free traffic

The term "free traffic" is used in an online context to refer to any means of driving visitors to a web site that doesn't have an up-front cost. That last part is important - if there's a cost associated with generating the traffic, even when the profits gained far compensate for it, it's not considered "free".

There is a cost, however, just not a monetary one. Building a system that brings real visitors to your site takes time, if you mean it to have any longevity. Read this list of ways to increase your web traffic, or other website promotion techniques, and you'll have an idea of what the pursuit of free traffic will get you into.

There's also the expenditure of energy - yours or someone else's. Whether it's through getting other bloggers to write about you, or having a reporter write about you in an online magazine, that leg work simply cannot be automated. Yet if you're willing to bear these hidden costs, free traffic is among the best you can get.

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• Reasons Why iPod Touch For Christmas 2009-iPod Touch 3rd Gen Features

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 577
  Looking at the Best Price iPod Touch for Christmas 2009 I was impressed by some great new features. Sold in three versions, the 8GB, 32GB and the 64GB models. Pricing that ranges from $199 - $399. Most of the features of the iPod Touch are derived from the iPhone. The feel is expensive but the [...]
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• Tougher Standards On Fund Fees Near?

  
  Wall Street Journal — Authority: 842
  The Supreme Court may soon issue a ruling that puts more pressure on mutual funds to justify their fees.
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• Nikkei Gains; Axa Pacific Jumps

  
  Wall Street Journal — Authority: 842
  Asian shares were higher Monday, with AXA Asia Pacific in Australia climbing 30% after a takeover bid from AMP. The Nikkei crept up 0.3%.
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• Traffic plan questioned

  
  The Star Online: Sports — Authority: 789
  THREE Pakatan Rakyat MP’s of Kuala Lumpur are questioning some of the discrepancies in the RM110mil traffic dispersal plan proposed for Brickfields.
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• Residents voice concern over proposed hotel in SS15 project

  
  The Star Online: Sports — Authority: 789
  RESIDENTS in Subang Jaya have voiced concerns about a proposed hotel at First Subang in SS15, and how it will impact the neighbourhood in terms of traffic.
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• Air Passengers Threatened With Wild Dog Tax

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 539
  Air passengers are facing a new tax at India’s New Delhi airport – to pay for dog catchers to trap packs of strays who chase planes.Air traffic experts estimate that as many as five flights a day are delayed by dogs running after planes on the tarmac as they try to take off.“In most places [...]
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• Pallin’ Around with Chris and Dr. K: South of the Border

  
  Chris's Invincible Super-Blog — Authority: 130
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• New Mosque in Nicaragua Stirs Rumors

  
  Wall Street Journal — Authority: 842
  With just 300 or so Muslims in all of Nicaragua, it became an instant mystery when a mosque suddenly seemed to spring up in a residential neighborhood.
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• New Frontier Opens in Abortion Debate

  
  Wall Street Journal — Authority: 842
  Antiabortion advocates claimed a victory after the House passed an 11th-hour change to the health bill that tightens insurance coverage for abortions.
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• Health Bill Faces Senate Heat

  
  Wall Street Journal — Authority: 842
  President Obamas health-care bill faces an uncertain Senate battle after the House passed the measure by a 220-215 vote.
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• Health Bill Faces Senate Heat

  
  Wall Street Journal — Authority: 842
  President Obamas health-care bill faces an uncertain Senate battle after the House passed the measure by a 220-215 vote.
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• Tunnel dug

  
  Shanghai Daily: Latest News — Authority: 685
  CITY constructors yesterday moved a step closer to another fast-traffic vehicle tunnel beneath the Huangpu River with the completion of digging on the second of its twin tubes. The Longyao Road Tunnel, the longest...
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• Chongming overrun as tunnel-bridge proves hit

  
  Shanghai Daily: Latest News — Authority: 685
  CITY traffic and tourism authorities faced a wave of complaints yesterday as visitors hit Chongming Island en masse for the second weekend in a row. The Changjiang tunnel-bridge, which opened on October 31, has...
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• No. 2 Cool Cats notch first win over Hoosiers since 1993

  
  The Kentucky Kernel — Authority: 624
  By Aaron Smith With the scoreboard frozen after the final buzzer sounded, UK hockey players stood in the center of the ice, waving goodbye as their opponents trickled off the ice in defeat. It seemed UK was sending off not only a vanquished foe but also ghosts of its own past. UK (15-2 in Division II play) ...
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• Requests Rise for Jobless-Aid Program

  
  Wall Street Journal — Authority: 842
  A U.S. program that pays generous benefits to jobless people displaced by global trade has been swamped with applications in recent months, leaving potential beneficiaries in limbo.
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• Requests Rise for Jobless-Aid Program

  
  WSJ.com: Capital — Authority: 571
  A U.S. program that pays generous benefits to jobless people displaced by global trade has been swamped with applications in recent months, leaving potential beneficiaries in limbo.
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• Requests Rise for Jobless-Aid Program

  
  Wall Street Journal — Authority: 842
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• Pilot Error Cited in Comoros Crash

  
  WSJ.com: Capital — Authority: 571
  Investigators believe that pilot error and confusion in the cockpit of a Yemenia Airways jetliner caused the plane to crash in the Indian Ocean as it tried to land in the Comoros Islands in June.
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• Pilot Error Cited in Comoros Crash

  
  WSJ.com: Capital — Authority: 571
  Investigators believe that pilot error and confusion in the cockpit of a Yemenia Airways jetliner caused the plane to crash in the Indian Ocean as it tried to land in the Comoros Islands in June.
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• Lieberman: Fort Hood Attack Could Be Terror

  
  Wall Street Journal — Authority: 842
  Sen. Joe Lieberman said the shootings at Fort Hood could have been a terrorist attack, and that he would launch a congressional investigation into whether the U.S. military could have prevented it.
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