There used to be a time when people did not believe that free traffic worked.
This is why there has been so much popularity with paid methods such as pay per click, banner marketing as well as classified ads.
The truth of the matter is that there are many ways to generate free traffic on the Internet, it is in fact some of the best traffic you can receive to your website.
If you choose your free traffic sources wisely you will benefit from not only free traffic but it will be very targeted as well.
We have options such as content marketing via articles and search engine marketing.
If you are just starting out online I would suggest content marketing via articles, this method is better for beginners due to the fact that you will see results sooner versus later.
With search engine marketing, you have to wait a longer amount of time not to mention the fact that you would need to build a full fledge website.
Marketing online with content in the form of articles also brings traffic over time, by that I mean that if you decide to write an article today, it is very common for you to see the bulk of the traffic with the first week but at the same time you continuously to receive the traffic to your website for many months and years to come.
This is because articles have a viral characteristic by being spread all over the Internet.
Your prospects maybe doing a search a year later when they stumble upon your article and later come back to visit your website.