Friday, September 4, 2009

How to promote your website without paid ads!

It’s easy to set up a website, but not easy to get it known! I’ve worked on my website for 10 months. When I first started my website www.solefans.com, I had decided not to spend money on ads. So I surfed the Internet for SEO methods and communicated with others in some SEO forums. Finally, I concluded 10 most effective ways to promoting websites or blogs based on my experience! Hope you’d like it!

1. Create the best content you can with the best products you can possibly offer.Content is the essence of your website.It is your best advertisement - if visitors love your content, then they will go back and spread the word to others.You’ll see how effective to draw visitors to your website or blog if you better your content continually!

2. Submit articles. Article marketing is perhaps the most popular and effective method of generating more traffic to your site without paying for ads. Essentially it consists of writing quality, keywords specific articles that pertain to the subject of your website, and submitting them to free article directories on the web. Each article also includes an author's bio with a clickable link to your website, blog, or product.

If you want to generate more traffic your site without paying for ads, article marketing is the quickest and most effective method. While some expert Internet marketers right up to 20 articles per day for their site, you can generate more traffic to your site with one or two articles written and submitted per day. The key is to focus on keywords interested people would search for.

3. Rank well in the search engines (organic search results, not the pay per click). SEs can be a big source of traffic. The key is to create the best content in your niche. If you have good content, other websites will gladly link to you and offer your site as a resource to their audience. Check the on-page factors and be sure to get linked from authority sites in your topic area.There are so many methods in this area that my suggestion is you’d better read more articles focusing on SEO.

4. Send out press releases. There are free press release submission places on the Web. Press releases allow you to (a) attract media attention; (b) get more back links to your website without sending each website an email request; and (c) get more visibility especially if your press release gets in Google News or Yahoo News. You can send your press release via our Press Release Submission Form

5.Never give up Social Community sites. More and more users are flocking to social community sites, interacting in question and answer sites, and sharing their bookmarks online. Some strategies to consider include:

  • Create a profile in MySpace or Facebook and make friends with people with similar interests, which are basically your target audience
  • Establish yourself as an authority in Q&A sites such as Yahoo Answers, and include a link to your website in your profile, or if the question is relevant, include links pointing to specific sections of your site
  • Share your website in social bookmarking sites such as Digg.com or Stumbleupon.com. A homepage inclusion of your link at Digg.com can result in tremendous traffic to your site

6. Improve your conversion. Getting visitors is one thing; getting them to buy your products is a whole different story. It’s criticallly important to improve your sales! But there are so many ways to get that.You could find lots of articles focusing on this topic!

7. Free Link Propogation When it comes down to it, the only real method of generating more traffic to your site is to link propogation. Getting a clickable link to your website in as many quality places on the Internet as possible will increase your traffic. It is not necessary to pay for these links. Wild trading links with other web site owners has fallen out of favor in recent years, it is still possible to negotiate free links on other websites or blogs.

8. Syndicate your content A fast and easy way to accomplish all of these goals is by using content syndication. Content syndication is the simple process of making a block of content (which usually changes on a regular basis) available for other webmasters to use on their websites.

9. Use free classifieds. There are many free places on the Internet to post to classified type ads for your site. Perhaps the most popular is USFreeAds, that there are others. Posting classified ads can generate more traffic to your site by getting visitors interested in the product or service you sell. Classified ads should be eye catching and also catch the interest of whoever reads them.Notitce: Post a link to your site for free where it is allowed (always read the Terms of Use). Examples are:

· US Free Ads http://www.usfreeads.com/

· Craigslist http://www.craigslist.com

· Google Base http://base.google.com

· Classifieds for Free http://www.classifiedsforfree.com/

· Text Link Exchange http://www.txtswap.com/

· Recycler.com http://www.recycler.com/

· Yahoo Classifieds http://classifieds.yahoo.com/

· Kijiji http://www.kijiji.com/

· Adpost http://www.addpost.com/

10. Make it easy for users to recommend your site. Viral marketing is very important -- and easy to tap on the Web. But give your users the tools. There are a number of available tools that can help you share your content with social bookmarking sites such as Digg or networking sites such as Facebook. You can even go as far as giving incentives to those who recommend the site to their friends. If only 10 people go to your site, but these 10 people invite 10 more - that's additional traffic that you get for FREE!

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