Website Promotion Tips (Step 8)

Marketing and advertising your new site can be frustrating. The best promotion for your web pages is continuous. 80% promotion and 20% new original content.

Even if your site is older, you will always be looking for more ways to increase your site's traffic.

Whether you are doing internet marketing or have a business offline and creating a new web presence, submitting to the search engines is only one promotional tool there is.

These tips and techniques are free.

Article Marketing

One of the best free ways for website marketing and promotion is to create original articles and submit to Article Directories:

• EzineArticles
• Articlesbase
• GoArticles

These are just a few to help increase your web traffic. If you submit an article to all three of these, make sure you don't submit the exact same one to each, change it at least 60% so you won't get dinged for duplicate content.

The engines regularly "crawl" article directories. This may help you cut down on the time consuming task with your promotion strategy.

Search Engines

Use the engines with free website submission to help promotion of your site.

Google - Add URL Link (Google includes: AOL, CompuServe, Netscape, MySpace

Yahoo! - Add URL Link (Yahoo! include: AltaVista and All the Web)

Bing - Add URL Link

Search Engine Optimization

Many of the search engines may not use the META data to "decide" what a web page is about, but they DO use the content within the page. That is why website optimization is very important.

Use these website SEO tips to help you learn how you can make each of your pages friendly for the engines. The tips will help you with on-page, but off-page as well.

Directory Promotion

Getting your site listed into different directories, not only help to advertise and marketing of your site, it can also help you create quality backlinks.

See what directory promotion is all about and how to find directories within your niche.

Local Site Promotion

If you created your new site for your offline business, one of best places to start is submitting to Google Places

Use Google Places to create a free listing. When potential customers search for local information, they will find your business: your address, hours of operation, coupons, and videos you uploaded to Google Places.

You can also do a search on any search engine for local business directories and get listed with them to help with advertising.

If you don't want to manual submit your URL or site map one by one, use submitexpress to submit your URL to 40+ search engines and directories.

Additional Resources

Free search engine optimization ebook

Use web site traffic statistics software to help find out how your visitors found you. This is great in helping to find out what your traffic is using as keywords to find your site.

Find many more ways to generate targeted website traffic