The top three, free internet marketing ideas are providing online entrepreneurs the ability to draw continuous traffic to their websites.
Because online advertising is entirely different from traditional advertising, an online entrepreneur needs to take a completely fresh look at their promotion methods.
Unlike traditional advertising, where almost all effective promotion needs to be paid for, there are surprisingly three top effective ideas for the Internet that are available totally free.
To be sure, there are paid methods but a lot of people choose the free methods because they work so well.
Here are the top three free internet marketing ideas:

• Article marketing.
  Because people use the web to search for virtually everything, a well written article with superior content that is fun to read can reach out to a surprising number of people.
  The trick is to use well chosen keywords that will ensure that these article ranks high on any search results and to include links to the website in the article.
  Because the content must be of the highest quality, care should be taken to avoid any overt selling pitches and to ensure that the content is genuinely informative.
  With a little research, it is not particularly difficult to produce a good article.
  For additional credibility, the article should be submitted one or more well-known article directories.
  
• Social marketing networks.
  Social network sites like Twitter and Facebook are now hugely popular and used by millions of people.
  Not only is this a great opportunity for the online entrepreneur to touch base with a lot of people but it also affords an excellent platform for him to disseminate information about his business.
  This has to be carefully handled as blatant sales pitch will tend to turn off people.
  Nevertheless, if the information is made interesting enough, it will soon spread like a ripple in a pond.
  
• Blogging.
  A good blog can build up a large fan following if it is interesting and informative.
  A well written blog with links to the entrepreneur's web site can be quite effective in driving traffic to the website.
  The entrepreneur has to ensure that the blog is updated frequently with new posts so that visitors continue to return.
  A number of blogging sites such as Blogspot offer free blogging infrastructure.