Link exchange

Exchanging links with other sites, especially sites similar to your own is a great way to generate traffic. Not only will the links themselves provide traffic, but having a high number of sites linking to you should help your site get better rankings in search engine results. And that means more traffic as well.

More information on the topic of "link exchange" can be found on Wikipedia.

Traffic exchanges

Traffic exchanges have you visit websites, and in exchange other members of the exchange will visit your website. They typically work like this: When you visit sites through the exchange you earn credits. You exchange those credits for visits to your site.

They are a cheap alternative to advertise and attract traffic to a website, requiring a low to no advertising budget.

For more information try Wikipedia.

Traffic

Attracting visitors and/or users is probably the hardest part of making a successful website. It's absolutely essential in order to make money on a website. More users translates to more income.

There are several methods you can use to attack visitors to your site. I'll discuss some of them in future posts.

Wikipedia article on web traffic.