By Cheow Yu Yuan

There are many ways to increase traffic to your website. You do not have to pay every time.

After some research, I have come out with some methods to drive traffic. Below are some of the ways, which you can group into two main categories: Free and Paid.

Free Ways:
1) Listing of self-created advertisement posts on classified sites. Choose only classified sites, which allow your listings to appear on the top once you update your posts. In this way, people will have a higher chance to view your posts.

2) Conduct cross-linking campaigns with other webmasters who have similar content with your website. Contact them and ask for a reciprocal link exchange. Make sure that your link appears on their pages, which Google indexes.

3) Give away free report/ebook and distribute them actively. Include your website URL and products/services in your free report/ebook.

4) Use article marketing. Write articles about your business industry and submit them to article directories regularly. Include your website URL in the author's resource box and remember to allow viewers to republish your articles freely.

5) Participate in forums and include your website URL in your signature.

6) Apply SEO techniques on your website so that it will rank well in the organic results for various search engines.

7) Submit to all available search engines, esp. Google, Yahoo, and MSN so that they will index your website.

8) Use viral marketing techniques (E.g. "Tell Your Friends" function)

Paid Ways:
9) Use the PPC (Pay Per Click) model by Google. (Google Adwords) Be sure to know what you want to achieve through this PPC campaigns before your start. Do you want to create awareness or generate sales?

10) Online ads banner to create awareness and drive traffic to your website.

About the Author
The author is the co-founder of HomeBizGears.com

HomeBizGears.com strives to provide the resources and gears for you to start YOUR Internet Business. HomeBizGears.com is also the publisher of the e-book "Your Perfect Guide to Start Internet Business". Do visit http://www.homebizgears.com for more information.

Please feel free to republish this article on your website, or distribute it to your friends or clients, as long as you leave the resource box intact.

Cheow Yu Yuan is Co-Founder HomeBizGears.com