how to get more traffic to your website for free

You can work for months and months of constant SEO and not get anywhere with search engine rankings.
If you run an ice cream truck business, what is one thing you would want that your opponent couldnt get to get ahead?
better ice cream?
faster trucks?
better locations?

NOOOOOOOO!
a hungry crowd. If your opposition only goes to neighborhoods that arent hungry for ice cream, and you do. you will win.

the key to getting massive traffic fast to your site is specificity. go to google right now, start typing something you heard on the news and look at how many results show up. now put it in quotes. and the results are low

these key phrases are going to be searched all day because people here them on the news, so what do you do? write an article throw in the key phrases and boom you take off. its pretty simple, with the right words