Many people think that marketing and promoting a website takes a lot of time and money, were in reality yes it may take a while it may not cost any money at all. Ironic when I am a believer that ‘time is money, money is time’.
Anyways I was trying to make the point that these next ten top ways to promote a website are totally free. So let’s get on with it.
Search engine submissions
Stated much clearly on this page Submitting to Search Engines I shall only briefly touch on this. You can automatically enter your website to hundreds of great search engines just by entering your URL and a couple of other details. With software like web CEO life is made easier and Search engine optimization is also. You have much more control over the anchor text that is displayed with your website when searched for and more control over the search engines it is submitted to. This is a great, free and fast way of creating traffic for your website in the long term.
Forum Signatures
Secondly, such a basic however quite beneficial strategy is to put your websites URL as your signature on forums. Even if the forum is not related to your websites market, it does not matter it will create backlinks to your website and bring it to be more popular, especially with in the search engine positions.
Social Groups
Newsgroups, Yahoo groups Google groups and all those other web based discussion groups that are constantly popping up all over the internet are another great way of promoting your website. All you need to do is search for related discussion groups on your websites subject and submit comments and posts on the group’s website. This will get your website known and promote it to the target market. Also it may create more backlinks for your website once again improving search engine ranking.
Offline Marketing
Promoting your website offline is another great way of marketing your website, one that is commonly forgot about, due to the focus of online marketing methods. However telling your friends, family work colleagues, teachers, pupils anyone will allow your website to spread through the natural word of mouth marketing method.
Banner Exchanges
Banner exchanges are another great way of advertising your website. Basically for every two banners displayed on your website a banner is displayed on another website they are generally related to your website and can bring in some decent traffic.
Yahoo Answers
Yahoo answers, a very underrated yet great way of marketing your website, simply go on to yahoo answers in the advanced search bar, type in some related keywords from your website and find some related questions perhaps asking what is a decent website for such a thing. It works wonders if you consistently answer questions like this.
Link Exchanges
These are basically exchanging links with other websites, which are hopefully related to yours. This does not only promote your website but also helps the pagerank of your website. You can find link exchanges simply by looking on forums.
Email Signatures
Quite similar to the forums signatures however instead of adding them to your posts, add them to your emails. Every time you send a business related email just add a websites URL to the bottom of it with a small amount of anchor text tempting people to click on a website and giving them an idea of what a website is about.
Article Submissions
This is another great way of promoting and marketing a website by submitting a couple of articles per week or month on your websites topic you can create a large amount of traffic. With a good article it is impossible to put a figure on the amount of traffic you can create, by doing this frequently it will allow for a steady flow of traffic to a website, whilst creating links back to a website as well. There are some great article directories for example ezine articles and go articles.
Press release
Publishing a press release if you have some unique information or news about your website, or about current events all you need to do is submit it to a pr portal website with your link back to your site.
