We have listed below several free information sources that will help you better understand various aspects of how to generate traffic for your website, blog or affiliate marketing opportunities.
Adwords Made Easy Brad Callen's step-by-step explanation of how to maximize your Google Adwords Campaigns. The techniques covered generally work well for other major search engines (pdf).
Smart and Safe Backlink Building Guide The FTS team provide some sound advice on how to build backlinks effectively and safely as part of your overall SEO efforts (pdf).
DoFollow Blog Directory If you are doing your own SEO you will probably want to post blog comments on DoFollow blogs. This is a directory of DoFollow blogs broken down by broad categories.
DoFollow Forums If you are doing your own SEO it is a good idea to engage in relevant forums that have DoFollow for your profile and signature links. This is a list of some of these DoFollow forums broken down into broad categories and PageRank.
Site Achieve If you are new to SEO, Site Achieve is a great place to start and is completely free to join and use. There are a number of 'must read' SEO articles, a chance to have your site reviewed by other members plus a built-in link exchange facility.
Warrior Forum The Warrior Forum is a great source of ideas and information for internet marketers, including excellent discussion threads for methods of generating website traffic. The forum is free to join and use.
A Web Business Explained Chris Farrell offers this free 26 video course on how to build a web business. No registration is required, you can just go ahead and view the videos straight from your browser.