5 Effective Ways to Promote Your Website For Free Online

TITLE: "5 Effective Ways to Promote Your Website For Free Online"

1. Generate Targeted Traffic from Online Discussion Forums.

Online discussion forums provide an excellent way to promote your
website without paying any money. Nowadays, you don’t even have
to lurk around before you begin to post. Just browse the messages
and you can start posting. There are basically three different ways
to participate. You can ask questions, respond to requests for help
or just post any useful information that fits with the general topic
of that discussion forum. To promote your site in online discussion
forums, all you have to do is enter your website address or ad in
your signature line at the bottom of each message. Every time you
post or respond to questions your ad will be displayed. If you post
good content, people who read your threads will also check out your
website. This is an excellent way to drive targeted traffic to your
website at no cost to you. You can take this type of site promotion
a step further by identifying the active members in each forum and
contacting them for joint venture arrangements.

2. Write Articles or Free reports for other webmasters to publish.

Another effective way to promote your website is to write articles
or free reports for ezine publishers and webmasters to use. If you
write good content, your articles will be published and many readers
who like your article will go on to visit your website. You can also
write simple research based articles and allow others to publish
these freely on their websites. The traffic from these free articles
will come from your byline. The ‘byline’ is the short paragraph that
goes at the bottom of each article and describes who the author is
and what they do. The good thing about writing this type of content
is that it establishes you as the expert and therefore increases the
chances of people visiting your website and signing up for whatever
you’re offering.

3. Do Joint Ventures with List owners and Webmasters.

If done correctly, joint venture marketing is one of the most effective
ways to promote a product or service. A Joint venture can take many
forms but it’s generally an agreement for some kind of partnership
between one or more parties working together to their mutual benefit.
It allows you to leverage highly targeted lists or traffic with no
risk. Joint ventures are excellent for new product or service
announcements because they allow you to reach a wide customer base
very quickly.

4. Leverage the power of your email Signature.

One of the quickest and effective ways to start driving traffic to
your website at no extra cost is to add your ad or website address
to your email signature. This way, every time you send an email,
you’ll be advertising your website. You can take this a step further
by asking your friends and associates to put your website address
in their email signature. Most people don’t use their email signature
facility in their email program so you can easily get 10 or more
people to agree to do this. If you and your 10 friends each send out
10 emails per day, that’s 110 exposures of your ad every day without
any extra effort on your part.

5. Exchange Links with Other Webmasters.

This is another effective strategy for generating targeted traffic
to your website for free. It involves contacting other webmasters
for a possible link exchange partnership. All you have to do is
locate websites that are related to yours but that are not in direct
competition and contact the webmaster to swap links. There are
various free ebooks and articles available online on this topic.

About the Author
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© Copyright. Ben Chapi owns Venister Home business and Affiliate
Program Classifieds at http://www.venister.org/. He is also
webmaster for http://www.best-debt-consolidation-loan.co.uk/
and http://www.home-equity-loan.org.uk/