Just as bread is not the only thing to keep you alive, setting up a blog with an attractive theme is not just enough to make it popular. If you really want to get your blog noticed, you must implement ways to generate traffic.

Although there are hundreds of different ways to increase traffic, but money is a big factor for new bloggers. Why not start with some free but effective ways to generate traffic to your blog or website. Check out with few of such effective ones that you can start of with.

• Search Engine Submissions: Almost 84% of the traffic is generated by submissions to search engines. Inspite of millions of competitors, a little study and research with traffic Building positions, link popularity and meta tags will keep you growing through this process. Soon you will start getting 100s and 1000s of daily hits from top search engines.

• Yahoo Classifieds: Classified ads works great, but there are only a few free one’s that actually work. Yahoo is one of the most reliable sources among the free ad sites. As compared to any other sites, Yahoo has more traffic and allows you to place 10 advertisements at a single go. One of the effective key is to delete your ads every after few days and replace them with new ones that your attract more free readers.

• Trade Links: If your site or blog has some strong and good contents, another best way is to trade links with other webmasters. Develop contents that others would be interested to link to and increase your contacts by visiting other blogs or websites. You can further increase your contacts and popularity of your blog by sending personalized emails and networking in different discussion groups.

• Banner Exchanges: Regular banner exchanges are not much effective as they can only fetch you a few hits a month, which is too less. Here’s a new way of exchanging banners where you get a credit of 5% to 20% of banner impressions of a blog or site that has been referred by you. So, much obviously if you refer any blog or site with good hits, you will also get large number of free impressions a month.

• Offer Free Stuff: One of the top ways to generate traffic is by offering free stuffs. The more you can provide with free content and services that people are actually running after such as free downloads, programs and many free deals, you will definitely gain in this way.

• Own Mailing List: Start your own mailing list and start earning money online. If you have your own mailing list, you can also use it to trade ads with others.