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Free Website Promotion Methods Still Exist
by Nathan Anderson
http://www.searchspot.com/
Back before the dot-com crash, it used to be easy to
find free methods for advertising your website. Many
companies offered promotion opportunities at no cost in
order to gain market share, popularity, or name
recognition.
Things have changed.
The larger sites that "gave away the farm", so to speak,
ended up not surviving when things got tough. The vast
majority of major sources of free promotion dried up in
mid 2000.
Since then, advertisements for free traffic are
everywhere. The problem is, you'll find that the vast
majority of these programs are a waste of time. Many of
these free sources require you to spend your precious
time surfing other people's sites, or promoting a matrix
or MLM program.
The one exception I've found to this rule is a traffic
exchange called Traffic Roundup. You can find it at
http://www.trafficroundup.biz/ If you don't have the
time to "surf" for credits, you can buy traffic and
banner impressions really cheaply. I recommend the "PRO"
level of membership at a measly $5 per month.
There are STILL good methods of promoting your site on
the web for free, though. One such method, if you have
the time to set up these accounts, is to get free signup
bonus accounts from small Pay-Per-Click (PPC) search
engines.
These small PPC search engines don't have enough bidders
to cover all the keywords available; so they are
desperate for bidders!
They'll usually give you a $5, $10... or even
$25 and $50 free balances in your account when you sign
up.
You won't see a lot of traffic from these little guys,
but if you sign up for a TON of them, they can be a
substantial source of traffic for your site!
The best list I know of for these PPC search engines is
in the ODP. The URL for the category is ridiculously
long... so just search for "Pre-Funded PPC Accounts" at
http://www.dmoz.org/
You can find more of these small PPC search engines by
searching at the other various search engines with the
same search phrase.
As an owner of a small PPC search engine and Web
Directory, I can also "chip in" to your efforts with a
$10 free account at my search engine - SearchSpot.com.
Here's the link:
http://www.searchspot.com/cgi-bin/bidsearch/signup.cgi?free=1
Speaking of Web Directories, they can also be a nice
source of free traffic for your site. Many Web
Directories offer free inclusion of your site in their
Directories, though you may have to wait a while to be
included.
A few of the better ones are:
http://www.dmoz.org/
http://www.GoGuides.org/
http://www.Skaffe.com/
http://www.WebSavvy.cc/
http://www.Gimpsy.com/
http://www.JoeAnt.com/
Search Engine Optimization is another way to get free
traffic to your site from the free search engines on the
Web like Yahoo and Google.
I've outlined the basics of SEO on my site:
http://www.webmarketingguide.com/. The
basics are easy, and can result in some
serious traffic, depending on your site's subject area
and the competitiveness of the field.
So if you have some time to use these
resources, you should have a nice flow of free traffic
to your site in no time!
To Your OnLine Success!
-Nathan Anderson
Nathan Anderson is an Internet marketing consultant, SEO
expert and owner of
http://www.SearchSpot.com/. He is the author of
Search Engine Optimization Tactics and owner of the SEO
Club, which can be found at
http://www.SEOclub.com/
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