Today I´m gonna write about 3  free traffic sources par excellence the 3 of them have the attribute to generate residual traffic if used accurately. It is easy to figure out misconceptions when using these methods of traffic generation mainly Article Marketing and Traffic Exchanges, the third one is Affiliate traffic. These are very powerful methods without doubt and once you turn on the flame of all them 3 you will be receiving traffic with little or no effort from your part anymore.

Article / BUM Marketing

The term BUM Marketing was coined by Travis Sago (actually by Travis´s wife) ´cause they say that even a bum taken from the street would be able to make money with this method. What this method is about implies writing articles about that what you are offering describing the benefits of it and submitting the articles to article directories.

Article directories are nowadays very popular places for people looking for niche information and, if you write articles about your niche, chances are that even the publisher of an eZine with a huge list of subscribers can grab your article and publish it on its eZine entitling you to receive a lot of targeted traffic since you are placing a resource box with a link to your site, blog or in some cases even to your affiliate links.

I highly recommend you to study the free BUM marketing Method by Travis Sago HERE

Here you can find some interesting Article Directories to which you can submit your articles.

If you are already writing articles and sending them manually I´m sure you´ll enoy this great tool: Brad Callen´s Article Submitter. You can even download a free version.

Affiliate Programs

Integrating your own affiliate program and/or selling your products through an affiliate programs provider as Clickbank or Paydotcom enables you to leverage the selling power of powerful affiliate marketers that can multiply several time your selling and traffic generation power.

When you are promoting your own or a X-Rights product that you can use to  your advantage,  you´re able to promote it in several ways but, if you and x number of affilates are promoting these products you´ll get a very higher return with less effort from your part.

It´s very important to pay well your affiliates which will turnning out into a win-win situation where you and your affiliates get real value from the symbiotic relationship. 50% or higher is very good comissions if you implement a 2 tiers program as my Affiliate Program the exponential power will be true faster than you could imagine.

Promote quality products could be yours and/or some kind of rights ones, levarage the power of an affiliate selling force and get and share your money.

If you are an affiliate marketer see my Catalogue HERE. My Affiliate Program pays 2 tiers comissions, 50% from your sales and 25% from your sub-affiliates´ sales. If you are interested in developing a Home Based Internet Business through affiliate products, membership sites, blogging, video marketing or alike internet marketing topics have a look to my HBBKH Membership HERE.

Traffic Exchanges

Traffic Exchanges are very tricky and powerful sources of semi-targeted traffic. In order to acurately leverage the power of Traffic Exchanges you must advertise your benefits through a Squeeze Page in which you´ll satisfy a particular need within a particular niche offering value to people that opted in.

Traffic Exchanges are an amazing source of people that will satisfy some of their necessities through the resources they can reach inside your mailing list. Building a network within traffic exchanges grants you the benefit of enjoying the fruits you can get from residual traffic. In a future post I´ll write about my Exponential Traffic System which can help you build a traffic network leveraging the power of traffic Exchanges.

Advertising Know How a Robert Puddy´s site is offering an integrated system to build your Traffic Exchanges network on 5 excellent providers. If you aren´t an Advertising Know How member you can become one HERE.