Marketing Tips - Bring Traffic To your Web Site!
Marketing
your online business takes
skill, determination, creativity
and strategy. There are many
ways to market your website (for
free or little cost) without the
enormous cost of hiring
marketing firms. We offer you
several solutions below that are
geared to helping your business
achieve its marketing goals and
at the same time, save you
hundreds of dollars in marketing
cost.
Search
Engines - Submit! Submit!
Submit!
Submit your site to major search
engines! Most have "Free
Submissions"!
Yahoo,
Google,
Web Crawler,
Excite,
All The Web,
AltaVista,
Ask Jeeves
Invest
in a Submission Program
- By investing in your own
submission program (software),
it will literally save you
thousands of dollars, in
advertisements for your site and
search engine submission fees to
marketing company's. Most
Marketing company's will charge
a fee of around 50.00 a month or
more to submit your site to
about 200 or less, search engine
(using the same software that
can be purchased at most
computer stores).
To get high
ranking in the "Top" search
engines, they charge literally
thousands of dollars! Just
imagine, for a very small
investment (of around $69.00),
you have the control over which
engines you would like to
submit to, where you will rank
and have the ability to submit
your site to more then 750,000
engines world wide in less then
ten minutes of your time! Click
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Banner
Exchange - Banner
exchanges are an excellent way
of promoting your site and
driving traffic to your
website. You may pick and
choose who you would like to
exchange banners with, or join a
banner exchange program. There
are literally thousands of
banner exchange programs on the
net. You can find them by
typing in "banner exchange" in
your browser window. Banner
exchange programs are great for
increasing traffic to your site
as well as earning pay per
clicks. :)
Pay
Per Clicks -
Pay-Per-Click marketing
is a form of advertising that
allows you to purchase top
placement on the search engines
for specific keyword searches,
at a “per click” price. They
work similar to banner ad
exchanges. With the difference
of earning revenue. Should you
decide to join a "pay per
click", make sure you completely
check out their program and make
sure they are legitimate. There
are thousands upon thousands of
"pay per clicks" sites on the
web. You can find them in any
search engine, by typing in
keywords, "pay per clicks" or
"Affiliate Programs."
Yellow
Pages - List your
website in the Internet "Yellow
and White Pages" Some yellow
pages have, "free listing
signups". Go to keyword "yellow
pages" or type "yellow pages"
into your browser and choose
your yellow pages accordingly.
Apply
For Awards - Applying
for awards can definitely bring
traffic to your site. However,
don't just apply for any awards,
Example: Market-Me sites, which
will give awards to anyone by a
"right click and save graphic"
linking back to them, without
reading any criteria or
promoting any ethics. This adds
no credibility for your website.
The best award programs can
usually be found on Award Sites,
UWSAG, or Web Awards , which go
through a "strict" evaluation
process to add credibility to
their Award Programs/Sites.
Join A
Web Ring - Joining a
Web Ring is a pretty easy
process. Just contact the
RingMaster and ask to have your
site included in the ring. Once
you've been accepted, the
RingMaster will send you a line
of HTML code that links you to
the Web Ring. Place that code on
your Web page - usually at the
bottom - and you're a member.
The key is finding one that
works for you! The two largest
Web Ring hosts that we know
about, contain thousands of
Rings: Yahoo Web Rings, RingSurf
Affiliate Programs -
Joining affiliate programs, are
not only beneficial to your site
by brining traffic to your site,
but can also make you a little
bit of a income, depending on
which affiliate programs you
join. Be choosey and join ones
that you feel will benefit
yourself and your site. There
are thousands of affiliate
programs on the net you can join
by promoting their products and
services.
Using
Meta Tags - Inserting
"Meta Tags" in the head of your
HTML will allow search engines
to to recognize and pick up on
your submission, by using "Key
Words" in the Head of your HTML
Code. Most likely, if your site
does not have "keywords" in the
head of your html code, the
engines will not pick it up.
Submit Your Site, "Free Meta Tag
Generator" is a tool to help you
create a meta tag for your html.
It is important to remember that
All meta tags will be geared
towards the content of your
site.
We hope that our Marketing tips
have giving you some informative
ideas on how to bring traffic to
your website. We wish you all
the best with your website and
marketing goals!
Written
By Donna Snyder, CEO - American
Association of Webmasters
