Cindy Szponder’s Tips

In this world you only have two types of assets : Money and Time. I don’t know about you, but I like to save my money and don’t mind spending some of my time doing it.

So here are 10 surefire free traffic techniques that’ll get you a fair amount of targeted traffic:

This tip is so obvious it will not even be counted, but it is often overlooked : submit your site to the major search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN) and to as many other search engines as you can.

1. Use this proven Bummarketing technique: Write 5 to 10 articles and submit them to the free article directories. Be sure to select article directories that allow you to include a link to your site in the article itself or in your bio box.

2. Find blogs related to your topic and leave useful comments with a backlink to your site. In the same way you could go to answers.yahoo.com, and answer questions related to your site’s topic. Be sure to put a link to your site in each of your answers. Another thing you should consider is joining the most popular forums that deal with your site’s topic and becoming an active poster. Include a link to your site in your signature.

3. This one can be very powerful. Write a press release about your site and submit it to press release sites such as prweb.com. If you are not familiar with press releases, take some time to do a little research : a press release is not written like an article.

4. If you are happy with a product or service you have used, write an unbiased testimonial and trade it for a backlink to your site.

5. Start a blog on Blogger.com and a blog on Wordpress.com, link them to your site and submit them to the hundreds of free blog directories. This will get you plenty of quality traffic as long as you keep your blogs updated.

6. An easy way to get more free traffic is to add a link to your site in your email signature.

7. Start a page on Myspace.com and on any other high page rank social bookmarking site you can find. In the same way, go to Squidoo.com, open a few accounts, create a few lenses and link them to your site.

8. Submit a viral video to Youtube.com. You don’t really need any video producing knowledge as a simple Powerpoint slide show with some background music will do the job perfectly.

9. Search your main keywords on Google and see if you can exchange reciprocal links with related websites that come up in the top results.

10. You could write an ebook or a short report (say 10 to 20 pages), or find a product with giveaway rights that you can brand with a link to your site. Then submit it to all the free ebook directories you can find online.

This may sound like a full time job, but don’t worry–these techniques work, but you don’t have to use them all at once. Just pick the one you feel the best with and act now. Invest 30 minutes to an hour daily in building your free traffic. Then step to your next favorite technique and within a few weeks you’ll be building a stable online business.