10 Easy Ways to Promote Your Website

[dd204]

Promoting your website can be a daunting task: it feels like there are thousands of ways to do it, but all of them take a lot of time or money for no guaranteed return. To help solve this problem, I’ve compiled a list of ten easy ways to promote your website.

1. Advertise in the Media.
Now, you might have already ruled out advertising in newspapers and the like as too expensive, especially since the chances are your audience doesn’t live in any specific local area. That mostly rules out radio, too, and TV is even more likely to be out of your reach. What you might not have realised, though, is that you should stop looking at the general media and start looking at the specialist media for your area. For example, if you run a house-buying website, you could advertise it in specialist property magazines, and even on ‘lifestyle’ cable channels that show programmes about moving home.

2. Write Your Web Address on Things.
If your business has any physical objects, whether it’s a product, a carrier bag or just the front of your office, make sure to write your web address on there. Even if people don’t keep or remember the exact address, it at least lets them know that your website exists.

3. Give Out Leaflets.
There’s nothing wrong with a bit of old-fashioned paper promotion: leaflet as many areas as you can. The chances are that your website is targeted to a specific demographic rather than an area, but the post office will be surprisingly helpful when it comes to getting your leaflets where they need to go, if you ask them.

4. Go to Specialist Events.
If there’s some kind of trade fair for the industry your website is in, turn up to it and promote your website. While there might not be all that many people there, the ones who are there will be influential, and can get your site talked about.

5. Put it on Business Cards.
It should go without saying, but once you’ve gone to all that trouble to set up a website, don’t forget to put it on your business cards. After all, if you’re relying on them to get people to phone you, why not give them the option of reading more about you on your website?

6. Astroturf on Forums.
An often overlooked way of getting traffic to your website is to participate on forums related to the subject and put your web address in your signature. This gets you more traffic than you’d think, especially at very popular forums.

7. Create Controversy.
A great trick to promote your website is to use it to say controversial things: as the saying goes, any publicity is good publicity. This works best if you say something that you know will be provocative to a certain kind of person, getting it linked from all over the place. Bear in mind, though, that this strategy is better for advertising-driven websites than it is if you’re trying to build a reputation and make sales directly.

8. Keep a Good Blog.
While more and more businesses are starting blogs, few of them are doing it right. If you’re using your blog to publish product announcements in corporate-speak, it’s useless. You need to remember a simple mantra, ‘views not news’ – make sure your blog has something interesting to say.

9. Buy Search Engine Ads.
Many people seem to think it’s some kind of admission of defeat, but search engine advertising can work very well, especially with keywords that aren’t already cluttered with ads. If you do it right, you can get very targeted ads very cheap – indeed, ironically, the more targeted the ads, the cheaper they tend to be.

10. Start an Affiliate Program.
Finally, if you’re selling something, don’t forget that old standby of web marketing: the affiliate program. Offer visitors a cut of the profits if they can sell your products for you, and all of a sudden you’ve got a crack sales team raring to go. The only trouble with this plan is that everyone is doing it, so you’ll need to offer a high percentage of your profits to your affiliates to make the offer attractive to them.

Note: If you wanna read more about SEO, you can see this source : http://www.internetmarketingarea.info/search/label/SEO

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3. Give Out Leaflets.
There’s nothing wrong with a bit of old-fashioned paper promotion: leaflet as many areas as you can. The chances are that your website is targeted to a specific demographic rather than an area, but the post office will be surprisingly helpful when it comes to getting your leaflets where they need to go, if you ask them.

Hi dd204!

Thanks for this!

Will surely consider sending out leaflets and creating some viral buzz for my site!

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[dd204]

I guess, you miss out doing SEO to promote your site in Google and in other search engine.

Thank you for your comment, i agree with you, i just posting an easy ways to promote website here but in the end of my post i including a note, there is a link more about SEO

http://www.internetmarketingarea.info/search/label/SEO

you can read more SEO tricks there.

[dd204]

SEO is one of the best ways to promote your site, but it can also be costly.. So, I guess it depends on how much $$$ are are ready to put in..

it's true, friend..

[superhidkit]

thanks for sharing, i'm learning it now.

[amndalb]

This is where SEO plays a great role in optimizing your web site, thereby making it visible to the customers in internet market.

[AlbertB]

Social media and email marketing are also the best way to promote your websites. In email marketing you can do guest blogging and link exchange and for social media marketing you use Twitter and Facebook to recruit new customers.

[seoextent]

Thanks you very much such a nice tips ...i like your tips. i will follow it.

[jackyrog]

These all tips which you can share with us for promote your web site. For these the best way to promote the web site social book marking is one of the easy ways to promote the web site. In all these there are so many things which is really very great.

[DavidBones]

Good tips really but many of them need some good budget for promotion, why not just do SEO and promote your site for free? Also social bookmarking sites and networking sites really helpful in promotion.

[Offshoreally]

Hello, I'm a newbie here. I stumbled upon this discussion and found it very informative and useful for me. These site promotion techniques will be of lot of assistance to me. I will keep in touch to get more of such info. Thanks for sharing.

[Eola]

Keyword selection is important, to choose keywords must be present in more relevant to your websites and it present in more searches, less competition. there are lot of keyword research tools are present in web, Semrush is a best tool. it can help to select the right keywords.

[cecille20]

Great tips and guidelines! I'm also doing that process. But I'm more on focusing on using building links in different kind of process.

[probafix]

Social bookmarking, directory submission, blog comments, blog writing, article submission, forum posting, press release, social networking and the last one is patience.

[londonneed]

I think I want to start a business but do not know where to start. I have a website but no idea how to market. This forum helped me a lot. I think I may start now.