Traffic is the life line of your internet business. Even if you do not have your own website, you still need to generate traffic to your affiliate sites. Without traffic, you get no customers and without customers you get no sales.

To generate traffic quickly, you can pay for traffic by using google adwords or other pay per click methods. This can be a very expensive way to generate traffic. If you do not do the proper keyword research, have good quality content on your landing page, then google adwords bill will be higher than the amount of sales that you made using this method.

The free methods do take more time and effort on your part, but in the long run it will pay off if done correctly. I am going to tell you about 4 methods today.

1. Online forums and online communities. The best thing about forums and online communities is that you can target your specific niche. Join the forum and ask questions and answer questions. Just be sure to offer good advice or information. This way you will be a trusted and respected member of the forum. An expert in the field. Remember to have a link in your signature back to your website. Use your keywords in your link. By having a link in your signature you will drive traffic to your site with other members clicking on your link and you will also have one way links to your site. This will help raise your rankings in the search engines.

2. Newsletters. Provide people with interesting and entertaining articles. In your articles offer quality information that they can use. In return for quality information, more people will sign up for your newsletter and recommend it to other people. They now have to visit your site to subscribe to your newsletter. Not only are you increasing traffic to your site, you are also building up a quality list or customer base. You can now sell your products or affiliate products to your list via email marketing. The money is in the list.

3. Write articles about topics in your niche. Try writing articles that will provide tips and guides. How to and top 10 lists are always good articles to write. People tend to read these articles more than others. You do not have to write a huge article. Your should have between 300 and 500 words.

Once you have written these articles, submit them to article directories. Most directories do not allow links in the body of the article. They have a resource box at the bottom of the article. This is where you want to include a link to your site. Use your keywords in your link. By including this link you generate traffic by people clicking on the link, but more importantly you are gaining a one way link to your site. Submit your article to many article sites and watch your search engine rankings go up.

4. Write good content for your site. Content is king. Along with your research on the topic of your article, you also have to do keyword research. The search engines spider your site and you need to have your keywords or keyword phrases in your article. Keep adding fresh content to your site and you will see an increase in your search engine rankings.

All of these methods will drive more traffic to your site for free. All it takes is a bit of effort and extended man hours. Submitting articles by yourself to the article directories is very time consuming. Try and find a service to submit the articles for you. It will cost you some money, but that time saved will allow you to write more articles.

Learn all you can about the methods listed here and you will soon have a site with a great amount of traffic without spending a lot of money.