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One of the quickest and easiest ways to draw traffic to your website is through the regular use of commenting on blogs. There are many good reasons to participate in the discussions on other blogs, and no apparent drawbacks except perhaps a small initial investment of time.

Taking advantage of other blog owner’s readership is simple. If you have a website about gourmet food, for example, you will want to find a handful of blogs that have to do with cooking, food preparation, or recipes. Those would be the most obvious topics, but you can think outside the box as well. A blog that focuses on family life or the life of a mom may have the type of readers who would love to find out more about gourmet foods.

Try subscribing to a few of these blogs, hopefully finding ones that already have a stream of steady blog comments. This way you know there are enough readers to make it worth your while, as it does take some time to leave a comment in response to a blog post.

Most importantly, do make your comments meaningful. Becoming a trusted blog visitor is important, and eventually the other visitors will be interested in what you do–and click through your signature to your site.

The power of the internet is at times unbelievable. We can now reach potential readers and customers through so many various means that it would be possible to spend all day at the computer networking. You may even do just that! However, with the increased use of instant communication through social networking, those who are new to the internet are still using the slower and steady forms of marketing.

Blog posts, forum participation, and professional networking are all great ways to reach potential visitors to your site–and it all happens behind the scenes while you’re offline.

Blog posts with links to your site are a great tool for drawing in free traffic. The posts stay up as long as you want them to, and direct links to them can also be shared via social networking indefinitely, with the use of permalinks.

Participating in forums is also a great way to make contacts who are truly interested in what you might have to offer. Gaining trust is important here, so you may need to be a forum member for quite some time before you will see a big return on leaving a link in your signature line.

Professional networking sites such as LinkedIn are also a great way to get the word out and drive free traffic to your site. List all your websites in your professional profile, and they’re there for anyone who joins your network to see and follow.