Cheap Ways To Drive Traffic to Your Home Business Site

Getting your self a website and home business set-up is an exciting time. You are finally going to be free. You will be master of your own destiny. You are ready to Fire the Boss. If you can only get traffic to your site. Anybody can get traffic to their site, that's not the trick. Getting targeted traffic is what it is all about!

There are a ton of companies out there that will guarantee you visitors or hits to your home business site. I have seen the ads and so have you, 100,000 hits only 10.95! On the surface that may seem like a good deal, but what kind of traffic are we talking about? I have heard too many stories about people paying for traffic and getting no sales out of it. The reason being is that it is not targeted traffic. It is just visits and maybe not even that. If you are selling an item or opportunity on the web, you don't need some 13 year old that just surfing around to see your website. In my opinion - save your money.

The first thing you should do is join the traffic exchanges. This mis where you will view other people's websites so that you can have others view yours. For a list of the best performing on a weekly basis check out TrafficHoopla . It is a free service that ranks them weekly. Definitely join TrafficSwarm , it is the biggest and probably the best exchange overall. Traffic exchanges are free to join - you can upgrade to pro and pay monthly for good benefits. Keep in mind that other people on those exchanges are doing what you are doing - they are surfing to get credits so others can view their site.

Safelists are another cheap way to get you home business out there. A safelist allows you to send e-mail messages to other members in exchange for you receiving messages from them. Again Traffic Hoopla has a list of the top safelists to view. As a free member of a safelist you can mail usually every 48 hrs to once a week depending on the safelist.

Forums are a great way to meet other internet marketers, exchange ideas and promote your business through your signature. I would not suggest blatantly promoting yourself or your business. a forum is a place to exchange ideas. Your signature will be promotion enough. you must give of yourself, through worthwhile postings before you will see a benefit. Forum members expect that you have something worthwhile to say and will ignore you if you do nothing but promote.

These are a few of the tried and tested methods that people are using to promote their home businesses. If you are short on funds, this is a great way to start. Don't expect the flood gates to open, it does take a while to build, but if you are consistent and motivated it will pay off.

To Great Success,

Joseph Demasi