If you want to make money online, you will need website or blog and then you will need visitors to that website or blog. I know that getting your own blog is not a rocket science but some time getting enough traffic to our newly created blog becomes really a rocket science. If you are facing problems in getting visitors to your blog, here I have shared 4 most common, most used and most powerful and free traffic building strategies.
Forum Marketing
Most online discussion boards and forums offer you an opportunity to post your links in your signature. This signature will be appended to all your forum activities like starting new threads, asking questions and responding to questions asked by other forum members. So this way, you get valuable back links, referral traffic from forum visitors and targeted traffic if you choose the right forum in relevant niche of your blog.
Article Marketing
If you are targeting traffic building for your blog, it means you are posting some articles on your blog. Now I recommend you to use these articles or blog posts to do marketing for your blog also. You can use these articles to submit on famous article directories like Ezinearticles and many more. Each article submission will allow you at least two anchor text back links, this way you can get similar benefits that you can get from forums. The hidden secret (benefit) behind the article marketing is that when you article gets distributed on other blogs or websites, your link will go with it so multiplying the number of back links as well as the sources of possible referral visitors.
Social media marketing.
This is where the internet world is growing faster and faster every day (remember Facebook and twitter?). If you are using internet since a long time, I am sure you will have at least one or two social media accounts (profiles) like Facebook and twitter. Every social media networking site allows you to share your favorite links and content. You can get benefit of this facility to share your blog content and links with your followers and friends. If you are advance user, I recommend giving a try to OnlyWire and ping dot fm. These are free and automatic content distribution services allow you to spread your link across most popular social media network automatically.
Free classified ad directories submission.
There are countless free classifieds sites available on internet, however I recommend only top most directories. You can submit your blog, website or business to these directories under the suitable category. It helps your visitors find you easily in search engines when they are looking for the products or services like yours on google.