Thursday, September 20, 2007

How to Promote Your Website and Generate Traffic Using Free Methods

You have created your website or have signed up as an affiliate and received a free website, now it is up to you to promote it and generate traffic to your business in order to make money.

Now you may be thinking that, in order to make money you are going to need money. Not true, for many of us, we just do not have the resources or money to generate traffic to our websites like some do.

Well, you don't have to spend a penny; really all you need to do is to have the proper mindset and a lot of eagerness. As well, the perseverance and drive to work hard and do your research to generate traffic to your site.

How sweet it is to generate traffic to your website without having to spend a single penny. Now, I am not about to beat around the bush here, and I will tell you honestly that it may take a bit more time. When you pay for your advertisements you are going to get results faster. But at least you will have a fighting chance with some of the free methods I am about to tell you.

Write good content on your website Once your site is discovered and if the content is good quality content, people will return to read more or tell friends about it. Search engines will index it more frequently because humans are visiting often due to your great quality content.

Search engine optimization is also extremely important, but I am no expert when it comes to this topic. About the best advice I can give you about search engine optimization is that you will need to have the right keywords in order to get higher rankings in the search engines. But I can assure you that you can get plenty of free information about it if you type those keywords into your browser.

Enlist your website into the hottest Internet directories that are free. It is an easy and effective website promotion tactic. Start with this and the rest of the good things will follow.

Just don't forget to spruce up your website so that you have a higher chance of getting accepted in your directory of choice.

Write articles You will want your articles to pique the attention of your target audience. Provide tips and guides of interest to them. The article must be related to what your website is about. That way, when they read your resource box, there will be a higher chance that they will click on your link so that they can get more information or buy your product.

Submit your article to article directories, many are free, and don't stop at writing just a few articles because you are not getting any results. Keep it up, become known as the expert that you are in your field, and people will begin to trust you.

Exchanging links with other sites. All that is required of you is to reach an agreement with another webmaster to trade links. Ok, so it's not all that simple, it takes time and persistence because some webmasters will not agree to link back to you, but it is possible and free.

As long as you link to the right sites, ones that are related to yours. You can attain a good ranking with the search engines.

Spend some time on online forums and online communities. You can locate forums that target your niche. You can answer and ask questions, wow them with your range of expertise about the subject. Build a good reputation for your company and build trust with the people in your expertise and knowledge.

Do not sell, but you can let them know about your site in your signature and attract instant visitors right away.

Each of these methods will generate more traffic to your website for free. It only takes a bit of effort and some additional man-hours. Educate yourself about the methods depicted here and you will soon generate traffic to your site without the usual costs that come with it.


About the Author

Connie McKenzie is a full-time work at home mom who devotes herself to doing the things she loves to do most. Once I discovered the power of affiliate marketing and promoting my website, I started making a lot of money online. Do want to do the same? Register for a FREE high quality Link Exchange Service at => http://mckenziewebmall.com