One thing you can be sure of when doing business on the internet is that the more traffic your blog or website receives, the more likely you are to be successful. Many marketers and other internet businesses therefore have increasing traffic to their website as one of their top priorities. While it might seem like a daunting task, there are actually some easy ways to increase your Web traffic on a consistent basis.

Buying traffic is certainly one way to increase the number of visitors to your website, and you can do this through pay per click ad campaigns on Google (its AdWords service remains the industry leader), or other types of advertising on various ad and publisher networks. While this is an easy path to more traffic, it does have a number of downsides.

First, the only way to sustain the increased traffic is to continue spending money, and many internet-based businesses simply don