It's little bit like some personal experience when I joined online marketing, and these are also what I did at very begining. I hope it can make a little help for anyone get ready to enter this field. I took part in all the ways and they worked more or less for me. These five tips are mainly written for newbies who are just starting their online marketing businesses, so pls do not look down or complain about them. 1. Video Presentation: One of easiest ways to promote your website is to do a video of what you want to promote with the link your website link. Post your videos on YouTube, Google video or 5min. Try to make your first brief introduction, a how-to tutorial or a product review. The topic can be started with anything popular, funny or impressive. If you've never done it before, try those simple yet powerful screen recorders. Many of them allows you to edit video and add visual effects to your video. 2. Write an Article: Write articles about what you are promoting and post them on article directories. Pay attention to taking the advantage of author's resource box at the end of the article. It allows you to make a self-introduction and add reference information to the article. As your article content is positive and helpful, many reader would like to click the link in your resource box which can bring them to your site. Here is the list of Top 50 Article Directories By Traffic and PR. 3. Social Bookmarking: Besides article directories, you can submit your article to social bookmarking sites. The only thing you should do is to submit the URL of your article and wait for Google bot to collect the content. Prepare a huge list of social bookmarking submit sites, but you don't have to submit to all of them at one time. The better way is, sort your resource by groups and finish your submission in one week. In wiki here is also a list of Social Bookmarking Site. 4. Google Discussions: This is free and also drives highly targeted traffic to your website. You can join the Google group and find the certain target people which interest on your website or product. It's little bit like another form of forum which offers wider range of topics and discussions. Start your schedule and introduce your site / products to them. Yahoo answer is also a good place to answer (rather than discuss) qusetion. It's full of business opportunities but you need to think about more smart idea to go through it. 5. Twitter: Twitter is another great platform for online marketing. The key is how to make you a popular person and build as many followers as possible so that once you speak out, there will be large groups of people receiving your message and twittering to their friends, indicating a substantial traffic to your website. All above are the simple ways to get website traffic for free. You can choose some of them which are available to you or make attempts one by one on your online marketing business. Nevertheless, you should update your topics regularly and post new things for a long period in order to make an achieved result.
Thanks for the post. Google discussions seem the same as Yahoo Groups and Answers, right? I have practiced it some time before, but did not have good results.
one of the best free and targeting traffic method is forum posting.... it provides specific traffic to your website and it is very common now a days.....
Thanks for your reply and hope in all sincerity that it can help you. @pplomo It depends on what position you regard it. My friend posted threads asking about some requirements on Google group and people followed him, then he got his first order. Referring to Yahoo Group, I'd like to recommend MyBlogLog (another community service by Yahoo) rather than it. Yahoo Answer works for me, in particular, it brings order. So just try to help people to solve their problem but not promote your product, they will be quite willing to click the links you leave. @bluegill Yea, they're the basic that everyone should get familiar with. I'm sure you've done a big success by using other methods but pls remember that's where all of us start
Yes the fourth point google discussions is a good way to spread the word and get some traffic to your site. You can also use the new google buzz for that. Social bookmarking is also a proven and effective way of getting indexed and ranked quickly as the search engines hunt through social bookmark sites and from there land on your site.
You are absolutely correct in all of your points. I too have a youtube channel for videos, an ezine account for articles which generates a decent traffic. Then comes the social bookmarking process, this is a long term process which is realised now after doing it regularly for the last six months. 40-50% of my traffic is coming from google search which is the fruit of doing bookmarkings at the right time and right places Google group forum is something which I should be doing regularly now. Can you please send me a link or show me how to go there. Last is Twitter, it has not got me much traffic or sales, but I guess agin this must also be a long term process as you need to have more followers under your belt.