How to promote my site

The first step in your plan is to decide on what your goals for the first 3 months will be. Your second will be for the next 6 months and thirdly decide on goals for a year. Once these goals are decided upon you can then work on methods to market your site and achieve them. This will help you to stay focused and develop your business steadily. Without a plan you will find that you do not really know where to begin and may find that you do not begin at all!

There are several basic ways to promote your site:

• Advertising: You can advertise on related websites and complementary business sites. These will be small classified ads.  Be sure that the websites have a reasonable amount of traffic. Y try to test your ads before posting so that you can get ou can also put top sponsored ads in ezines. These can be quite effective if the ezine has a good responsive list and is targeted to your market.
• Build a list: The easiest way to do this is by publishing a newsletter. You can get many subscribers with your landing page and build up good business relationships with your subscribers. A newsletter is a big draw especially if it covers Internet marketing. Encourage subscribers to share the newsletter with others if they like it so that you can take advantage of viral marketing and bring more people to your website. Subscribers like to visit the website of a publication, to check out new information.
• Blogging: blogging is a great way to draw more targeted people to your website. Remember to keep focused on the topics your market likes to hear about. Also keep it short and interesting. Remember to link back to your website. You can use wordpress and blogger.com to post your blogs.
• Article distribution: article distribution is an easy cost effective way to promote your site. You just write some articles on related topics that your market will be interested in and post them to the article directories. You will get many people coming to your website through this promotion. Plus you can accumulate many valuable back links.
• Forums: This is a fun way to promote; you simply ask questions and give answers in forums and use your little sig file at the bottom of your posts. You will find that you get interested and targeted visitors from these forums.

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