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How to Promote Your Online Business for Free

| August 14, 2009

You can spend a good chunk of change promoting your online business or website but you can also take advantage of many of the free ways to enjoy site advertisement as well.

In fact, thousands of Internet marketers don’t spend a dime on advertising and they don’t have to because they’ve done such a good job of promoting their site without incurring any costs. The following paragraphs will discuss some of those ways.

Blogging has become a popular form of self and site promotion in the Internet age. If you don’t already have a blog, start one.

Keep it interesting, fresh, and up-to-date and offer something extra for anyone who will give you their email address. This opt-in tactic could offer free tips or a free sample; something other than what your blog offers and something that will provoke added interest in your site or product.

Write articles about your product. If you’re selling a well known name-brand product, for example, write factual reviews and publish these with a link to your site for those wanting more information or for those wanting to purchase the product.  There are several sites that publish product reviews so you shouldn’t have any trouble getting a relevant, concise review published.

Post in forums and include a link to your site or product if permitted. Don’t annoy others at the forum by selfishly self-promoting your site or product without really getting involved. Loyal forum members can sniff out this type of poster within seconds and you’ll no longer be welcome.

Instead, respond to posts for which you have something to offer, congratulate someone who is sharing a success story, or empathize with someone who is having a rough day. Your link will be right there under your post for the curious to click. In addition, as you get better known within the forums, more people will inevitably click on your link.

Trade links with others. Network with others with similar and different sites and offer to trade links. Be a little discriminating here though, as you don’t want to be affiliated with a site that may have unethical or unsavory business practices. Get to know the sites to which you make this proposal ahead of time to ensure your links will be placed on strictly reputable sites.

One of the best methods of free advertising available is to work diligently to have an optimized website that will consistently show up in the front pages of the search engines. This means paying attention not only to keyword usage, but many other components of your site as well, including interesting and factual content.

All of the methods mentioned above require constant attention. You can’t simply write an article or make a forum post and expect to have a traffic jam on your site. By committing yourself to promoting your business using a variety of methods, however, you can expect to generate much more traffic than if you simply slap a website together and wait for traffic to breeze in the front door.

Blogging Your Way to Big Traffic

| May 7, 2009

There was a time when people used a blog as a way to air out their thoughts, views, opinions and basically anything that they wanted to say. It didn’t even matter if other people read these blogs. As long as they could express themselves, it was enough.

Nowadays, blogs have taken a different turn. Rather, people use of blogs for different reasons. Now, instead of just using them as a venue of self-expression, them have become a venue of business and even popular on the web.

There are a lot of websites that offer free blog hosting. People maximize their use of these by signing up, posting interesting content, and at the same time, inserting subtle advertisements for their products.

Having a blog means one thing: in order for you to be successful, you need to be able to generate a constant stream of traffic to your blog. You need to have traffic; otherwise, you’ll be getting nowhere with respect to your goals. So how can you blog your way to big traffic? Here are a few tips:

• Post important, significant, and interesting entries

Many people think that when it comes to blogs, it doesn’t matter what they put in it. After all, it is their blog. This is true. But if you want to have a surefire way of generating traffic, you need to do more than that. What you need to do is create entries that are of high interest of the general public.

So how do you come up with interesting topics? How can you be sure that the topics you want to post are something that people want to read? With this, you can watch the news, check current events, keep an eye on the current trends such as in fashion, make use of your ears–and turn them into radio to check what people are talking about.

When you post topics that are interesting, it won’t take long before bots make their way into your blog. When they do, you can expect traffic to increase after you’ve been indexed.

• Use the tag and ping method

You may not know about this method, but tagging and pinging can be a great help in increasing web traffic to your blog. Take note that these two are not the same. Tags are used as bookmarks; they are used to classify the content in a blog. In a way, you can say that tags are also keywords and can serve as guides of users to your blog and its contents.

Now, pings are used to let search engines know that you have just updated your blog. There are a lot of sites that ping blogs for free. All you have to do is register your blog and then allow them to ping it. For the next pings of your blog site, you can either do them manually or embed the ping service into your site and automatically ping it with each update.

To optimize usage of these two, it is always good to tag your new post and ping your whole blog site for the update.

• Use popular and heavily used keywords

Another way to direct traffic into your site without any cost is through the use of keywords that people frequently search for in search engines. When you have such keywords in your blog, search engines are more likely to index your article and blog sooner.

To look for these heavily used keywords, you can make use of websites, such as Technorati, which allow you to check the current hottest, or most in demand and used, keywords on the web. Especially with Technorati, you can make use of their Keyword Watchlist service where you can keep track of the keywords searched in search engines.

Once you have the too-hot-to-handle keywords, you can make use of it in your blog posts. With the use of this technique, you are actually helping the search engines find your blog. Through the keywords, you are letting them find you on the web and hence, index you.

However, blogging is not the only way to generate traffic to your site. There are still numerous ways that you can approach your goal. To learn more about the different strategies for generating traffic, go to www.responsivetrafficsecrets.com to find out everything you’ll ever want to know about generating traffic.