Your primary goal as a webmaster is to get people to your site, and there are a ton of different ways to go about attracting those visitors. You can buy traffic with Adwords, you can borrow traffic with links and adverts on other sites, but the best type of traffic is free traffic! Here are 5 great ways to get more people to your site for free.

1. Directory listings. This is an old technique, but true and trusted. Simply submit your site to free directories, such as the Open Directory Project or small niche specific directories in your market, and you'll get both traffic and backlinks to help with your SEO.

2. Social networking. Networks like Twitter and Facebook have come on leaps and bounds in the past couple of years, and are a fantastic way of getting in touch with your potential customers and getting traffic to your site. My adding re-tweet buttons to your articles you can even get your visitors voting for your content and driving even more new visitors to your site. If you won't already have a Twitter account, get one today!

3. Backlinks. Google, and the other search engines, use the links pointing to your website as a gauge of how authoritative it is. Therefore if you can acquire more links you'll get more traffic through that link and also a boost in search engine rankings. Try leaving comments on other blogs in your niche, posting on forums, or swapping links with other website owners.

4. Get your domain seen. There are countless places you can promote your domain name, from business cards to magazine adverts. Whenever you get the opportunity, whether it's on your email signature or a forum, or sign-writing on your car, get your domain out there and spread the word!

5. Build a list. Once you have a visitor at your site, you should really offer them an incentive to give you there email address. A free report or newsletter in exchange for their subscription means you can promote to that same customer again and again, making list building the most profitable of all the traffic techniques in the long run.

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