Free Traffic Today - Her's a list of free traffic applications, ads, marketing tools, social networking sites and other Free Traffic Generators. To see details of how best to use each of these, check out the linked blogs at the end of this roladex...

Applications

Podsubmitter – If you have podcasts you want to submit to multiple sites, you can do it with Podsubmitter. It will allow you to submit to up to 55 directories for free. It is located at: http://www.podsubmitter.com .

Submitarticlesfree – An online place to submit a free article and have it published in various places around the web. Make sure you can use your own author bio and link for it to have the desired effect. It is located here: http://www.submitarticlesfree.com .

TubeMogul – This site allows you to syndicate your videos to multiple sites at one time. It can also help you bookmark them. TubeMogul can help with some market research too as it tracks people viewing videos. It is located here: http://www.tubemogul.com .

Blog Platforms

Wordpress – This is the premiere blogging platform with plenty of widgets and add-ins to make your blog stand out. You can use Wordpress.org if you want to use your own hosting site, or you can use Wordpress.com for a limited type of blog and use your own domain name with it for the best results. It is located here: http://www.wordpress.com . Or for the version you install on your own domain, you can go here: http://www.wordpress.org .

Blogger – Another well-known blogging platform. It allows you to use Google Adsense. It is not as integrated with other blogs on the same site, like Wordpress, so it can be harder to generate cross-traffic. It is located here: http://www.blogger.com .

Blog Plug-Ins

All In One SEO Pack – This plug-in helps to generate descriptions and keywords automatically that are SEO friendly to attract search engine traffic. It is located here: http://wp.uberdose.com/2007/03/24/all-in-one-seo-pack/ .

SimpleTags – Another plug-in that allows you generate tags for your blog entries. This one focuses on Technorati tags though. It is located here: http://www.broobles.com/scripts/simpletags/ .

Classified Ads

Craigslist.com – This site is like a giant garage sale online. You can advertise almost anything you want online here for free. It is separated by geographic regions so that your post won't show outside the region you submit it to. However, you can post multiple ads in different regions, if they are sufficiently different. It is located here: http://www.craigslist.com .

Facebook Classified Ads – In facebook, there is an area called the Marketplace where you can post classified ads for free. They will be made visible either by the networks you are in or to your circle of friends. It is located within the Facebook interface.

Groups

Yahoo! Groups – This search engine also serves as a portal for some social networking. Yahoo! Groups are very popular places and easily searched by category. The interface is not that customizable. You do have the option to get a daily digest, separate emails, or no notice of updates to the group. It is located here: http://groups.yahoo.com/?ch=web&pub=fp-us&t=fp&sec=link&slk=defaultrough .

Google Groups – They allow much more customization of the interface. You can search groups by categories here too. You can even set up shared web pages in the group. It is located here: http://groups.google.com/ .

Facebook Groups - You have to join Facebook to join one of their groups. Once you build a profile in Facebook, you can start looking through the groups available to  join on the left-hand menu on the old interface, and on the right-hand menu on the new Facebook interface. They allow you to network more on Facebook and build your circle of friends through interaction on this site. It is located within Facebook, after you join here: http://www.facebook.com .

Market Research Tools

Alexa – Find the traffic rankings of sites online. This site uses its own toolbar to gain statistics on various sites, so while it's a good representation, it's not 100% accurate. It depends on if the visitor to your site had an Alexa toolbar installed as to whether they count them as traffic. However, it can be a great way to do market research on your competitors traffic patterns and see when they are going up and when they are going down. It is located at: http://www.alexa.com .

Quantacast – If you want a bird's eye view of different competitors or audience demographics, use Quantacast. You can get a breakdown of gender, age, education level, and income of the people visiting sites online. This can be very helpful in figuring out which audiences your competitors have targeted and which you should be targeting too. This is located at: http://www.quantacast.com .

News Feed Aggregators

My Yahoo – This aggregator is so easy to use that many people don't even know that they are using news feeds. It's a matter of simply searching through categories and feed titles and them choosing to insert them into your My yahoo page. It's not obvious that what people are inserting are feeds, except for the feed icon. It can allow you to list news feed of your interests that updates automatically on one page. Then, you just visit your my yahoo page for the news your want, and nothing else. It is located here at: http://my.yahoo.com  .

Newsgator - This aggregator works with Microsoft Outlook. The Newsgator Online RSS feed is a software package that is free to download and use on your desktop and there is even a mobile version available for cell phones. It is located here: http://www.newsgator.com .

Yahoo Pipes - This aggregator helps you compile RSS feeds from other RSS feeds and put them into a pipe. You have the option to search for feeds, combine them any way you like. This pipe can then be outputted as another RSS feed that you can use to deliver fresh content to your readers. It is located here: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ .

Search Engines

Google.com – The major search engine online. It has a Google Adsense program that allows people to monetize their content and creates opportunities for advertisers. The search rankings are very competitive and based on an algorithm developed by Google software engineers and programmed into code. It is located here: http://www.Google.com .

Yahoo! - This is another leading search engine. It also uses it's own algorithm to determine ranking. They do use different criteria so you can rank higher here than in Google. It does not have a monetization program like Google. However, it does have some aspects of social networking on the site, including groups, feed readers, email, and more. It is located here: http://www.yahoo.com .

StumbleUpon – This is a search engine and social bookmarking site all rolled into one. They use a rating system that is driven by people visiting sites, recommending them, and categorizing them and tagging them. These are then served up to other people in a random fashion called “stumbling the web.” It has a great capability to increase your traffic. It is located here: http://www.stumbleupon.com .

Ezclassifieds - This site offers people the ability to create classified ad programs to use in  affiliate programs. They offer a way to help you make classified ads very quickly for specific products or geographic regions. You share 50% of the revenues generated from the classified ads. It is located here: http://www.ezclassifieds.com .

Social Bookmarking Sites

Delicious – Also known as del.icio.us. It offers a toolbar to be able to quickly tag your own sites or others on the web. It can give you the ability to create tag clouds that you can insert into blogs and other media online. It is located here: http://delicious.com .

Digg – This site makes it very easy to rate and comment bookmarked pages of news. They also have the categories of bookmarks separated by the media type for easier searching. It is a widely used social bookmarking site. Getting on the front page of Digg is a sure way to traffic heaven! It is located here: http://www.digg.com .

Social Networking Sites

Facebook – This was developed for the collegiate market and later expanded to professionals as these people graduated from college. The interface is clean and crisp, without a lot of extraneous stuff. It allows people to connect with others in their own network. It offers a profile and several ways to market yourself to your friends, although you are not allowed to spam marketing hype on your profile or elsewhere. It has many applications you can add to boost your profile or add marketing features to your profile. It is located here: http://www.facebook.com .

LinkedIn - This social networking site has a far more business-like and professional flavor. It is noted for helping people network to find new jobs or business opportunities. It is located here: http://www.linkedin.com .

MySpace – This site is for a younger, louder, generation. It allows much more flexibility with the profile in terms of customization of colors, backgrounds, and more. It attracts a lot of teenagers. You can have a profile here and another at Facebook. It doesn't matter how many social networking sites you belong to. It is located here: http://www.myspace.com .

Squidoo – This site allows you to define your brand and even promote and market products. It is more of a marketer's social network and is based on the creation of lenses that are focal points of interest that you want to highlight about your personal expertise or your business. It is located here: http://www.squidoo.com .

Twitter – A social networking site with minute-by-minute updates, if that's what you like. It's unlike the other sites, but hugely popular, particularly for mobile phone updates. Well worth investigating at: http://www.twitter.com .

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