7 Effective Ways to Get Free Traffic

1. Free Classifieds - This system works more effectively, especially if you have ‘Make Money Online’ related websites. There are some popular Free Classifieds Websites around there to post your ads for free, just make a search ‘Free Classifieds’ ‘Post Ads’ etc in Google and you can find some good classifieds sites list. The title of your ad must be attention grabbing to make it stand out from the rest. The description should be short but informative. Don’t forget to add your website url in the ad form.

2. Link Exchange - Make relevant link exchange with other sites and preferably on homepage. If not, try to add your link on their directory. It will help to get traffic both from their sites visitors and also it boosts Search Engines Rankings. Don’t try exchange with Link Farms, also don’t exchange links with more than 100 links in that page.

3. Blog Traffic - Create a Blog in Blogspot.com and make some posts with good content and make a link on your main website, it helps start getting traffic from Search Engines quickly, especially from Google. Update your blog regularly, so that the Search Engines spiders crawl your blog at regular intervals. Ping your blog whenever you update. Generate RSS feeds to your blog, so that visitors can read in a RSS reader right on their desktop.

4. Opt-in Email Lists - Its very important on getting repeated visitors to your website and this can be done by capturing visitors email address. You can send emails whenever you update the website. Use autoresponders like aweber or freeautobot for follow-up emails. Don’t bombard with emails daily with offers. It is a surefire way to make your visitors click the unsubscribe link. Give an interval of minimum 2-3 days for each mail.

5. Forum Traffic - Its another important factor getting free traffic from discussion forums, make a search ‘keyword+forum’ on Google to find your website related forums and add your url in the signature. Make some useful conversations with others and don’t try to promote your products or offers directly in the posts. It also helps on SEO aspects.

6. Writing Articles - If you have enough time and having writing skills, write articles on topics that interests you and submit to article sites. Content will always be the king and most of the websites look for content to add on regular basis. If your articles are informative enough, they are more likely to get published on other websites. Don’t forget to add your website link in resource box of the article.

7. Ebook Traffic - Compile some useful information about your niche and make it an ebook and give it away for free to others. Add your website link in the ebook and allow the permissions to give it away for free to others. You can also entice your visitors to sign up for your list by offering the ebook in return.

LEDs could start replacing lightbulbs soon

Light-emitting diodes will become economically attractive as replacements for conventional lightbulbs in about two years, a shift that could pave the way for massive electricity conservation, according to a researcher.

Right now, consumers and businesses can buy a light-emitting diode, or LED, that provides about the same level of illumination as an energy-hogging conventional 60-watt lightbulb, Steven DenBaars, a professor of material science at the University of California Santa Barbara, said at the SEMI NanoForum, taking place here this week. A principal advantage of the LED: It lasts about 100,000 hours, far longer than the conventional filament bulb

Unfortunately, the LEDs that can perform this task cost about $60, he said. (Prices vary on the Internet.) But prices have been declining by 50 percent a year, so two years from now the same LED should cost around $20.

To make matters worse, traditional lightbulbs are incredibly inefficient. Only about 5 percent of the energy that goes into them turns into light. The majority gets dissipated as heat.

If 25 percent of the lightbulbs in the U.S. were converted to LEDs putting out 150 lumens per watt (higher than the commercial standard now), the U.S. as a whole could save $115 billion in utility costs, cumulatively, by 2025, and it would alleviate the need to build 133 new coal-burning power stations.

In turn, carbon emissions in the atmosphere would go down by 258 million metric tons.

"Multiply that by three and you get the worldwide savings," he stated. DenBaars then showed a picture of the globe at night. The landmass of the U.S. could easily be picked out by nighttime lights.

"We shoot a lot of light into space that doesn't need to be there," he noted.

Rising prices of electricity, combined with the antiquated nature of lightbulb technology, has prompted several start-ups and large industrial concerns to get into lighting.

Fiberstars, for instance, has come up with a way to replace hot fluorescent tube lights with light-emitting optical fiber in freezer cases in grocery stores. Hewlett-Packard spinoff Lumileds is also producing LEDs for a variety of applications.

LED technology is improving as well. UCSB has created an experimental LED that can put out 117 lumens per watt, while a Japanese company has developed one that can put out 130 lumens per watt.

Getting LEDs to produce white light that is tolerable to humans has also greatly improved. Manufacturers can do it two ways. One is to package red, green and blue LEDs in a way that the combined light shines white to the human eye. The other way is to make blue LEDs and coat them with a phosphor--a luminescent substance commonly used on fluorescent lamps