Promoting your website is probably the best thing you can do to increase your traffic and eventually your profits.
Gone are the days when the only way to promote your site is through paid advertisements, today, with the creation of various traffic generating tools, you can market your website without shelling out your precious dimes.
Here are the 4 keys to site promotion: 1.
Blog about it.
You can put up your own blog (for free) and talk about your website.
Discuss the products or services you are offering and the benefits they can provide your potential clients.
You can also post useful articles on your blog to establish your expertise on your field, this is one of the most effective ways of getting your readers to trust you and eventually buy from you.
2.
Email marketing.
After you have built a strong, robust list, you can send email to your prospective clients about your website.
Give them a reason to click that URL by giving them freebies or discounts.
3.
Forum posting.
Research the net for forums that are frequented by your target market and join them.
Interact with the members by giving sound advices and comments.
Incorporate your website's URL on your profile and at the end of each post.
This will generate quality inbound links to your website.
You can also pitch your products whenever you feel that it will solve a member's pressing issue but stay away from hard selling because you might just get banned by forum administrators.
4.
Article marketing.
Write quality, useful, and timely articles and submit them to various ezine and article submission sites.
Do not forget to include a powerful resource box that contains your information and your website's URL.
For every submission, you earn one quality inbound link for your site making it more popular and easy to find.