Free, Targeted Website Advertising and Traffic

Here I'm going to teach you a few ways I've learned over the years to receive free, targeted traffic (so no autosurfs or other garbage, useless traffic). It's all free, a few sites have paid options that I give here and I've had success with all.
Search Engine Optimization is simply the art of getting on the front page of your keyword list. Until you grow your page rank and backlinks, it may be hard to get high on top ranking keywords; so you're going to want to focus on lower level keywords (sometimes questions, like 'How to get free traffic to your website) is suggested. Being on the front page of a keyword with over 40 million results usually brings you around a thousand unique hits a day. SEO is the cheapest way to get free traffic, and I'd say, defiantly the best.

Plugboards can OCCASIONALLY provide a strong flow of traffic but it is often small and dicey but targeted. Here are a few good plugboards that have high exposure

Article Submission is a great way to get free traffic by promoting the content on your website. You can get hundreds if not thousands of hits from linkbacks on article submission sites. Oh yeah, and these sites are like SEO fuel; quality backlinks from quality sites. If you get one of these websites to submit your article, you will be on the front page of the website for a day which will deliver you several hundred unique hits.

Link Referral & Clones; If you're on the front page of the categories on one of these websites, you will receive 15-45 unique hits a day; they are generally targeted, but the amount of hits you receive isn't the highlight. You can get quality reviews on your website, so if people really can't see the text on your website because of your tiny font size, you'll find out about it pretty fast.

Paid ads with free options. These services offer paid advertisement but have trials or a free program to go with them. I'm an advid user of most of these services; they have all yielded amazing results.

Topsites aren't really the best way to get your site targeted traffic but they do get you some traffic while ranking you against your competitors, getting reviewed, and getting visitor stats. Best of all, it's free and they don't disclose your visitors information.

Commenting on blogs and websites (especially related to yours) will probably get a unique hit for every comment (by the owner) but remember not to be spammy, and only leave your site in the specific URL bar. It is rare that you'll have too much success on long term and targeted traffic but if anything, it will boost your coverage on the web and more people will know about you.
Link Exchanges are where you agree to link to one site in exchange for a link to your site. On the smaller website niches, these are often called affiliates. They do build backlinks but they aren't one way backlinks and can actually hurt your search rankings. All in all, it gets your name out there but don't deliver amazing amounts of traffic, generally just fellow web masters looking for more link exchanges.
There you have it! I'm constantly updating this list just to make it more informative -- feel free to suggest more to us any time, using the contact forms.