Traffic for a website is something like oxygen for a living being without it website won’t be able to survive. It doesn’t matter how beautifully your website has been created, it will be of no use until & unless it won’t be able to drag the traffic. We can get the traffic for our website in two ways either by “paid advertisements” or by “doing following activities to get traffic free of cost” :

Optimize Your Website For Search Engines : Search engines are the major sources to bring traffic for your website free of cost. Therefore, we have to optimize our website in a SEO friendly manner, so that search engines will rank us well for the keywords we target.

Use Social Media Websites : This is another way of getting the free traffic, here we post articles on the social networking websites. The things that we should keep in mind while posting to get the desired results are:

- organize heading of your article perfectly
- give a short & meaningful description about your article
- article should have a great first paragraph
- allows other to vote or bookmark your website
- submit article in right category
- try to submit in English
- don’t use automated submitters
- respond to comments on your article

Use your Account On Networking Websites : Social networks are also a good source to drag traffic for your website. Tell the people on your network about your website, if they will like it, they will definitely pass the URL of your site to their friends. If you are popular on your networks like Facebook, Twitter etc. , then the traffic from these networks can easily surpass the traffic from the search engines.

Get Backlinks From Websites In Your Niche : It’s a good practice for getting free traffic. Even if they are “nofollow” links, they’ll still help you in getting the traffic for your website. We can use some “Backlink Builder” tools, to know the websites in our niche.

Use Every Chance To Promote Your Website For Free : There are many ways for promoting your website for free like “Classified Ads”, “Submission To Directories” etc. Not all free ways work well, but if we use the right places to promote out website, they can bring a lot of traffic for you.

Create Free Product or Service : We can provide free services depending on the niche of our website like we can provide tons of advice or tips on SEO or can provide free e-books on SEO Techniques, That practice also lead to a huge amount of traffic for our website.

Use Viral Content : It is called so, because it distributes itself like a virus do. When users like your content, they send it to their friends, post it on various websites & promote it for free in many different ways. Here you just have to create it & submit it to popular websites, rest will be done automatically.

Use Offline Promotion Mode : Here you can do a lot of things to make your brand popular, like :
- Print URL of your website on your business card
- Stick your URl on your company vehicles
- Distribute T-shirts or other merchandise with your logo

Use URL In Your Signature : URL in forum signatures are also a way to get a good amount of traffic for free. There are numerous forums, which get millions of visitors a day, if you are a popular user on such forum, you can use this to get traffic to your site. When you post on forums & people likes your posts, they tend to click on the link provided in your signature to know about you or your website.

Update Content Frequently : This is a very important aspect of getting traffic for your website. This is totally depends on how long you are capable of keeping the interest of your users in your website. If content of your website is good & regularly updated you will not only build a loyal audience who will regularly visit your site but also Search Engines will love your website.