5 Simple and Easy Ways to Advertise Online by Rachael Willis
Some people say that advertising is everything!
Regardless if you have a product, a service, a hobby website or just want to
share pictures of your wedding, you have to advertise somehow to get the
traffic to your site or blog.
But not all traffic is equal. There are services that can help you drive tons
and tons of traffic to your site and it won't do you any good at all because
it's not targeted traffic.
Take for example all of the many different 'surf for traffic' or 'traffic
clicking' programs that are out there. If you have a website that is about your
hobby, say model airplanes, then what good is this traffic really going to do
you? Who's using these services?
Webmasters and marketers that want traffic on their own site. So they most
likely won't spend any more time on your page than is required by the little
timer these services use and then they are gone again. Even if your site is
about these traffic services (this is about the only time you will see very
much benefit from using such a tool) you will still have to spend a ton of time
just surfing and clicking around to get a real benefit from these programs.
Once marketers realized this they switched gears. They started promoting all
the different programs to a lot of other marketers to get them in their
downlines, so they could get some traffic as a bonus. This became their new
focus. The problem is that everyone else did exactly the same thing, so not a
lot of people were surfing the internet anymore.
Bottom-line is this. You need targeted traffic. So here are some tips on how
you can generate exactly the traffic you need and bring the visitors you want
to your website without having to chase after them.
1. Content
What is your website about? Do you just have a page with a lot of links and not
much else?
If this is the case, think about adding some content to your website that will
be of value to any potential visitors. You could write articles or find
articles at one of the many directories that you can reprint on your site.
2. Talk about your experiences in your subject matter.
You don't have to put up some kind of resume (although that can work too), but
rather try writing about what you are doing, as it relates to your topic of
choice. Let's look at the model airplanes again briefly, you could talk or
write about the latest plane type you built, how the last time flying your
plane went, what challenges you run into or perhaps even post some pictures of
your plane or of you flying it.
3. Forums and bulletin boards.
You could add a forum or bulletin board to your website where your visitors can
interact with each other. There are a lot of free services available out there
that you can use to either remotely host a forum for you, or even software you
can install on your website's server. To find some of these, just head over to
your favorite search engine and you will definitely find plenty to choose from.
And while you are visiting the search engine, why not run a search for any
bulletin boards and forums that are already out there for your chosen topic?
You could visit those and interact with the visitors there and since many allow
you to post a signature or a profile, you could add a little line about your
own site with a link (just check the rules of the forum first so you don't
violate any of them).
4. Start a blog.
Blogs are very popular and search engines love them because they provide
constantly new and fresh content. Your blog would be a great place to talk
about what you are up to that day. So if you spent some time today buying new
parts for your plane you could write about where you found them, how much they
cost you, why you chose those parts, anything really goes.
The really great part about this is that you can point links from your blog
back to your website, so when the search engine stops by to grab and index your
latest content, it will also stop by your website and you will start seeing
very targeted traffic heading your way.
5. Write articles.
Writing articles isn't hard and can be a great source of fresh, new traffic to
your website. There are a lot of ezines on any topic out there and there are
also a lot of directories where you can share your article.
Basically, what you do is write an article and then add a small resource box
that links back to your website (just like a signature) and then let other
ezine publishers know that you are allowing them to print your article in their
ezine. And many publishers go to the article directories to find new content
for their newsletter and even their websites. And since there are websites and
ezine newsletters on any imaginable topic out there, you can't lose. Write an
article every couple of days and post it in the directories (even one a week or
every two weeks will start getting you traffic). Very soon you will find new
traffic coming from search engines, newsletters and websites.
Best of all, these 5 simple tips will bring targeted traffic, meaning the
visitors are coming to you because they are interested in what you wrote.
So there you have it, 5 easy and simple ways to advertise and drive traffic to
your website at absolutely no cost.
About the Author
Rachael Willis is the webmaster of http://www.infoproductscentral.com
and the publisher of "The Genuine Truth" newsletter. "The Genuine Truth"
newsletter is full of freebies,articles and reviews of the hottest products. If
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