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Getting traffic to your website is a major key to getting sales and making money. You can either pay for traffic with time or you pay with money and many times it is both. Even with pay-per-click, you will usually spend a significant amount of time in addition to a cost for each click to get targeted traffic to your website. The following are a few ways that you can get free traffic. Some of these are going to produce more targeted traffic than others, but each of these methods can get traffic to your website.

Now, blogging can be like any other website that alone isn't going to get any traffic. However, depending on which blogging platform you use, you'll have an instant leveraged website or web platform you can use to get traffic assuming you use the right keywords in the right places on those blog posts. For instance, Blogger.com and WordPress.com tend to rank relatively well with the search engines, especially with Google.

There are several social bookmarking sites, such as Digg.com and Del.icio.us and other sites like this. You can "bookmark" your own blog posts and other pages to help them get ranked in the search engines. Often times these social bookmarking "tag" pages will get ranked as well. Although this isn't a direct link, these pages can serve as bridge pages with links back to your site and these pages rank also rank very well with the search engines.

In addition to blogging on sites like WordPress.com or Blogger, or even a self-hosted blog, there are other sites you can use that may be considered mini-blogs. There are several sites that allow people to create their own pages. You may have heard of Squidoo.com or Hubpages.com. You can use existing articles, videos, and just about anything else to populate those pages with content. Just make sure to link back to your main site or the site where you have your affiliate link or your main source of revenue. You can use these types of sites as well to promote affiliate products.

Next to pay-per-click, articles are the best way to get your website ranked and get traffic back to your website. The main reason these article websites are so good is because the pages on which your article shows up are very relevant and the links that are allowed in the author profile or resource box. Many of the good article sites also have a lot of "authority" with the search engines and their article pages rank very well which also means that the link values passed along from these types of sites are very high.

Posting on forums is another great way to generate links back to you site. Find forums within your niche and start contributing to the conversations. Make sure that you're posting on forums that allow you to add a signature with a link. Also, whenever possible, view the source on forums and see if they add a "nofollow" attrib within the link code. If they do, that forum won't do much for your search engine optimization, but will work for getting clicks back to your website.

You can find that there are a lot of blogs that already get a lot of traffic. When you comment on these blogs, you'll usually have an option to put in your name, email, url and your comment. If your comment is insightful and contributes to the value of the original post, you'll have other readers of that same blog post find your comment and many times will click through to your blog. I've personally done this and also had visitors to my sites also from blogs for comments I've left.

There are several things that you can do to help you get traffic to your site. These are only a handful of ways you can use. The more time you spend trying these things out, the more you'll learn and the better you'll get at getting rankings and traffic.