Generating traffic to your website can sometimes be a very frustrating and tedious task. It can also become very expensive if you do not know what you are doing.  Traffic is the lifeline of any internet business. Without traffic, you make no money. Since the goal of most websites is to turn a profit, traffic generation is a very important factor.

Here are 3 totally free ways you can start generating traffic to your website almost immediately.

Twitter – Twitter is where its at these days. Its one of the most visited social networking sites online. Join twitter right now if you havent already. Write a short bio, add your link and start making friends. The key to being successful on social networking sites is sharing. Share information and help people out. The more you share the more people will visit your page to see what you have to say. Your following will quickly grow.  Once people see that you are willing to share instead of sell them all the time, they are more likely to visit your site and take advantage of what you have to offer. I personally dedicate about an hour a day posting and following people on Twitter. I try to keep it to an hour because twitter is very addictive.  If I don’t make myself get off the site, I will be on it all day. Since im trying to make money online, I have to set aside a certain amount of time for each task.

Write articles – Article marketing, in my opinion, is one of the greatest ways to generate free traffic to your website. Articles work really well. It can take a while to get your first few articles out there, but once you get the hang of it you will be able to finish multiple articles in a short period of time. The more articles you have out there the better. I submit my articles to 8 different directories. Ehow, EzineArticles, ArticlesBase, ArticleDashboard, Easyarticles, Ideamarketers, GoArticles and ArticleAlley.  If you don’t have a lot of money to spend on PPC and other forms of paid advertisement then article marketing is the best way to go.

Bookmark EVERYTHING – I use onlywire to spread my articles and blog posts across several different social bookmarketing sites quickly.  This not only gives me a boost in traffic but it also helps my link popularity.  Onlywire submits your bookmarks to 28 different websites.  If you want a lot of traffic, bookmark EVERYTHING.