One major stumbling block of e-preneurs is how to get their websites known to the millions of netizens around the world. Advertising is an option of course but it is only viable IF you have the funds to support an internet advertising campaign. But what do you do if you are not financially prepared to spend big bucks and still want to be able to compete in the global internet market?
Can you avail of free website promotion? Of course, you can. Here are simple steps you can do to market your website even if you do not have big bucks!
1. Enlist Your Website
- The very first step you should do is find out the most important and high ranking Internet directories and enlist your site . This is the simplest and most effective way to promote your website online. The only thing you have to do is to make sure that your website gets accepted – make your homepage user-friendly, make sure navigational links are easy, for a higher chance of acceptance in the directory of your choice.
2. Know Your Forums
- Join related forums to the product, service you sell on your website. This is one very affordable way to promote your internet business (it’s free). By joining applicable forums, you can post responses, create threads etcetera making sure that you sign your posts with the URL of your website in order to attract members of the forums to your website.
3. Write a Press Release
- Press releases are not solely for the print media. There are online press release outfits dedicated to accepting and publishing internet-related press releases. Write your own press release according to their guidelines, submit it to them and presto! News about your websites would reach millions of internet e-zines subscribers, even hard-copy newspapers and other media outfits and lo and behold – traffic would start coming to your website!
4. Be Friendly Online
- be as friendly as you can be with other webmasters, especially those who are in a complimentary business you are in. You need them to be able to establish reciprocal links and exchanges for free!
5. Write an Article
- One easily overlooked tactic is writing and publishing related articles. If you can write your own article, go ahead and publish it on the site making sure to append your name, website link and other necessary information on the final paragraph in order to drive traffic to your website.
6. Just Let the Whole World Know About your Site.
- Make sure that your business card, e-mail template, business letterhead and other communications to other people contain a link to your website, its URL and service you offer!
7. Make a Banner Ad
- On one site of your landing page (home page), either on the left, right or bottom – dedicate an area for publishing links and banner ads; make sure you have your own banner ads so that the owners of the banner ads published on your site will also publish your banner on theirs!
8. Take Up a Free Website Promotion Course Online
- There are these types of free website promotion courses, one of which is signing up for newsletters.
Take note that creating a website does not necessarily entail a lot of cash in order to make it known to others, you simply have to be creative and hook up with all the free website promotion programs out there in the world wide web!
