The best method to generate free traffic is to get your website ranked high on the SERP of major search engines, Google, Yahoo and MSN. How do you do that?

By building quality one way back links to your website. There are many methods to build quality back links to your webpages.

There are many link exchanges. Dont use them, avoid them. Reciprocal links dont have much value with the search engines. Only one way backlinks count with Google.

Some webmasters try to use software that can bookmark their webpages on the social bookmarking sites like propeller, spurl, mixx, digg etc. These social bookmarking sites have high Page Rank (PR) of 6, 7 and 8. So these backlinks may have some value with the search engines.

The only problem with these bookmarking links in that it falls into the area of black hat SEO. Try to avoid it. Your site may get banned on Google and other search engines.

The best method to build backlinks is to write articles. Article marketing has been the consistent and time tested method used by SEO experts to build one way quality back links to their sites.