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How To Get Your Website Promoted For Free

October 30th, 2008 by Adam

There are many ways that you can leverage the internet, including several free resources to get traffic to your website. If you don’t have a website yet, you’ll need one for some of these processes to work most effectively, but there are still options included in this article for those of you without a website yet.

You can submit articles to hundreds if not thousands of article directories that will help you promote your business. These articles will also help brand you as an expert in your field. Articles can be used to help you get search engine rankings as well.

Google has local listings as well that you can submit your business information to. The options to submit your site will include rankings for regionally specific keywords such as “Salt Lake City plumber” which will include your listing along with other plumbers in that same area. You may be surprised to find that if you’re listed as a local business elsewhere, your information may already be included. If not, you can always add it and also customize it to include a link to your website as well.

Another service similar to the local listings is Google base which is Google’s way of creating listings of events, products, photos, and just about anything else that people submit. This is a great way to get your products to show up in Google’s search listings. It doesn’t cost anything to list in Google Base and also has options for uploading spreadsheets.

You can use Craigslist.org as well to list items for sale, events, such as a sale that your business is having or even products, or things like a coupon code that you can use to get other people to your business or website to buy your product. In my experience, coupon codes work very well on classified ad sites.

If you’ve heard of Facebook or MySpace, then you’ve heard of social networking websites. As much as most of these sites are meant to keep people in touch and connected, these can also be leveraged as means of networking with other business owners or customers that may also be able to get value from your products and services.

Part of social networking is blogging and one of the central ideas around blogging is to initiate a “conversation” which is why blogs have commenting options. Individuals can comment on blogs and usually with a link back to their own website. Finding blogs related to the topics where your business can be promoted is as easy as searching for them on the search engines. In fact, Google has their own blog search engine at blogsearch.google.com

There are several things you can do to get traffic to your website and if you’re wiling to spend the time, you can get a lot of traffic for free. These are only a few of the methods that I use.

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