Top three ways to generate free website traffic

There is one hard and fast rule in generating income with your site: A constant flow of website traffic. If no one goes to your website, it hardly bares a chance of making any money. BUT, it doesn't take a ton of cash to generate targeted traffic.Here are the top 3 ways to generate free traffic to your website.

1) Exchange Links
This is a very effective method. Just about every webpage has at least one outbound link on it.  Most site owners are willing to exchange links with another related site.  A major prerequisite in trading links with other websites is having the same niche. 


2) Write and Submit Articles
Create articles related to the niche of your website. Write about something that you are an expert in so that when they read it, they can feel your knowledge about the subject and will be eager to go to your site.  Informative how to articles tend to work the best.  Include a resource box at the end of your article with a link to your site and a little bit about yourself.  Submit these articles to a few online article directories.  Not only will it be available on the article directory giving you a backlink, other websites can use your article, as long as they keep your link in it, giving you links from relevant sites for free.

3) Join Online Discussion Forums
All this takes, is a little bit of time. Share your expertise with a couple online forums and it can do wonders for your traffic.   On most forums, you may add a link to your signature that shows underneath your posts.  Place a link to your website, then make informative posts in the forum, and people will want to visit your website.