Many people overlook this great opportunity to promote their site. Most people have multiple email accounts. Of course one email account is devoted to the website you wish to promote, but what are the other email accounts devoted to? Is there an opportunity to promote your site to a new audience?
For example, having run a high volume eBay store with hundreds of emails per week from customers and prospects, I found this the perfect opportunity to add a brief plug for my website to my signature to help drive traffic to my site for free.
#2 Commenting On Forums
There is a grey area on what is allowed and what is not allowed on forum sites. As a rule, people do not like spammers, but if you can offer an answer to someone’s question then sign your name with your website, there is no rule against that. Just having your website on the forum makes people curious especially since you already gained credibility by answering their question.
#3 SEO Strategies
There is a whole lot more to SEO strategies than I can get into in this article, but learning about how to get your site ranked at the top of a search engine is incredibly powerful. Ranking high is free and you end up with more hits than Google Adwords! It can take some time to get your website ranked high in the search engines under keywords relating to your site so this would be a process to start now and it will pay off in a few months, it is well worth the effort though for the free advertising.
#4 Publishing Articles In Ezines
Another powerful way to drive traffic to your site is through articles that are related to your website, that are informational, and that plug your website or product. Many of these articles can be published for free if they are approved by the editors of the ezine. It is well worth putting the word out there about your site through articles.
#5 MySpace
Again, this is another one of those grey areas. You can easily be shut down off myspace if people complain that you are a spammer. What you need to do is build a list of friends and gain credibility by sending out messages that are funny or interesting. Then throw in a few promoting your site. If people start complaining, reevaluate how you are wording your messages. Another note is that people on myspace get easily annoyed by people who are posting all the time so be sure to only post a few times per month at the maximum.
#6 Opt-In Email List
This is by far the best form of free advertising out there. These people have chosen to hear from you, but you need to make sure you do not take advantage of their time. Do not email them everyday! Do not email them every week unless you are extremely interesting and not trying to sell them with every line in the message. Every other week to once a month is a good rule to follow.
Give out some good valuable information without constantly plugging your product. If people feel they are not benefiting from your emails, the will discontinue their membership or simple start deleting them without even opening the emails. If you gain credibility with your email list, then you will get to the point that when you do plug a product they will know it is worthwhile and you will see the sales pour in.
Free Link Directory is a very useful and versatile tool in an advanced web marketing campaign strategy. Every serious webmaster should use it as a cornerstone of his traffic increasing and search engine positioning efforts. Other SEO techniques have their merits but submitting to Free Link Directories offers some unique advantages.
1. They are free! These days it ain't easy to get something for nothing. Someone is offering to list your website for free, if you only spend some time and confirm to the directory rules. Usually you will get listed in a reasonable time frame.
2. You are increasing your backlinks and this is very good for your website promotion.
3. Your Google page rank will improve. Today this is one of the most important parameters of website quality. Higher page ranking leads to higher income!
4. You will get traffic from people surfing through the link directory. Quality free directories are spam free so you will get some targeted traffic from them.
5. Free Link Directories are often crawled by search engine spiders ? this means that your website will be much better indexed by various search engines. Google is great but never put all your eggs in one basket.
How to get the most out of the Free Directories? First of all be careful enough and read the submission guidelines, there you will find how and where to submit your website. One of the most often made mistakes is submitting to wrong category. This is the fastest way to get your submission deleted. Choose the category you think is most appropriate for your website. Never submit to the top category, this is the second most spread mistake submitters are making. Be aware of this and you will be rewarded, ignore it and you will waste your time and time of the link directory administrator.
A good idea is to change your description often. If you use one description for more directory submissions you can get penalized for duplicate content and this can have an negative effect.
Always search for higher quality free link directories. While this seems complicated there are some clues which can tell you if the directory is of higher quality or not. For example the web design can tell you how much attention is committed. Google page rank is another clue.
Please avoid spammy strategies like using various submission softwares. It is a waste of time and money. If you don't have time to do it yourself consider outsourcing. There are some quality Hand Submission services you could use. Most free directory owners have a backlog of submitted links and not enough time to do their thing in time, so you submission could wait approval for some time so if you want to speed things up and be sure that your link will get reviewed in time consider paying fee. Its usually a small amount and well worth spending.
So please use the opportunity and improve your website by submitting to Free Link Directories.
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