I want to find some ways to increase my web traffic for my website; what are some ways to go about it without having to pay?

The best approach to increasing yoru website traffic to your website is through search engines. You need to optimize your website to obtain higher ranking in search engines, here are some good ideas to help you do so:

1st try to get more back links to your website and the easiest way to do thats is by submitting your website to free web directories such as:

http://www.lii.org

http://www.dmoz.org

http://www.surformation.com

Backlinks provide higher ranking in search engine, but most importantly, links drive direct traffic to your website when visitors clicks on your links.

2nd Try promoting your website on social networking and internet communities such as

http://www.twitter.com,

http://www.digg.com,

http://www.stumbleupon.com

This is where web surfers are spending a big deal of their time, so have your share of visitors.

3rd and most importantly, provide quality content, this is an indirect way to get back links by genuinely driving people to link to your website.

4th make sure that your meta tags ( web page titles and description) match the content of your pages, this is a huge part of search engine optimization and drives traffic from search engine to your website