Best way to increase target traffic to the website is writing informative articles and freely distribute them to other webmasters. It is totally free and will be helpful in getting links to the website and No need to pay for the links... no need to give a return link on your own website to other sites. It will increase the target traffic from the search engines:

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This is surely going to help in increasing website traffic. but there is need lot of care while writing articles as articles should be orignal, should not be copy pasted. As content is king and search engine love content alot so if site is having content providing good knowledge to visitors then that site is surely going be at top in search engine results.

There are number lists of directories that are available on internet. just need to search any one can get number of article submission directories. Earlier only directory submission was a way to increase the link popularity of website. but now popularity is not restricted to directory submission. There are number of ways which are going to help more and more. Article marketing is of the best way to get the targeted traffic to site