Every day, you must generate website traffic. You can't make money if people can't find you. There is no getting around it: if no one knows you exist, they have no way of learning more about you or purchasing the products you recommend.

This is where various website traffic generation methods and techniques come in handy. In this article, I will share the top 14 free and paid ways to increase website traffic and viewers.

How to Generate Website Traffic: The Top 14 Ways to Increase Traffic to Your Website!

#1: Create a money-making website!

Create your own website or blog and start writing high-quality content to it regularly. Over time, you will generate website traffic from search engines and social media sites. You can get a 100% free, professional money-making website setup here.

#2. Start writing ebooks and submit them to PDF submission sites.

You can write short 10-page pdf reports about a certain topic, then submit the reports to different pdf submission sites online. (Pdf-submission sites get a lot of traffic, and they rank highly in the search engines as well.)

People are always looking for solutions to their problems. In the report, you could link to your website, where they can get more information. You could also have a link to a product in the report; this would generate passive income for you. Writing Amazon Kindle books is also a great option.

 #3. Fiverr

Fiverr.com is a huge marketplace for digital services. You can, for instance, buy targeted traffic for your website. There are lots of sellers on Fiverr, but thanks to the rating system, you can find a reliable vendor. Always be sure to read the reviews and ask for more information if you don´t understand what is included in the "gig" (the order). Read this review about Fiverr for more information.

 #4. YouTube

YouTube is the world´s largest video search engine and the second-largest search engine after Google.com. You can get a lot of targeted traffic to your site just by making your own interesting and helpful videos. Driving traffic to your videos (getting them to rank) can be quite difficult because there is so much competition. You can also start making money from YouTube without having your own videos. 

 #5. Forums

There are lots of discussion boards and forums online in any niche. If you are in the "make money online" or "home-based business" niche, you have probably heard of the Warrior Forum. It is the biggest forum for home business owners and Internet marketers. You can join and participate in the discussions for free. Quora is a huge discussion board that you should also participate in daily.

It is important to add to the discussion and leave useful and helpful comments. You will get a link back to your site from the "signature file" that is posted automatically below each comment you make. Forums are one of the best places to get 100% free and highly targeted web traffic. Just make sure to participate daily for the best results.

For some reason, forums are underrated. In my opinion, they are one of the best ways to get a steady stream of highly targeted organic website traffic to your site for absolutely free. This traffic strategy works only if you participate and add as much value as you can. When people trust and know you, they will click on the link in your signature file to learn more.

This is when you get a new subscriber to your email list or make a sale. Those who misuse these forums by advertising directly on them will get banned quickly. So, if you participate in the forum discussion for just 30 minutes per day, you can add a steady stream of growing traffic to your website without Google.

 #6. Pinterest

Pinterest.com is not as "famous" as Twitter and Facebook; maybe this is why Pinterest is so effective at getting highly targeted traffic to your site for free. There are lots of free training videos and courses available on how to get targeted traffic from Pinterest. In my opinion, Pinterest is not the best place to advertise affiliate products or anything that has to do with making money online. 

Pinterest works really well if you are in another niche such as cooking, traveling, clothing, makeup, and so on. It is all about sharing beautiful pictures. There is a lot of information available about how to use Pinterest as a traffic source. Here is an article that I highly recommend.

#7. Blog commenting

Blog commenting is still a very effective way to get targeted traffic without using Google or any other search engine. The idea is to find blogs in your own niche that are active. Always read the blog post before leaving a useful and helpful comment. Blog owners often manually approve the comments, and if you leave a bad comment (=spam), it will not be approved. 

So, read the blog post, then leave a helpful and useful comment. This is the only way you can get a link back to your own site and highly targeted traffic.

Write down which blogs you have commented on and revisit them in a couple of weeks. If your comment is approved, you should definitely ping the blog post URL. This will help get more traffic for the blog owner and you. Many ping-tools are available, including "Pre-Post SEO" (ping tool).

#8. Email solo ads

Udimi email solo ads (review) are one of the most effective methods to instantly get targeted traffic, leads, and sales. This is a paid traffic generation technique, but it is very effective. If you have a marketing budget, I highly recommend that you look into it. Here is more information about how email solo ads work and why they might be the right option for your business.

#9. Traffic Ad Bar

TrafficAdBar is a traffic generation system (review) that can deliver thousands of hits to your website within a few hours. It is free to use, but there are also different upgrades available. I have used TAB for over a year, and it has produced lots of new leads and sales for my business. You can use TAB for free or upgrade to get even more traffic. 

Personally, you can get hundreds of visits per day just by using the free version. It is good to know that in order to get massive traffic from TAB, you really need to surf for many hours per day. If you need highly targeted traffic quickly, consider investing in email solo ads instead.

#10. LeadsLeap

LeadsLeap  is a free advertising network that currently has almost 172,000 members. It can deliver a lot of targeted traffic to your site and earn you some nice passive income as well. Many top marketers use LeadsLeap because it works so well and provides continuous traffic to your offers. The traffic you get from LeadsLeap really converts to leads and sales.

#11. Free Traffic Exchanges

Many people say that traffic exchanges are completely useless and do not work. As a matter of fact, free traffic exchanges are one of the absolute best ways to get a lot of free traffic to your offer, if used the right way. 99% of people use TEs the wrong way and never get any results from them.

#12. The Downliner

The Downliner (review) is an automatic traffic generation system. You can use it for free or upgrade to get a lot more traffic to your offer quickly. This is a great way to get massive traffic to your offer automatically.

#13. Classified ads

You can generate website traffic for your offer using classified ads. The problem is that submitting classified ads manually is extremely time-consuming and tedious. To get real results from using classified ads, you need to automate the submission process using a service called Classified Submissions (review).

#14. Herculist PLUS

Herculist PLUS is a free advertising resource that has been around since 1998. Herculist has lots of different traffic generation tools available for free (a few upgrades are available). The best thing about Herculist Plus is that you can send a safe-list email to over 215,000 people per day. 

How to See How Much Traffic A Website Gets:

Generating traffic to your website is one thing (there are lots of different methods), but you also need to know exactly where the traffic is coming from. You need to skip those traffic sources that do not convert into leads and sales and focus on those that deliver results.

There are different tools you can use to see how much traffic a website gets. The easiest way is to visit SimilarWeb.com. You can analyze any website´s traffic just by putting the URL in the form and pressing the search button. Best of all, it is absolutely free.