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If you ask people with knowledge of the World wide web how one might go about making money online, a common reply might be "Try affiliate marketing." Affiliate marketing has a reputation as a way of making cash easily and quickly, a notion that many people quickly discover to be folly. In theory, all you  do is create a small Website that sings the praises of a particular product and wait for your visitors to come to your website, click your link and buy. If that happens, you earn a commission.

But what if you have no visitors to your Website?

The single most common question in affiliate marketing forums on the Web is "How can I draw visitors to my Website?" It's easy to build a website and easy to say nice things about a product, but if you have no visitors to your Website, you’ll make no sales.

Here are several tips as to how you can draw visitors to your Website who are serious about your products:

Learn about search engine optimization, or SEO. You can pay a company to "tweak" your Web site so that visitors can find it in the search engines, but it isn't very difficult to learn how to do it yourself. A speedy search of Google will lead you to a number of Web sites that can tell you how to optimize your site for the product you’re selling. The primary factor in consumers being able to find your site in a search engine is whether or not the engines think that your web site is "about" the right topic. If your Web site is about auto repair, but you have text that mostly talks about tools, the search engines may mail the wrong visitors to your site.

Use links to your Website in your signature block on forums devoted to on the Internet marketing. As a bonus, you will learn more about marketing from such forums. There are perhaps a hundred of them on the Internet, and each one represents a fantastic opportunity to learn and get links to your Web sites.

Submit articles to article directories on the Web. There are hundreds of them out there, and you can include a link to your website in each article you publish in what is called a "bio box." These articles can quickly propagate around the Internet, leading to hundreds or even thousands of links for you.

Produce pages at sites such as Squidoo or HubPages, or take out a paid advertisement at USFreeAds.com.

Each of the methods described above works a little bit, but collectively they do a very good job of making a Web site more "visible" to consumers who might be excited about seeing it. By employing all of these methods for each Web site you build, you should be able to generate a acceptable amount of traffic to your Website. As an added benefit, all of these methods are free and none of them are as well hard or time consuming to employ.

Traffic is the lifeblood of any Website. Without it, your Website might as well not exist.