Regardless of whether we are in a good economy or a bad economy as a website business owner you should always be looking for creative ways to market your website business. Creativity can come in the forms of promotional giveaways, contests or live product demonstrations. However, if you really want to get more traffic to your website, then you need to follow the technique in this article.

As we said earlier exposure is the key to increasing sales. You see it is a numbers game. In order to increase sales you need to increase the number of people that visit your site. The more people that visit the greater the chance more sales will follow.

Now I will say this that if you website is hard for a visitor to navigate, in other words it is hard to find things, they will leave faster than they arrived and not buy anything at all. Some invest the time, effort and money into creating a robust website.

The technique that will increase your website traffic for free is called article marketing. Article marketing is the process by which you write an educational and informational article related to the content of your website. For example, let’s say you sell home décor products. You could write an article that explains what paint colors are best suited for various rooms or a top ten list of must haves for any dining room, that sort of thing.

Then once you have your article written, you will create what is called the resource box. Your resource box tells the reader of the article who you are and how they can get in touch with you. A typical resource box would read, "Jane Doe is the creative director for XYZ Home Décor. You can learn more about Jane’s creative talents as well as XYZ Home Décor by visiting their website at {insert the web address here}." As you can see the information provided gives the reader everything they need should they have more questions or want to see more of Jane’s creative talents.

Now that you have an article and resource box all put together you are ready to market your website for free. Your web address is located in your resource box so that is how people know about your site. You take your article and resource box and submit them to a variety of free article directories on the internet. Article directories exist for this purpose, to allow you to market your website for free. They receive tens of thousands of hits daily from users looking for content similar to what you are providing. These users then syndicate your article (complete with a link to your website) on their blogs. Imagine your article getting picked up by a few dozen home décor blogs. Your website just went from no exposure to literally being exposed to potentially millions of home décor enthusiasts. And how much did that cost you? Nothing except your time and some effort.

Just repeat this process on a daily basis, writing one article every day, and you can literally double your website’s traffic in as little as 30 days.