Some free ways of bringing in traffic to your website are Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or any of the other video websites, UsFreeAds, CraigsList, web-based forums that are related to your products, free blogging platforms like Blogger or WordPress, safelists (depending on the product or service you offer), keyword-targeted press releases, traffic exchanges, article submission to EzineArticles and other article directories, and more .

If you have some money to spend, you can invest in PPC (pay-per-click) advertising on any of the big search engines (Google, Yahoo, and MSN-Bing). The best thing about this sort of advertising is that you only spend what you need to spend. If you don’t have a lot of money to spend, ensure you choose the lower-searched keywords so you can bid lower. You will find all of the statistics on keywords in the search website free research tools.

Another paid options is Ezine advertising. Ezines are online mags. If you can find one that’s centered towards the particular market that you are trying to reach, you can place advertisements on the newsletters that they send out to their customers. All these strategies are very effective web site traffic generation methodologies you can start to apply straight away.