Simple free ways of promoting your websites! by PrimeVector
1. You Don't Need Money For Everything
When you have just finished your brand new website i can imagine you would want
the whole world to visit it, and preferably keep on coming back for more. If
you have money to do some investing in advertisement in any way you have it
considerably easier in those first steps then the web master without that cold
hard cash backup. But don't fear if you are not in that money group yet, you
don't need money for everything. It can of course make life a bit easier, but
what isn't there isn't there and the site still needs to be made popular.
2. A Good First Step
A good first step to undertake would be visiting a big search engine and enter
a keyword you feel is extremely related to your website. Then write down the
first 10 websites you feel are very related to your content and that have a
list of partner links displayed on their website. If a website doesn't have
list with partner links you have no real chance of getting your link to be
displayed, so you can ignore them. So after you found some websites your next
step should be contacting the web masters of each one of those websites. Before
you contact a web master you make sure you have setup a link on your website
pointing to their website, then you contact them in a very friendly manner (not
too overly business like) and ask them if they would be interested in
displaying a text link or perhaps even a banner to your website. Because you
already have a link pointing to them they can see you are serious and perhaps
they will place your link too. You have a good chance of being accepted as long
as you stay friendly. If you repeat these steps and contact a lot more websites
your website will be know much better, and the best thing is that its free. Of
course it needs time, but you will definitely feel the impact in the number of
visitors. This is especially true if you have a very popular topic and are
offering useful content, they will be coming back for more and more.
3. Find Those Quality Directories
The next thing you should do is find free link-directories related to your
website and submit your site to be included. Just use a search engine and start
to search for link directories. Be very sure that you don't use all the FFA
(free for all) directories you find because a lot of them are just junk and
rather then being good for your site they will hurt it. Look out for the
quality directories amongst them, especially serving categories related to the
topics of your website. Submitting your website to those quality directories
will drive lots of traffic to your site, again all free and even reasonably
targeted. The traffic is targeted because if somebody was searching a category
in a link-directory, and found your site, it meant he/she was already searching
for topics related to your site and thus perhaps is an important customer for
your website in the future. Like i said be a bit careful with this step and
select only quality directories. Also resubmit your site from time to time if
you think you aren't included anymore.
4. Bring On That Signature
Another great free method that is guaranteed to work is register at a lot of
forums all over the Internet. Of course again make sure you only join forums
that are related to the content on your site as much as possible. When you find
a forum, you should join it and firstly post an introduction message describing
who you are, what you do and what kind of website you own. Every forum will
have a special part for introduction's and you will be amazed by the nice
reactions people will give you and how many of them will actually visit your
site immediately to know more about you. The next important and most useful
step is finding the that forum's control panel where you can set your
signature. A signature is a small piece of text usually about 2-5 lines, which
you can fill and which is attached to every post you make or have made in the
past. If you place a link to your site in this signature, it means that with
every post you make you make sure that:
1)People that read that thread will read your post and perhaps visit
your site.
2)Your link is added to that website and search engines notice it for
sure.
It is not at all weird to see loads of visitors coming in though all the forums
you register and actively post at. Even if you registered at a forum years ago,
go back and setup that signature, you can't miss out on all those links
pointing to your site. This type of promotion is fun because you can actively
join a community with a topic you love, discuss it, meet people and all the
time you are promoting your site, on the other hand it also takes time and
dedication. The best thing again its all free and thus if you are serious about
promoting your site but don't have the cash to back that up, this is a great
way to start generating some good traffic.
4. Write That Article
The next thing you might do, but this is not for everybody, is writing articles
and submit them to free article directories. This again requires time and some
skill, but is worth every minute of it. In every article you write you can
place links back to your site in the "about the author" part. If you are good
at writing articles, the web master that searches for free articles will add
your articles to their websites and thus you have more and more links pointing
directly to your website. Because you are not pointing a link back to their
site (like in the first step) it even means that the link is seen by search
engines as a even more important link.(A site wouldn't link to you for any
reason, you must be doing something good.) By submitting your articles to the
many directories out there you will increase the chance of getting more
targeted traffic a lot, and all for free again.
5. Setup RSS Feeds
One last thing i would like to notice is that you could have a look at ways to
create RSS feeds for your content. If you aren't a developer yourself i would
let this option go for now and return back when you have the money to let
somebody develop feeds for you. No need to break your head over just another
thing. RSS is a way to deliver you content from your website to the desktop of
a user. If a user downloads you feed he can enter it in his feed reading
application and every time you add new content to your site he/she will be
notified immediately on their desktop. On top of this you can also submit all
your RSS feeds to RSS feed directories, just like you would submit your site to
quality link directories.
6. Conclusion
Well i hope i could show you some free website promotion tricks in this
article, just remember its very important to give it all time. Don't expect
overnight delivery because you will be disappointed for sure. But if you do
give it time and you also take time to apply some of the described tricks over
and over again ( like posting in the forums) i can guarantee you will see an
increase in visitors which can mean an increase in profit.
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