Advertising your Website free Part 1

 

How To Advertise for Free

Promote your website or blog by writing articles

Article marketing is one of the most effective and easy ways to get free traffic to your blog or website from search engines without paying for advertising. There are many free blog platform sites you can start with like, blogger.com and wordpress.com. Once you start writing articles, you can add a link to your website or blog in your article exposing your link to anyone who reads it. If you sign up to write articles on top article sites like Squidoo, GoArticles or EzineArticles, your articles will automatically show up in search engines, some articles even get to #1 spot on google, which most pay hundreds, even thousands in advertising pay per click ads to acheive the #1 spot. Sites like Ezine Articles and Squidoo will even help bring more traffic to your articles.

 Post your website or blog to free Web Directories

You can find free web directories by doing searches for "free web directories". Keep in mind, two out of the three listed below require a business e-mail rather then your personal e-mail address such as yahoo, hotmail, or msn due to spam policies. The five largest free directories to submit to are www.dmoz.org, www.worldsiteindex.com, www.domaining.in, www.webworldindex.com, and www.searchsight.com.

 Post your website or blog in Social Networking sites or Blog Directory sites

This is another one of the most effective, free way to advertise. Most Social Networking websites have millions of users and viewers and with the recent popularity of social networking, this will continue to grow. Sites like Technorati, Del.ic.ious, Blinklist, Digg, Reddit, and Propellar are great social networking sites to start with as they are the most popular and show up on the first page of search engines like Google. You can register an account for free and as long as you follow their spam policy, you will get alot of free traffic by just booking marking your blog posts, blog, website or articles. The search engines automatically pick these sites up according to the tags and keywords you use in your bookmark. In google, do a search for "Top Blog Sites to Submit Your Blog To" and post your blog or blogs on those sites as well. If you do a search for "Top Social Networking Sites" they are easy to find on any major search engine.