Hi again,
It’s time to take a concise look at website promotion on a shoestring - in fact we are going to look at some ways to promote your website for nothing. All it will cost you is some time and a little effort on your part.
So without further ado, here are four of the most effective (and free!) methods of website promotion geared to driving targeted traffic to your website.
1. Forums and Message Boards
2. Newsletters
3. Blog and Ping
4. Article Writing and Submission
Let’s take a brief look at each in turn:
Forums and message boards are probably the best source of targeted traffic that you can attract to your website. It can be time consuming, but is very worth it in the long run. You have to be patient and work at it slowly and surely to make it work for you. It’s no good going at forums like a bull in a china shop and spamming your affiliate links all over the place. All that will get you is shunned by the serious Internet Marketing community and likely banned from all the forums. Take a professional approach and do it right. Join a few forums to start with and post a “hello…” note to start with. Read some of the discussions and learn who the senior members are and who the most active members are. These are the ones you need to get on your side. You do that by being patient, polite and gradually showing you own knowledge by answering a few posts with valuable info (not irritating one-liners, like “yes that is so true” of “Yes, I agree”), then asking one or two pertinent questions and generally getting involved in the forums. Never post links to your site or affiliate links in your posts - put those links in your signature and follow the rules of the forums that you are a member of. You will eventually be accepted as part of the community and the members will naturally click your signature links out of curiosity to see what your business is. They may even become customers, so it is sooooo worth it to develop a good relationship with the various forums.
Newsletters are a great way to promote the products that your website is offering as well as offer the readers your insight and knowledge by including some good relevant articles.
Blog and ping has already been covered here in a previous post. Suffice it to say, if you have your own hosted website, then attach a blog to it and update it regularly. The search engines like to see new, original content on your site, and a blog that is part of your site counts towards that additional content. Ping the blog every time you update it and that will generate a steadily growing stream of visitors who are curious about what you have to say about your website.
Finally, writing articles that are relevant to the theme of your website and submitting them to some of the better article submission sites like ezine articles will generate more targeted traffic to your website. Curious readers looking for information will find your article and, if it is well written and interesting, will see your link in the author bio and click it to your site.
So there are four great, free methods of promoting and driving targeted traffic to your website. All they will cost you is some of your time, as in the case of forums but that time is enjoyably spent in meeting like minded people and learning from them as well as contributing your own knowledge to help others while attracting visitors to your website in the process.
This post is expanded upon in greater detail in my latest article on the articles page entitled Generate Website Traffic For Free!. Follow the link and check it out.
That’s all for today, thanks for looking in and check back again soon for my next instalment.
Terry Didcott
THE HONEST WAY
