How to Create Free Viral Traffic

To find success with your internet marketing business there is one thing that you absolutely must have – traffic, as much as possible.

There are many ways to get traffic to your web site or affiliate program. One of the best ways to generate traffic (and highly targeted traffic at that) is also extremely cost effective. In fact, after a single one-off cost for appropriate software, the cost to you is practically zero.

I have always been drawn towards achieving any given target at as low a cost as possible provided I get the results I am seeking.To me it doesn’t make sense to pay $100 for a product if I can get it for a fraction of that. I have built my own internet marketing business primarily using free or low cost traffic generation methods.

This article will show you how to generate a constant and increasing flow of traffic to your web site or affiliate program without spending a fortune.

Viral Traffic

There are many thousands of surfers searching for free stuff online: Google is currently returning 2.9 million results for the search term “free ebooks”, and 3.1 million results for “free reports”, so you can see that there is massive demand.

To take advantage of this demand, create your own free report.The creation and distribution of your free report will build your traffic slowly at first and gradually build up momentum, but what I'm talking about here is free traffic here, so you have nothing to lose. To create your report, follow these simple steps:

Choose a “hot” topic

Visit any online marketing forum and you’ll quickly see what people are looking for in your niche – often information (how to do this, that etc.).

Write your report on what’s in demand to give your report the widest possible audience. If you’re really stuck or suffering from “writer’s block” you may well have reports or ebooks that you have downloaded gathering dust on your hard disk and you can use these for inspiration. Don’t copy other writer’s work – this can get you into a lot of trouble with copyright. Instead, rewrite them in your own words.

Within your free report, include hyperlinks back to your website (typically on the title page and at the end of the report) and/or affiliate links or products (within the text of the report, and ideally at the end of the report (links to related products or resources for example).

Give your report a title to attract interest

To ensure that your report gets noticed don’t use a title like “Marketing Basics”. A much better title would be something like “Secrets of 200% More Traffic – How To Instantly Get Twice As Much Traffic For Your Site”.

Compile your report into pdf format

The most widely used format for document distribution on the internet is pdf's and will give your report the widest possible audience. There are many programs available that will create a pdf from a word processor file, and these days you should be able to get a good one for less than $20.

Promote your report
Obviously, the first place you want to advertise your report is on your own web site (if you have one).

However, to get the best results (viral traffic), summarise your report into an article and submit the article to one or more of the free article directories. In the article’s resource box you would include something like “Like this article? Get the FULL - free - report from [yoursite] by clicking here” (hyperlink to your report’s download page).

Result – free viral, targeted traffic!

• Your article stays on the article directory producing more and more traffic back to your site and your report.

• As article directories are free resources your article may well be picked up by others and spread around the internet, getting even more exposure – true “viral” traffic that operates automatically for you.

• Search engines will also identify the link back to your web site which will increase your site’s ranking.

Apply these tips and watch as your hit counts grow.