1. Generate Targeted Traffic from Online Discussion Forums.
Online discussion forums provide an excellent way to promote
your website without paying any money. Nowadays, you don’t even
have to lurk around before you begin to post. Just browse the
messages and you can start posting. There are basically three
different ways to participate. You can ask questions, respond to
requests for help or just post any useful information that fits
with the general topic of that discussion forum. To promote your
site in online discussion forums, all you have to do is enter
your website address or ad in your signature line at the bottom
of each message. Every time you post or respond to questions
your ad will be displayed. If you post good content, people who
read your threads will also check out your website. This is an
excellent way to drive targeted traffic to your website at no
cost to you. You can take this type of site promotion a step
further by identifying the active members in each forum and
contacting them for joint venture arrangements.
2. Write Articles or Free reports for other webmasters to
publish.
Another effective way to promote your website is to write
articles or free reports for ezine publishers and webmasters to
use. If you write good content, your articles will be published
and many readers who like your article will go on to visit your
website. You can also write simple research based articles and
allow others to publish these freely on their websites. The
traffic from these free articles will come from your byline. The
‘byline’ is the short paragraph that goes at the bottom of each
article and describes who the author is and what they do. The
good thing about writing this type of content is that it
establishes you as the expert and therefore increases the
chances of people visiting your website and signing up for
whatever you’re offering.
3. Do Joint Ventures with List owners and Webmasters.
If done correctly, joint venture marketing is one of the most
effective ways to promote a product or service. A Joint venture
can take many forms but it’s generally an agreement for some
kind of partnership between one or more parties working together
to their mutual benefit. It allows you to leverage highly
targeted lists or traffic with no risk. Joint ventures are
excellent for new product or service announcements because they
allow you to reach a wide customer base very quickly.
4. Leverage the power of your email Signature.
One of the quickest and effective ways to start driving traffic
to your website at no extra cost is to add your ad or website
address to your email signature. This way, every time you send
an email, you’ll be advertising your website. You can take this
a step further by asking your friends and associates to put your
website address in their email signature. Most people don’t use
their email signature facility in their email program so you can
easily get 10 or more people to agree to do this. If you and
your 10 friends each send out 10 emails per day, that’s 110
exposures of your ad every day without any extra effort on your
part.
5. Exchange Links with Other Webmasters.
This is another effective strategy for generating targeted
traffic to your website for free. It involves contacting other
webmasters for a possible link exchange partnership. All you
have to do is locate websites that are related to yours but that
are not in direct competition and contact the webmaster to swap
links. There are various free ebooks and articles available
online on this topic.
About the Author ---------------- © Copyright. Ben Chapi owns
Venister Home business and Affiliate Program Classifieds at
http://www.venister.org/. He is also webmaster for
http://www.best-debt-consolidation-loan.co.uk/ and
http://www.home-equity-loan.org.uk/
About the author:
About the Author ---------------- © Copyright. Ben Chapi owns
Venister Home business and Affiliate Program Classifieds at
http://www.venister.org/. He is also webmaster for
http://www.best-debt-consolidation-loan.co.uk/ and
http://www.home-equity-loan.org.uk/
