I have started website marketing and don't know how to advertise my website. i can't afford to pay for this

Question

I have started website marketing and don't know how to advertise my website. i can't afford to pay for this

Answer 1

No problem, loads of free and low cost advertising resources at my Squidoo Lens:

http://www.squidoo.com/advertising_marke...

Do you Squidoo? You should.

Answer 2

see about having links put on other peoples websites, and in return you can put their link on your website instead of exchanging money.

Answer 3

Here are some FREE sites to advertise your website on!

http://livehotads.com

http://darbyincorporated.com/AdKing12

http://businessadsboard.com/?ref=styles

http://oboads.com/?uid=styles

http://businessads.com-z.us/?ref=styles

http://yourturbotraffic.com

They are all FREE and will generate a lot of traffic to your site

Answer 4

Hi-Ifound This One Very Helpful at:

http://www.mythreebillionsads.com..

Answer 5

This site is free for 31 days and will help in your links

Answer 6

Can do your site optimization at a nominal rate. Will do bring your site up in search engines and can drive traffic by many SEO strategies. $50/mnt

Answer 7

Onefreelink.com is a new web directory that allows you to submit one free link onto it's site. The best thing about onefreelink.com is that once a month they send out a newsletter with links in every category. Every person that has a link listed on onefreelink.com receives this newsletter! This enables user's of this site to connect with other links in their niche in order to exchange links without having to go through the tediousness of link exchanges.

The best part is that this site is fairly new and the categories are still a little bare. Most categories only have one or two links in them at the moment. This is great because you can get first, second, or third placement in your category.

Go to this site now and click on "Submit My Link" for more information.

Answer 8

A lot of Internet marketing you can do yourself at a very low cost.

There's a good guide to increase your traffic here: http://traffic-tips-and-tricks.blogspot.... The tips described there are quite simple but very effective.

And if you're willing to invest some time into it you should also consider reading the book "Guerrilla Marketing" by Jay Conrad Levinson, it tells you a lot of practical and effective ways to market your business for very little or no money at all.

Hope this is useful.

Answer 9

Have a look at http://www.ds32.com

I am sure there are tons of similar sites, but, hey, I'm only gonna mention mine!

Answer 10

The less you pay, the more work it's going to cost you.

The way to go is for free traffic methods. Try to get yourself involved with the online community for your market. Go to forums, blogs or even yahoo answers and become an authority in it.

Other free traffic tips:

http://www.profitlancebonus.com/free-tra...

Answer 11

Getting traffic is a combination of a lot of things. The key to success is to create great content that visitors want to use, search engines will love and other websites will naturally link to. Of course, it's easier said than done.

You can use pay per click advertising in the search engines to reach audiences looking for your products. You can use Google Adwords http://www.google.com/adwords or Yahoo http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com

Here are some shoestring marketing ideas that can help you get the visitors you need at the least cost possible:

1. Create the best content you can with the best products you can possibly offer. Your content is your best advertisement - if visitors love your content, then they will go back and spread the word to others.

2. Make it easy for users to recommend your site. Viral marketing is very important -- and easy to tap on the Web. But give your users the tools. Get a Recommend this Site script from websites such as cgiscripts.com and similar directories of scripts. Some even go as far as giving incentives to those who recommend the site to their friends. If only 10 people go to your site, but these 10 people invite 10 more - that's additional traffic that you get for FREE!

Recommend Site Scripts (various) http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_Sc...

Big Nose Bird Recommend this Site http://bignosebird.com/carchive/birdcast...

CGI Resource Index http://cgi.resourceindex.com/Programs_an...

Hostscripts http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_an...

3. Rank well in the search engines (organic search results, not the pay per click). SEs can be a big source of traffic. The key is to create the best content in your niche. If you have good content, other websites will gladly link to you and offer your site as a resource to their audience. Check the on-page factors and be sure to get linked from authority sites in your topic area.

If you are going to read only one piece on search engine optimization, I suggest you read Brett Tabke of WebmasterWorld.com's "Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone: 26 steps to 15k a day." http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/201...

4. Send out press releases. While outfits charge as much as $650 per release, there are free press release submission places on the Web. Press releases allow you to (a) attract media attention; (b) get more back links to your website without sending each website an email request; and (c) get more visibility especially if your press release gets in Google News or Yahoo News.

http://www.prleap.com/sign_up.html

http://i-newswire.com/

http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/

http://www.pressbox.co.uk/cgi-bin/links/...

http://www.pr.com/press-releases

http://www.prfree.com/

http://www.clickpress.com/releases/index...

http://www.theopenpress.com/

http://www.przoom.com/

http://www.prweb.com

http://www.newswiretoday.com/

http://www.free-press-release.com/

5. Submit articles. Write articles and submit them to websites accepting author submissions. You get exposure for your business; establishes you as an authority in your field, and allows you to get backlinks for your website. If 50 websites publish your article and it contains a link back to your website, then you easily get 50 links from a single article. The more links you have, the greater your chances for increasing your search engine rankings.

Here is a comprehensive list of where to submit your articles http://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=...

6.  Post a link to your site for free where it is allowed (always read the Terms of Use). Examples are:

Craigslist http://www.craigslist.com

Google Base http://base.google.com

Classifieds for Free http://www.classifiedsforfree.com/...

Text Link Exchange http://www.txtswap.com/

Recycler.com http://www.recycler.com/

Yahoo Classifieds http://classifieds.yahoo.com/

US Free Ads http://www.usfreeads.com/

Kijiji http://www.kijiji.com/

Local.com http://www.local.com/

Answer 12

There are many free ways to advertise.

Here are a few sites to help you:

www.addme.com

Craigslist.com

www.hits2u.com?/581064

gumtree.com

kijiji.com

www.t2000ultra.com/?rid=46975

bidvertiser.com- use the free $20 dollar offer

adpost.com

www.1on40.com/491310553

salesspider.com

jayde.com

freewebsubmission.com

backpage.com

Answer 13

Here's a freebie method of marketing one's website:

The most effective way to advertise on the Internet is

to first set up a website and publish its domain name

on major search directories such as Google.com,

Yahoo.com [at http://www.google.com/addurl/?...... and

MSN.com since 85% of Internet shoppers rely on these

search directories to provide them with goods and

services. In a sense, these search directories are a

very large Internet Yellow Pages.

Nevertheless, should your website or opening webpage

fail to contain "generic" keywords, then anyone using

such "generic" queries will not be able to discover

your website. Your domain name [URL] of your website,

in a sense, will be invisible, undiscoverable.

You may want to consider some simple algorithms which,

when observed and committed in designing of a website

with placement of various critical metatags that can

surely achieve a high search engine presence and

increase Internet traffic to your website. These

metatag strategies work well with published webpages

at Google and Yahoo.

Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based

website, make sure to fill-in the property entries

such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing

to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can

be readily indexed by search robots. Also consider the

Internet audience and their incoming setup. For

example, if they are on analog/dialup, Flash webpages

take too long to load up and therefore analog users

will likely lose interest and discontinue entering the

Flash site. On the other hand, anyone on hi-speed DSL

lines, will welcome Flash pages which load quickly. So

before designing a pure Flash websitge, ask the simple

question, "Who's my end user - is he on dialup or

DSL?" And if you had to choose between these two users

for maximum marketability, then select analog users

since 80% of most resident users are still analog

Internet subscribers and pure HTML designed webpages

is best for them.

A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text,

is far easier to be indexed by search robots. Limit

the use of stylized text saved as .gifs since as a

graphic, they are not indexable by search robots.

Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots

are unable to properly classify textual material.

Placement of Metatags:

A ranking or search order does take place with Google

and Yahoo and it begins with the "Title" metag which

should consist of no more than 65 characters separated

by commas. The "Title" should describe in generic

terms, the goods and services, followed by a location

from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state.

The placement of a domain name which is not generic

within the "Title" is not appropriate, unless your

domain name is a major recognizable brand name.

The second metatag is the "Description" which is

usually 25-30 words to form a complete sentence which

best describes one's goods and services.

And the very last category - "Keywords" are also

somewhat limited to 15-16 words which can be plural

and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries

which could be mistaken as "spamdexed entries" which

is defined as the loading, and submission of

repetitive words into a particular metatag category.

"Spamdexing" when discovered on a webpage and reported

to Google's spamreport.com can result in the

elimination of your website from their search

directory.

Here's an example of a very highly-placed website on

Google.com: Begin with the very "generic" search query

"sandwiches downtown los angeles," taking note to not

abbreviate Los Angeles to "LA" and of course, leave

out the parentheses ("). It will bring up some 2.4

million+ search results. Check out where "Nazos.net"

is ranked. It's ranked No. 1!

Again, Nazos.net's high web presence was achieved by

proper web design and placement of relevant metatags

according to Google's publication guidelines.

Good luck!