To get more hits on your website, you don’t need lots of money. To create more traffic to your site, you only need a little creativity along with the drive and perseverance to do the hard work and research.

Here are a couple of ideas to get you started.

Use Viral Marketing
Viral marketing lets you to spread the word about your company or product without any costs or very low costs. This is a marketing method that can be quite sneaky.

In an email, you can attach your company’s name, product or link to a certain media such as a funny video, entertaining game, an interesting article or gossip. With this method, people get infected with the creativity and entertainment of the medium that they may pass it on to many more people.

Trading links with other sites
When exchanging links with other sites, both of you will benefit from the efforts both of you do to enhance your sites traffic. When one site features another sites link, they could provide one another with the traffic one site generates. The efforts are doubly beneficial because it would seem like both of you are working to generate more traffic. The more links traded with more sites the more traffic could be expected.

Articles
Write articles that could catch the attention of people that have an interest in your product. Try writing your articles with tips and guides to others interested in your topic. Writing articles that provide good value and knowledge to others will provide the necessary fuel to increase your traffic flow.

Post your articles on the many free submission and posting sites on the Internet. When people read your article, if they have an interest, there’s a good chance they’ll follow the links back to your web site. Be sure to include a link or a brief description of your company with the article and there’s a great probability that they will go to your site.

Search Engines
Most often, internet users use one of the popular search engines to find what they are looking for. Searchers will type in the keyword phrase they’re looking for and the search engines serves up the results it finds. By including the right keywords on your pages, you could get high rankings in search engine results without cost.

Write good content for your site. The search engines have indexed your keywords and keyword phrases your site uses and know how they are used. It’s not a requirement that your content be done by a professional writer, but it does need to be well done as well as entertaining and informative.

Each of these methods can drive more traffic to your site for no cost to you. It will take some effort and a few hours of time. Learn everything that you can about the methods described here and you’ll soon have a site with great traffic flow without the usual costs.