Building traffic is important for earning income with your web site. Every webmaster needs visitors to click their Google Adsense ads, buy their affiliate products, or sign up for their newsletter.

If you're on a budget, you'll need to consider free or low-cost ways to drive visitors to your site.

Most free traffic methods tend to be labor intensive, though, so organization and time management are imperative to not wasting time and effort.

Free traffic methods:

• writing articles
• posting in forums
• commenting on blogs
• hit exchange sites
• you can probably think of others

Did I say labor intensive? Yes, you will have to do some work.

Did I say free? Make that trade your time for traffic.

However, if you forget which forum you signed up on or the URL for it, as well as the password and username, you'll probably lose your motivation and not bother.

First, get organized:
Make a list of all the activities you plan to do to drive traffic to your site. List specific forums you post to, blogs you comment on, article directories you submit to, etc.

Now make a job description from these activities. How many posts will you make per day? How many hits will you click for? How many articles will you write? You're the boss, so give yourself some orders!

Set up a web page:
To save time, consider setting up a simple web page consisting of links to the various sites you need to go to.

It doesn't need to be a work of art, just record the information.

Make it easy to get to your traffic-building sites with a simple click.

• < a href="../www.firstsite.com" >Forum site
• < a href="../www.secondsite.com" >Blog site
• < a href="../www.ezinearticles.com" >Ezine Articles site
• etc.

If you don't have a web site, use the free web space you have with your ISP or any free site provider. Then keep that page listed in your favorites so you can access it easily.

Include your username and password information on your web page so you don't have to look for it on scraps of paper all over your desk.

Now that you've planned your work, you can work your plan! Promote your web site in a methodical manner and watch the payoff!