Free Ways To Promote Your Website
Website traffic - I guess this subject is one of the
most popular subject in the web marketing. If you just
started with your website and haven’t got too
much cash to spare on advertising, you need to find
ways to get some free web site traffic. I’ll try
to share here with you some of the ways to start driving
visitors to your website.
Let’s be honest – none of this ways will
bring you thousands of visitors in a day. But most of
this methods will help you to announce your website,
start getting some visitors and build up good traffic
in future.
Search Engines: It is
the most important traffic source for you. This can
your biggest source of traffic now and ever if you optimized&
submitted
your site properly. There are thousands of search engines
on the web, but in reality you need to set the priority
to get submitted to the main ones first: AltaVista,
Excite, Yahoo, Hotbot, Lycos, Northern Light, Infoseek,
Webcrawler. Then you can use some Free web based submission
tools to submit to smaller search engines. See for example
INeedHits
site
Don’t forget about the directories. Submission
to directories almost always have to be done manually.
The most important directories out there are: Yahoo,
Magellan, DMOZ
Exchange links with other sites.
You might not get a huge traffic flow from this, but
link popularity is important to your search engines
ranking. Read more about this in our article
about link popularity.
Publish your ezine: If
you are planning to start a newsletter or ezine on your
website make sure you register it with ezine libraries.
There are plenty of Ezine directories on the Net. Take
a look at a few of the more popular ezine
directories to get an idea of just how many ezines
there are. Submitting your ezine to this directories
can help you to get new visitors to your site, interested
in what you have to say.
If you don't know what ezine is, Click
here to learn more about it.
Write an Article –
hundreds of webmasters around the Net are trying to
find a good content for their website. If you can share
your knowledge with them it can benefit you both. When
you wrote an article, submit it to ezine articles directories.
Articles can re-printed by webmasters for free if they
include author’s info & links. So you’ll
get free links pointing to your sites and this links
can be very effective, because if you what you wrote
is an interesting content then people would want to
hear more of what you have to say.
Free Classifieds. Hmm..
not exactly the best source for web traffic, but why
not give it a try. After all it’s free and even
if you get only few visits from them it would be still
worth it. Especially if you use automated tools to do
submissions for you. Read more on the subject in our
article about classified
ads
Banner exchange: Exchanging
banner impressions with other sites or within a network.
This is 2 way street – if you don’t have
a lot of traffic and can’t provide good number
of banner impressions, then you will not get a lot of
your banner impressions. However many banner exchange
networks will give you free impressions as a sign-up
bonus. It can be something from 5000 to 25 000 impressions.
You can use them to start the ball rolling and get some
traffic to your site. We are giving some valuable info
on the subject in our article
about banner exchange.
You do need to have a banner for your website to participate
in banner exchange. Since we are talking about free
staff, here is a good place to get a template for your
banner which you can customize yourself - FreeBanners.org.
Signature file. A short
message that you can include at the end of your e-mail
messages, which can contain description of your website
and services. It can have a good effect and free too
So here are few ways to start getting visitors to your
website. All of them are free and you can start working
on your web site traffic right now!
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