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10 of the Best FREE ways to Promote Your Website

Aug 31, 2008 Uncategorized

1. Yahoo! Answers. Browse over the site for unanswered questions related to your website or any topic you are knowledgeable about and have relevant links point back to your site. It’s a quick way to build back links and actually have targeted users viewing your site.

2. MySpace.com. Create a myspace account and start marketing to the users. Some quick tips for MySpace are:

a. Never spam
b. Join as many relevant groups as possible and participate within the groups.
c. Post interesting bulletins that provide useful information
d. Send friend requests to users within the groups you’ve joined.
e. Use graphics in your posts to catch the attention of the reader.
f. Use catchy titles, anything boring will be ignored.
g. For non-targeted friends, you can look into friend trains such as friendstorm.net
h. To automate friend adding, comment posting and bulletin posting you can check friendbot.com and madderadder.com

3. Yahoo Groups. Join a Yahoo! Group related to your interest or website. You can then promote your website to your co-members.

4. StumbleUpon. The golden rule, “Do unto others what you want to others to do unto you” applies on this social bookmarking site. You can ask your friends or other bloggers and website owners to stumble your pages so you can likewise do it to theirs. Some members of webmasters forums are exchanging stumbles with their co-members. Perhaps you can join them.

5. Social bookmarking sites. You can also submit your post to other
social bookmarking site like Del.icio.us, Furl, Simpy, and other high PR similar sites.

6. Squido.com. Create a lens in Squido.com and start promoting your site through it.

7. Site maps. Always have a site map for all your sites, and ensure the site map is submitted to Google. You can create a free site map using the following site: http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/. Once your site map is created, then upload it to your site, then submit it to Google using the link below: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/siteoverview?hl=en

8. Submit To Directories. Most people already do this, but just in case you haven’t, you should submit to directories. You can find a list of directories at StrongestLinks.com. By submitting to these directories you can acquire back links and more traffic to your site.

9. Tell a Friend. You can install a tell a friend script to your site that will allow users to “refer” your site to their friends and colleagues. The downside to this is that some spammers try to manipulate tell a friend scripts. Be sure the one you use actually has “image verification” to limit form manipulation; otherwise you may find spammers trying to use your form to send spam. The technique to attract users to use your tell-a-friend box is to create good content.

10. Article Promotion. Promote your website through article marketing. Submit articles to well-ranked sites like Article City, E-zine Articles, Go Articles, etc.

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