We all know that the purpose of setting up a website is to sell our services so that we can make profit. Some entrepreneurs do not make profit because they failed to generate traffic to their site. Driving traffic to your site and appearing on the first page of the search engines requires time and effort. There are many ways to draw traffic to your site.

Regularly update your site content. Content is the first thing visitors notice. In order to make a good first impression you should post content that is useful. First time visitors will always want to come back.

Write articles and submit it to article directories. Your article must be rich in content. Most directories don't delete your articles for years. Submit to sites that receive good traffic. Google is familiar with ezine articles. Millions of people visit article directories on a daily basis to get the necessary information. Article submissions to article directories are among the best strategies for getting free backlinks. The quality of your articles will help establish your reputation in your field. People who are impressed by the quality of your articles will not hesitate to check what else you can offer in your site. You can decide to write 1 article per day and at the end of the month you end up having 30 articles.

One of the best techniques to get traffic to your site is to post in free classified ad sites. Submit your link to high traffic sites like Usfreeads, Craiglist etc. You get visitors from classified ads site users, you also get search engines to notice your site faster. Search engines often crawl popular ad sites and will detect the links in them. Posting free ads in classified sites will not cost anything however time and effort is needed.

Anyone with a webcam or a video camera can produce their own video which can be uploaded to sites YouTube, Google Video, etc. The video does not have to be professionally done. It can still send traffic to your site as people search video sites for specific keywords and come across your video.

Another effective way of branding and getting huge amount of traffic is blogging. Blogs are very easy to create and maintain. You only need to put some quality content on your blog on daily basis then ping it using pingomatic and submit it to blog directories. Once you get high page rank you start to get unlimited free search traffic.

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet. These bookmarks are stored on website where they are indexed and are sometimes ranked by importance according to other users. The key to exploding the number of visitors coming to your site is to use Social Bookmarking.