Beside the fact that the web grows more crowded every day, traditional traffic generation just keeps getting more complicated and confusing. Let's look at your options:

* Pay-Per-Click Search Engines. Although you can guarantee traffic to your site, those pay-per-click charges add up fast! Paying $20-$100 per hundred visitors makes it harder and harder to make any money this way for those who have little money.

* Search Engines Optimization. Getting traffic this way is complicated, time-consuming and unpredictable for newbies. So you need to hire an expert for this matter. Cost of this service for the good result is more $1,000 per project.

* Yahoo! They now charges $300 per year. They also change their rules a couple of times a year. So, after spending all that money, you still have no guarantee of good placement from Yahoo!

* Email Marketing. It used to be every online marketers goal to have a big list of subscribers. You need months time to get big list of subscribers. To speed the time, you need to spend thousands of dollars for this marketing.

* FFA pages. These techniques do nothing more than flood your email box with spam and rarely.

Here is way you can get FREE traffic to your website. Getting traffic to your website is not easy. A new website might get 10 - 20 visitors daily. If your website is good and improved frequently it will give you up to 100 - 200 visitors daily. Some websites will have up to 1000 visitors daily. However if you just want your website to be visited by an international visitor, then its essential you promote your product or service.

Now submitting articles is, in my opinion the best way to get backlinks and drive FREE targeted traffic. No matter products or services what you promote on internet. Here are DOUBLE benefits from using this method:

1. Drive direct FREE targeted visitors from hundreds of high traffic sites. Submitting articles to article directories is free advertising at its best! Thousands of highly targeted visitors will be visiting your website, clicking on your affiliate links or ordering your products.

2. Increase your page rank and link popularity. Article marketing is the fast speedway way to get one way high PR links. If your site is found to have hundreds of links on other websites pointing to it, they conclude that your site must be popular. This helps the Search Engines determine Page Rank. Page Rank relates to value, and value decides how high up in a Search Engines listing your site will be placed. To increase page rank for your website, you need submit to hundreds of article directories to get hundred backlinks.

Please let me to explain you about article marketing strategy. No matter job what you have, you can spend 1-2 hours per day. For each article directory, you need to spend 2 minutes to submit this. It means that you able to submit 30 article directories in 1 hour. Average targeted visitors from each article directory is 50. Let we do the math:

30 article directories (you spend 1 hour per day) x 30 days (1 month) x 50 visitors = 45,000 visitors The average visitor-to-sales conversion on internet is one percent. 45,000 visitors x 1% = 450 buyer. It is good! And you get hundred backlinks plus your website page rank increased in mere days. It is double FREE traffic. First, from article directories. And from search engines. How long will you spend for the article marketing? All are up to you.