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6 Powerful Ways to Promote Your Website for FREE
By Anthony D. Smith | May 13, 2009
Are you tired of paying for web site traffic or just don’t want to start, but you like the idea of getting targeted visitors to your website who are likely to buy your products, services, and affiliate promotions?
Here’s six powerful ways to promote your website for free. Use them and watch as thousands of targeted visitors flood your web site with the high probability to buy into your web based offers. Let’s start with method number one…
#01: Free Articles
Promoting your website with free articles is easy. It’s one of my top three favorite ways to promote a website for free simply because you can turn your articles into multiple forms of content and gain more exposure for your website as a result.
You can turn your articles into audio files and upload them to PodCasting directories such as iTunes or turn them into multimedia and upload as videos to social media sites like YouTube.
Using your articles for more than submitting to article directories and announcement lists can generate tons of back links for your website as well as increase your search engine rankings, thus, promoting your website for free. Remember, it’s all about getting targeted traffic you don’t have to pay for.
#02: Social Media Sites
I LOVE social media. You can make a killing using social websites like YouTube, Google Video, Vidilife, and literally dozens of others. You can upload your video to these sites pretty easy using TubeMogul.com. It let’s you upload your videos to the top video sharing sites on the net in one shot automatically and for free.
Plus, if you create a really good video, you will increase your chances of it getting passed around and going viral as people put it on their websites, on their MySpace pages and even link to it on their Twitter accounts. You can post them on your blog too.
Your blog gets updated and attracts search engine spiders and potentially thousands of people are passing your new video around the web. Can you feel marketing power?
#03: Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking isn’t at the top of the traffic food chain, however, it is quick & easy and can generate a slew of potentially targeted visitors. I highly recommend using a social bookmarking tool such as SocialPoster.com or SocialMarker.com to automate this process as much as possible making your life easier.
You’ll not only get lots of traffic to your website but you’ll be getting even more back links. 80% of your website’s SEO factors are determined by how many back links your web site has.
More links equals better search engine rankings and more search engine rankings equals much more targeted traffic.
#04: Viral Marketing
If done right viral marketing can create a steady stream of visitors to your website for years to come. Create a free viral ebook or report for the purpose of letting people pass it around.
Distribute and promote your own viral e-books and reports by listing them on free ebook directories, give them to membership sites as special gifts to offer their members, etc. Let you affiliates brand the reports and offer it to their visitors and email lists. I suggest you allow them to pass it along with free branding rights as well. This way their visitors will be compelled to spread your marketing message around further and so will theirs, and so forth.
You have no idea how powerful this method is. Use it and experience true marketing power. It will have a strong promotional effect on your Internet business.
#05: Free Press Releases
Free press releases have the power to get you in the media BIG TIME. I’m not just talking social media, rather, I’m talking off line media and high trafficked media publications in your target market on the web.
Your website may get listed in magazines, trade journals, monthly print newsletters, and in digital versions of the latter distributed through publishers’ websites and newsletters.
Simply write your press release and start submitting it everywhere you can that will take it for free. You can find lots of free press release submission services online by doing a quick search on Google. They can bring you lots of traffic, expert interviews, journal coverage, and more just by following the simple process of writing and submitting your press releases online.
#06: Blog Comments
Blog s are hot and in high demand in every market. It only makes sense to capitalize on this incredible trend and more so capitalize on other people’s high traffic blogs.
Simply start posting comments on their blogs along with a link to your website as the poster. You can use your name as anchor text for the first few posts to build somewhat of a relationship with the blog owner/publisher and their commenting community.
After a few posts start using your main keywords and key phrases as your anchor text in the blog comments you make as the poster in order to get the added benefit of back links with optimized anchor text for search engines pointing to your website. Only use blogs that have the DoFollow add-on for WordPress as well as blogs with high Alexa rankings. They offer the most link juice and capture the most targeted traffic which is what you’re after.
Now you can stop paying for targeted web traffic and begin to promote your website for free. These methods are proven to increase web traffic that is most likely to buy your products and services as well as affiliate promotions. If you use these methods you may never pay for targeted web traffic again.
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