If you're wondering how websites drive traffic to their pages. It goes something like this: Most of them are spending loads of money to drive the traffic to their sites; they are investing in many kinds of advertising systems such as; pay per click ads, banner and web page ads; as text, image, or both; different forms of marketing stratgies; and other medthods also. This is all worth it though, because it can pay off in lots of daily web traffic hits and in high business earnings.

If you can't afford to pay for those services, there are many other lower cost ways to get the traffic to your website that your online business needs to succeed.

Here are some more ways to get that ever needed website traffic to your site. A certain % will order from you, so the more visitors you bring in to your site the more customers you will get. That is based on the average percentrage of visitors who stay on your sight, and then order or return at another time and order.

Off Page SEO or Inbound Links Links

Once your site has some presence on the web, other site owners, that have similar topics and subjects as your site will want to put your link on their site, so that they can claim to their visitors and customers that they have adequate links to good resources, such as your; webpages, products, services, or just well written relevent articles that compliment what they are alreaready offering on their site.

One way links into your site are better than two way exchange links, because 2 way links might seem to a search engine as a planned out link exchange, just to get credit for having more inbound links for both sites, without really having earned it from a truly interested website owner. But if the two sites topic, subjects, and/or theme is very relevant than that would be ok because it makes sense. In other words it's a good mathch for both of the websites, the site owners, and the visitors to both sites; to get more relevent content from the additional sites relevant resources being added to either site.

Write and Submit Articles

There are many e-zines and online encyclopedias in the internet which provides free space for articles to be submitted. If you want to save costs, you can do the articles yourself. There are many freelance writers who are willing to write for you for a small fee, but to save money, it is wise to do those articles yourself.

Write articles that are themed along with the niche of your site. Write something that you have expertise on so that when they read it, they can feel your knowledge about the subject and will be eager to go to your site. Write articles that produce tips and guidelines to the subject or niche your site has.

Include a resource box at the end of your article that can link them to your site. Write a little about yourself and your site. If you provide a light, information-laden and interesting article, they will go to your site for more.

Make a Newsletter

This may sound like hard work because of all the articles you may need to use to build a newsletter but on the contrary, this is not so. There are many writers and sites that are willing to provide free articles as long as they can get their name in on your newsletter. This will also provide free advertising for them as well.

As your newsletter gets pass around, you can widen your public awareness and build an opt-in list that can regularly visit your site.

Join Online Communities and Forums

This only requires your time and nothing else. You can share your knowledge and expertise with many online communities as well as your website. You can get free advertising when you go to forums that have the same subject or niche with your site.

Share your two cents and let them see how knowledgeable you are with the subject. As you build your reputation, you also build the reputation of your site, making it a reputable and honest business that could be frequented and trusted by many people.