Free Website Promotion
Highly effective online marketing can be costly, but does it have to be. Not always, it is possible to create an online marketing campaign which is effective. Hard work is required create a successful marketing campaign but starting early is a must.
Free Website Submission
You
need to tell people that your site exists, and a little about what
people will find when they reach your website. Make sure your website
is complete, before submitting your site to any search engines or
directory websites. We also recommend that you create a sitemap here
and if required a robots txt more information about a robots.txt is
available here
Start
with the big search engines, they may take a little longer to index
your website, once you're added they are more likely to regularly visit
you.
Submit your site to Bing™ free here
Submit your site to Yahoo™ free here
Submit your site to Alexa™ free here
Others to consider
Submit your site to Cuil free here
Submit your site to DMOZ free here
Submit your site to GigaBlast free here
Submit your site to Squidoo free here
and if you need a comprehensive list of search engines with detailed descriptions of every search engine you can find it here.
If you do want to save time we recommend you manually submit to the top four search engines listed above and then use a search engine submission service.
A fantastic resource called SelfPromotion.com is also worth looking at, they have links to submission services for over 300 search engines and useful directories. Take a look here
Squidoo Lense Promotion
An interesting way to get listed, and more importantly
generate
traffic, A lense is a detailed page containing information on subject,
basically an overview page. You need to create an account with squidoo,
you can to that here,
then write about a subject you have knowledge about, which is relevant
to your website. You can even get information via poll’s using a
lense, here is an example of a squidoo
poll.
As
you can see it’s a great way to get engaged visitors to your site, and
you even know they are interested in the subject of your lense, which
should relate to the subject of your site.
Interesting info > engaged user > visits your site = more
sales
It’s
a interesting concept that works on the key principle that allows
squidoo to get free content in exchange for links and the opportunity
to gain more information from interested visitors.
Tell a Friend Services
Once you have a valuable visitor why not let them tell people about you, with tell a friend services they can literally broadcast your website to their messenger, email and social network contacts, and all you did was given them a button to press. With websites such as social twist launching free tell a friend services this allows the visitor to broadcast your url without ever leaving the website. Take a look at the free service provided by Social Twist here.
