Gone were the days when bloggers could generate the full traffic that they needed to skyrocket their sites in search engine result pages (SERPs) with content alone. Though content was king and will remain so for life no matter the frequent changes in the search algorithm.

Why will content never stop being the king of all blogging routines? Let's look into this below:

Blogging is more of writing than socializing, creating videos, and all of that. Because of this, it becomes the most crucial ranking signal in the search algorithm.

Though it wasn't categorically mentioned that content appears first in the search algorithm with links following, there's a higher probability that it appears first in the search algorithms as the most crucial ranking signal while links appear the second most crucial ranking factor, and RankBrain, the third.

In today's tutorial, I'll enumerate how you can get real and targeted traffic for your website without spending a dime on Pay-Per-Click advertising (PPC).

Here are the tactics for getting free targeted traffic for your website:

1. Write rich, fully-informative, and helpful content on your blog
   
2. Publish content every day to boost your Alexa rank
3. Build links with Quora
4. Build links with Forum posting
5. Build links with guest posting
6. Build links with blog commenting
7. Build engagement with your site audience for a better search engine ranking