What are some quick effective ways to...?

Question

What are some quick effective ways to advertise/promote a local business online?

Answer 1

Try Craig's List - online classified and its free.  You'll have to put together a few lines of what you want to say/explain about your product or service.  There's the ability to add up to 4-6 images and I think the ad will last for about 30-45 days.  although , you are limited to 1 ad per item/service.  If you would like to copy and place the same information in multiple locations or subject headings an additional email address or 2 may be needed.

Answer 2

These are my time-proven methods to ADVERTISE my website for FREE

1)Viral Pictures

Viral is closely connected with something that may spread easily.So i suggest you to create a viral picture which is closely connected with your products and spread it.

Everyone likes funny pictures and they don't mind sharing it with others.It's viral.So, If you're selling a health product, then you may create a funny picture about it and put your website's name on it.

Next, just forward it to as many contacts as possible using e-mails. Whether it's a 12 years old kid or 21 years old adult.They would just love and share it with others. Can you see how easy it is?

2)Viral Videos

Videos are the most famous entertainment on the Internet.People would just love it dues to it's effectivenes in spreading the message. So i suggest you to create viral videos about your product and again put your link in it.

If you got 3 minutes video, then make sure your website's link is visible throughout the whole 3 minutes.If you don't have the necessary tools to create a video, then you can simply collect 5-10 viral pictures and then convert it into video using Windows Movie Maker.

Then just upload it to You Tube or Google Videos. Now using bluetooth everyone is exchanging videos from their mobiles or computers. If your video is viral enough to attract others, it will easily spread to others.

Suggested Links:

http://youtube.com/

http://video.google.com/?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&...

http://video.yahoo.com/

3)Yahoo Answers

I probably won't be answering your question if i don't know the answer. And i won't suggest you any websites link if i think that it's not going to help you.

So simply answer any questions that you're knowledgeable(your niche market) at and put a link to your websites as extra source for others.

If your answer is good and solved the questions, people would also expect for more tips and suggestion from you.If you suggested any website links, there are high chances for anyone to visit it.

4)Forum Marketing

Forum Marketing works just like Yahoo Answers. They would be a lot of tips and questions exchanged in any forums.

So start getting active and contribute to any forum members and they will appreciate your expertise and start visiting your websites for more up-to-date tips.

Suggested Links:

http://warriorforum.com/

http://www.ablakeforum.com/

5)Newsgroup Marketing

Promote your expertise and links in newsgroups by contributing your tips to other members.

Suggested Links:

http://groups.yahoo.com/

http://groups.google.com.my/grphp?hl=en&...

6)Article Marketing

Write articles within your niche and submit it to article directories

Suggested Links:

http://ezinearticles.com/

http://goarticles.com

7)Social Networking

Use social networking sites to promote your products and links. As you know social networking sites are self promotoable. If you got a nice profile with beautiful pictures in it, i bet you'll get a lot of visits from other members.

Suggested Links:

http://friendster.com

http://facebook.com

http://myspace.com

These are my easy to apply and time proven ways to get traffic for my websites.

Other Web Traffic Generating Tips:

1)Free Press Release

2)PPC Ads(It'll cost you money)

3)Joint Ventures

4)Newspaper(It'll cost you money)

5)Sms(It'll cost you money)

6)Word Of Mouth

7)Pamplets/Flyers(It'll cost you money)

8)Business Cards(It'll cost you money)

Answer 3

Usually the Yellow Pages let you place a free ad online for your business.

Also Backpage.com and Craigslist.com have great response numbers, and they are both free.

You could make a blog for you business. You can give it it's own profile page on myspace and make friends with as many locals on there as you can by doing a browse or a search.

Answer 4

If you are looking to advertise your small business, Lookcube is a great choice.

Lookcube is a free local classifieds website. Ads on Lookcube stay for 30 days and automatically renew, which is a real timesaver for small business owners. Craigslist ads expire after 7 days, so reposting can become a real chore.

http://lookcube.com

Answer 5

Ask other businesses that have gone this route!  If they are not competitors, they will be happy to share their successes.  Tie into a marketing campaign that exists and would attract more business.  Find something charitable that you can pony up a prize or something and get credit for that.

Answer 6

Google AdWords (Yahoo is gona ban me for this... lol)

Answer 7

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!