many ways to drive traffic to your website, but most can be quite pricey.  so how can you get targeted traffic to your site without paying an arm and a leg?

One of the eaisest ways is a blog.  blogging is a very effective way of driving traffic to your site, and search engines love them.  you can put just about anything on your blog, but for best results, your should only put stuff that is related to your business on it.  You can also discuess your products or services and leave links to your site.  you can use it as a place to answer questions your prospects or customers may have or send them to your faqs page on your website.  in order for blogging to be effective, you must update it regurally with fresh content.

Free viral reports is another great way to get traffic to your site.  you can write a few tips or tricks about your business and put it into a report that you will give away for free, with a link to your site in it of course.  you can give it away in exchange for prospects name and email address for follow up and you can even put some affiliate links in it for some extra income.

publishing your own newsletter is also a good  way to get traffic to your site.  offering free tips and content on a regular basis will not only help get you traffic, but also build a relationship with your customers.  depending on how popular your newsletter becomes, you can also sell ad space on it and make some extra income on the side.

finally, you can exchange link with other sites that are related to, but not competing with your website.  this will increase your rank on search engines while increasing your traffic at the same time.

as your traffic increases, and you make some money, you can reinvest it into some of the paid traffic stragedies.  this will skyrocket your earnings with little out of pocket cost.