FREE Ideas To Promote Your Website

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As a business owners we have to constantly promote our products and services to increase client base. A website is no different. Of course we all would like to spend as little as possible in promotion costs or better yet let’s see if we can do it for FREE.

In today’s blog I will list just 5 Free Ways to Promote Your Website. Of course there are many more, but lets start with these and periodically I will list others. In fact I may even put them all together in a PDF format to be downloaded for free by all of my blog readers.

1. Submit Your Website: This is the first step to get you indexed with search engines and on your way to moving up in the SERP (Search Engine Results Page). Initially when I first started learning about the web and websites, I was under the impression that I should visit 1000′s of Directories and search engines to get my site popular, which will mean a better ranking. Since then I have learned that is not the case. Submit to the most important Directories and Search Engines and the rest of them will pick up your information. Here is a link to get you started by submitting your site to approx 130 search engines/directories. Here are the most important Search Engines to submit your site . The one major directory which you should submit to is www.dmoz.org. Getting submitted to this directory takes a while (do not spam them) as each and every site submitted here gets checked out by an actual human. They are very selective. Let me put it another way, get into DMOZ and you have done well. On the other hand not getting in is not the end of the world either.
2. Build Links: Take your time and build associations with other sites and exchange links with them. Do it with sites that have content relevant to yours. Stay away from sites that have no relevancy to your site. Build links over a period of time, do not go out like the rest of the herd and get a thousand links in 1 month (it can get you banned from Search Engines). Build links to all your webpages not just your home page. LinkandBuild is a great site that promotes the above philosophy.
3. Use Coupon Sites: Most coupon sites allow you to submit a coupon promoting a product or service. You register and add your website info, create a valuable coupon for their visitors and you should start to see people visiting your site and hopefully using your services or purchasing products from you. This is a great way to promote an online store.
4. Article Writing: This is a great way to promote your specialization skills and your website. It will most certainly bring users to your site. In many cases a well written article will be copied and used by other sites with the credit and a link to your site. Of course you must hone your writing skills, have a good title, choose correct keywords and submit your articles to a few good sites like ezinearticles. Make sure that you have a link within your article that points back to a webpage on your site. Also include your link in the signature section.
5. Visit Forums and/or Blogs: Make it point to visit one or two forums and/or blogs and leave valuable comments; of course once again do not forget to leave behind a link in your signature. Do not just haphazardly visit any forum and make comments, then leave and never to be seen again. Search engines do not take favourably to users that randomly leave their signature behind in all sorts of forums and blogs all over the web because it becomes obvious that you are doing it to build links. So join a couple or so blogs/forums that you like and visit them periodically and leave genuine and meaningful comments, not ones just for the sake of..

So here you have only a snippet of many ways to promote your site for free. Trust me success will not come overnight, if it does then good for you but please come back and show me how, ok. Let’s build our sites, blogs, forums, online store a small step at a time. Do a little bit everyday and you will see the growth in your site. I am starting to see it happening with me. Slowly but surely.