How to Get Traffic to your website and get paid

After a lot of hard work, time and energy, you finally got your website up and ready to be viewed by the public. It wasn't easy getting here. Taking you weeks or even months but now you find that all your hard work seem to be in vain because there is no one coming to your website. What do you do? Will you spend money to promote it? Will you give up? Of course not. You didn't go through all this effort just to simply bow out.

Many webmasters will tell you that getting traffic to their website is even harder than making a website. Why? Because the Internet is flooded with people who want to do the very same thing that you are doing. The competition is fierce! Some people will even pay thousands per month just to make sure that people see and visit their website to reach potential customers.

There is a way that you can get traffic for your website without having to spend a lot of money and get paid for doing it too. If you are trying to rank high on Google, then you can do a search to see how your competition is fairing and what websites rank high. I can tell you that Hubpages is highly favored by google. When you write an article or hub you can direct that traffic to your website by putting a link in your hub, especially if the material or content is relevant to your website. The best part about it is that it is free to join and you even get paid by running ads on your article by Google Adsense, Hubpages Ad Program, Amazon, and more affiliate partner programs.

If you are a beginner at writing do not be discouraged. You are not required to be a professional writer or have a background in journalism. You can write as much as you want. As a matter of fact, the more you write, the more traffic you will bring to your website because the more links that you have to your page, the higher it will rank.

Ezines is another place that you will want to submit your articles to gain targeted traffic. They are very effective and rank very well on Google. The higher your page rank is on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the best. The better chance you will have of getting your website perform higher in your search results. This equals more traffic. Ezines is free and doesn't cost you to submit articles on this platform. You can even submit articles that you have already published as long as it is your own material.

Forums are also another way to get traffic to your website. You can include your link in your signature when you post a reply, ask or answer a question and etc. Make sure that your audience will be interested in your website and try to be an active member to build up trust with others and hopefully they will visit your site.

Post on free classifieds that relate to your site. You will also want to add your url to many search engines right after you publish your site or article because it will get indexed quicker into the search results. Right after you do that you will want to put a site map on your website so that the search engines can index all the pages on your website. You will also want to submit your website to online directories like dmoz.

Voltrank is another website that will give you free backlinks to your website and increase your traffic tremendously. All you need to do is to submit your site to get more traffic. They will even assist you if you have trouble uploading the text links to your site. This method will increase your page rank. The best part is that it is totally free.

Of course, I did not cover every method to drive traffic to your website but these are just a few ways that you can do it without paying anything and even receiving money in the process. Give it a try and you will see your traffic grow.