When learning how to make money online, one of the biggest problems is getting traffic to your site or product you are promoting. Traffic can either be free or cost money. Today we will look at the different ways to get free traffic.

Free traffic is the best for long term success; it is just hard to get to start with. A lot of people who are beginning to earn or make money online give up early because they don’t see results very fast. If you have just started out making money online, my advice is to be patient when getting free traffic, and don’t expect overnight riches.

Free traffic is slow to start with, but if done correctly provides a nice steady stream of income for years and years to come.

I will outline a few of the methods used to get free traffic:

1. Video marketing – If you are enthusiastic about the product you are selling or promoting, you can make videos of yourself talking about the product, giving advice, technical explanations, screenshots, power point show, whatever you want really. If people like what they see, they will click on your link and look at your webpage. Free traffic!

2. Article writing – Submitting articles to article directories is a great long term method. If you write good quality articles with good information, people will want to visit your site and see what you have to offer. You have to be interested in the product and know what you are talking about, for best results. There are lots of best practices involved, which can be learned by reading the information areas of the article directory.

3. Blogging – answering questions on forums and posting comments on blogs works well if you post genuine content and don’t just push your product.

One method which isn’t completely free, but works great is to pay the owner of a popular YouTube video to put your link in their description box. Because the video is already getting a constant stream of viewers, you get a constant stream of interested people. After the initial cost, it is free traffic.

There are training programs which go into a lot of detail about these methods and show the best ways to make money online. It is very helpful, even essential that those just starting out sign up to a training program to give a grounding on the basic things which need to be done and avoid the mistakes most of us made when starting out.

Another great way of getting free traffic is to create a Squidoo lens, with great content about the product or niche you are promoting. If you place your link at strategic points, interested people will click through to your website or product.

If you have programming experience, it is possible to create a face book application and monetise it. If you have a fantastic idea but no programming knowledge, there are people on the net who will program it for you.

Next time we will look at all ways to get paid traffic, and discuss common mistakes and good practices.

Good Luck with making money online.

Author Bio: David Mee has learned by trial and error how to make money online and which training programs are the best value for money. David has reviewed two of the best training courses he has used, and has put together some useful information for those just starting out. Visit www.davidmeeonlinereview.com to see if any these training courses will help you.

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