Hello!

Traffic is one of the most important things when it comes to making money online, because without any traffic you can’t expect to earn money in most ways (but not all though). I have now thousands of visitors to my site every year and decided to share my best tips on how to increase traffic. I hope that this post will be useful for some people who are struggling to attract visitors to their website. Enjoy!

• Create a google sitemap to improve your site’s visibility in Google search results. It’s free (you can create sitemap online here)
• Add an RSS subscribe button in a visible position on your site. Personally I don’t use RSS, but there are many people who DO use RSS feeds.
• Submit your website to search engines and site directories so people know you exist.
• Optimize your website for the search engine. Don’t try to rank for one keyword – better try ranking for several or a whole phrase.
• Exchange links with other websites similar to yours.
• Leave comments on other peoples blogs – just post nice and simple comments or interesting information and add your website link.
• Adding good quality content always helps to improve search rankings.
• Tag your content.
• Have your own domain if you don’t have already. Short and memorable is always better than long-keyword domain.
• Have simple and clear website layout .
• Word FREE makes wonders. Add a free product giveaway and you will have lots of visitors. You can also create an email list by giving away your free product.
• Try to get a link from a higher rank website than yours.
• Submit your site to DMOZ (http://www.dmoz.org/)
• Purchase of the banner space on other websites.
• Use as the PPC adwords, like Google adwords, MSN,  Yahoo.

A couple more ways that require more time:

• Post helpful replies in various forums and add a link to your website as a signature, so whenever you post a reply, there is a link below it. Or you can also write an answer in Yahoo! Answers, Google Groups, etc.
• Write articles related to your website and submit to Article Directories (Ezine Articles so far is the best). Add a link in your article, so when other websites publish your article, they will automatically backlink to you without you backlinking to them.
• Create page on Squidoo or hubpages
• Create a blog for you site if your website is not a blog itself.
• Submit video with link to your site on You Tube, Google Video, etc.

I hope you find this helpful. All the best!