Getting more visitors especially a lot of visitors is a dream of every webmaster especially one who is in-charge of a website with low traffic. Here are some ways you can get more visitors to your website for free.

Submit Your Website to Search Engines

Most people search for something on the Internet via seach engines, the most popular one being Google. Usually, this is what people do first when they want to find out about something on the Internet. The higher the ranking your website gets on a search engine, the greater is the chance that people will see your website. Unfortunately, getting a high rank is not that easy especially for new websites. Depending on the search engines you plan to use, you will have to make necessary adjustments on your website to achieve it. We call this Search Engine Optimization or SEO. For example, you will have to get more people linking to you especially in terms of Google, and work on your meta tags or contents for some other search engines. This can be time consuming and definitely no good for new websites. However, as time goes by your ranking may improve.

Submit your website to Internet directories

Other than search engines, people also search for something via internet directories. Most directories are divided into different categories. It is important that you list your website in the most appropriate category so that the chances of it being found is greater, and the chances of being deleted will be lessened. I suggest that you add your website to Googles directory or any free directories that has a suitable category. If your community or city has a free local online directory, by all means use it.

Use a Traffic Exchange Program

A traffic exchange is system where members can view one another's websites. Most traffic exchanges work this way:

A member surfs the websites of other members under the constraint of a timer. For each site visited, he or she is given a credit. The credits collected can be assgined to hs or her own website to get more visits from other members. The one good point for such program is you can get traffic from such system. The bad points are you may not get the response you desire as the others members may only consider your website as one of those they have to view in order to gain credits. However, if your website shows what the other members want, you will get good response. Base on my experience with traffic exchange programs, traffic generating and income opportunity sites are the sites that work best with such programs. To make the website more attractive, a webmaster may use a splash page instead of the actual web page. This is especially useful if the web page design is shared by other members.

Exchange link with other webmasters

You may get more traffic using exchanging links with other webmasters. However, it is best not to exchange links with those directly in competition with your business especially those which are more established than you are. This is to avoid your share of the market being taken away. However, it is good if you can exchange links with someone who offers an important service to the product or service you are offering that you cannot offer . For example, you may be selling used cars, but you cannot repair them. And so, you may have a link to a mechanic's website, and the mechanic will have yours linked to his or hers. A link exchange program makes it easier to find webmasters who wants to link to you. Unfortunately, you have to be careful whom you want to link to as the types of website linking to you may affect your Google ranking.

Advertise on Forums

Look for forums that deals with the product or services you offer on your website via the Internet. Make sure you don't advertise on forums own by rival businesses. The owner may play you down as the forum he or she has set up may be mainly for selling his or her own products and/or services. I learned this the hard way when I was trying to sell card models over the Internet. It is best to advertise on forums set up by enthusiasts of the product or service you intend to sell or on forums for a particular group you wish to target for example, Macintosh computer users. If you are allowed to do so, add a signature with a link to your website. You don't have to advertise your website directly. Whenever you have the chance, reply to posts by giving sound advice and solutions. A person who is looking for a solution may see yours and then the link to your website in the signature. It is also good to advertise on forums designed especially for free advertising.

Advertise on Free Classifieds

Advertise your website on free classifieds. If there is a section for websites, advertise in that section. Use an appropriate and catchy heading. Tell as much as you can about your website in the body of your advertisement. Tell the benefits you can offer to the visitors to your website.

Sign websites' guestbooks

Sign guestbooks that allow you to include the URL to your website.

Advertise on Social Network sites

Advertise your website on Friendster, Facebook, and MySpace. You may either include your website as a link in your profile or advertise it for free via any appropriate method allowed by social network site.

Submit articles to the Internet

Write a good and useful article and include a link to your website in your profile. If possible, include a link to your website in your article. However, be careful not to write in such away that your only intention is to get people to visit your website.

Start you own website to help others get more visitors

If you have a great idea on building web traffic or getting more visitors, try to create a website to help others. You may also want to encourage people who want more visitors to their website to link to your website by making them feel special if they link to you by using attractive link titles like "Website of the day", "Proudly listed with (the name of your website)", "Vote for us to be the best website", "A proud member of (the name of your website)", and so on.

Important things to remember

Always follow whatever rules are set up so that you will not be barred from advertising your website.

Use catchy phrases whenever possible to attract people to visit your website. Some examples I can think of are:

1. Free guide to earning money on the Internet.

2. Advertise your website for free

3. Lost in cyberspace? Let us help you.

4. Here's a site you wouldn't want to miss.

5. Great bargains at http://www.whatever.com/ (replace http://www.whatever.com/ with your own domain).

Convince the reader why he or she should visit your website by telling him or her the benefits you website can offer and/or how you can solve his or problem.

Offer an incentive for visiting your website. For example, you may want to offer a free gift to every visitors when the number of visitors reaches a thousand or more.

In addition you may want to add a script to your website so that your visitors can invite their friends to visit.

The more places you advertise or place a link to your website, the more chances you will have in getting more visitors to your website.

I wish you all the best in getting a lot of visitors to your website.