Increasing traffic is one of the top items on any marketer's agenda and the number of methods in which to accomplish this task is ad infinitum.

We can't cover all of the various methods but we can expound on a number of ways that can seriously affect the overall performance of increasing the traffic to your website.

Below you will find some proven strategies that will truly increase traffic to your site:

Bookmark This Site.

Tell your visitors to "bookmark this site" but be sure that your site is worthy of being bookmarked. Let them know that your content is continuously being changed and new items are being added every week. This should give them some incentive to click on your bookmarked site.

Subscribe To Our Free Ezine, newsletter or e-course

You should offer an Ezine, newsletter or e-course of some kind on your site so that every time your visitor receives your publication, it will remind them to return to your site. These types of publications are not difficult to obtain. If you do not write your own, you can get web based e-courses to offer on your site and they are free. Just do a google search for free e-courses.

Offer A Forum, Chat Room or Discussion Board

These site enhancements will really give your site some individualism. A forum, chat room or discussion board will give your visitor a reason to return . By participating, your visitor will meet others with similar interests. Most web hosts offer forums, or chat rooms however, if not, you can get them at www.bravenet.com for free.

Use Our Free Content On Your Site

A great way to advertise your website is to write articles or reports. You can offer your articles or reports to visitors to place on their websites for free. You get the exposure as an author, your website gets exposure and your visitor gets free content. A win, win situation.

Refer A Friend

Hopefully your site offers enough interest that a visitor would be willing to refer it to a friend. You can obtain a script that will produce a Refer-A-Friend form on your site. This is a great way to increase visitors and also help build your list. To get a form, just google it.

Sign My Guestbook

It wouldnt hurt one bit to put a Sign My Guestbook button on all of your pages. People like to leave there mark, theyll sign your book with a comment and then a week later come back and check it, just to see how many others have signed after them. You can see how this little item can entice them back again and again.

Take An Online Survey

Some people like to participate in surveys. You can offer a survey that will consist of questions concerning how to improve your website. Then you could use the results of the survey to help you decide how to change your site to encourage more and repeat visitors. Where do you get a survey script? Need I say it again...google.

Enter Our Contest!

Contests are very popular. People like to win things...anything. You could have a contest to see who could refer the most visitors to your site and use the survey script you just got to decide the winners. Make the prize a couple of your niche eBooks or even better, some viral eBooks to broadcast your website. Wow. were cooking now.

Give Away Freebies

Now, everybody likes freebies. You can give away eBooks, software, script or what-have-you but just be sure that you are not breaking any copyright rules. Some items cannot be given away free but those items that can should always be branded with your website address, and a link to your squeeze page to capture a name and email address.

Join My Affiliate Program

If you have a couple of your own products that are ready to market, consider inviting your website visitors to become one of your affiliates. Just by having some affiliates they will automatically link to your website or sales page and they will increase your traffic with their promotions.

Well, we've presented a few methods that will increase your website traffic. Any one of the above will help garner a few new visitors and who knows what might happen if you used them all! Look out #1, here I come.