So you’ve built a beautiful website but want to drive traffic to it. Without any web traffic it will join the 1000s of abandoned ones on the Net where the site owners gave up. Most beginners can’t invest much money to promote their website so they use free methods instead of paid advertising. Instead of providing 100s of methods I’ll just outline the most effective free methods beginners can use to promote a website.

Steps to promote your website

1. Create a marketing plan

Without a clear marketing plan you’ll probably give up. Write down your marketing strategies, how to do them and when will they be done. Create a schedule (e.g. write and publish an article three times a week) then stick to it until you begin to see results (e.g. increased traffic, subscribers, sales).

2. Optimize your website for the search engines

Search engines use keywords to find your web pages therefore include them throughout your website e.g. title and description meta tags, headings, subheadings, main content, navigation links, internal links, image descriptions (alt tag) and file names.

Research the keywords people use to find your website by entering your main keyword in the free keyword research tool… Wordtracker. It will provide a list of related keywords and display the number of searches per month for each one. Include one or two of these keywords in the content for every page you optimize.

3. Build incoming links

Search engines rank a website according to the quality and quantity of links pointing to it. Once you’ve optimized your website create a link building plan that builds links to your web pages.

Here is one very effective link building strategy:

3. Article marketing on steroids

Content is King on the Web so either learn how to write articles or get someone to write them for you. Add the content to your blog, website, article directories, social media properties (e.g. Twitter, Facebook) and/or repurpose it into podcasts (MP3 file), videos, short reports, eBooks, email courses and teleseminars. As a result you’ll generate lots of links, traffic and sales from your website.

Each article you write should target a keyword from the list you created from your research. Weave this keyword into your headline, paragraphs and resource box. Remember to link back to your website in the resource box at the end of each article. Submit the article to the top article directors (e.g. EzineArticles.com). Convert the article to a video then submit it to video sharing sites (e.g. YouTube).

The key to successful website promotion is consistency and perseverance.

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Herman Drost is the owner and author of http://www.DrostDesigns.com – Web Design, SEO, Article Marketing

Online Reputation Management is the new buzzword in E-Commerce and Online Promotion of an organization’s identity, business entity or an individual. Due to the independence offered by Internet and lack of a central regulation system, everyone is free to say anything about anyone. Sometimes due to business rivalry or some other professional or unprofessional reasons, people start badmouthing about a business entity or an individual. It leads to great problems, and loss of business or revenue for that particular organization or individual.

The case of bad online reputation is very much common with e-Commerce websites or online service providers, where they have to face problems of negative feedback (most of the time baseless), given by their competitors with anonymous identity or by their unsatisfied customers. There are several consumer complaint forums where one can express their views about a company or organization and the products and services being offered by them. They do not need any evidence of being a real customer at the time of posting feedback.

Search engines track this information and when users (potential customers) search about the products or services offered by organization for which negative feedback has been given, they come across negative feedback indexed by search engines. It results in loss of business for E-Commerce websites or online service providers, as most of their business is search engine driven and presence of negative feedback reduces their reliability and maligns their reputation in front of their potential customers.

Online Reputation Management is the service that helps such victims of negative feedback given on online consumer complaints forums. They help such business entities in overcoming their problems and provide them a neat and clean reputation. These services are of great help for such organizations or individuals looking for a instant growth in their professional growth that was stuck due to bad online reputation.

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This article can create millions of dollars profit for you if you can apply it. The tips you are going to come across can be used for blog, site or forum. When you get others to be consistently adding contents to your site, blog, or forum, your site /blog/forum takes a life of its own. This is the main reason why you should consider allowing others to generate contents for you. Besides, it saves you some money which you would have spend in buying software to add contents or hiring a ghost writer. It will also save you the time you would have spent writing the articles yourself.

Here are four ways you can get contents in your site, blog or forum without spending a dime or wasting your time for it.

(1). Borrowing Legally:

You can legally borrow contents by using articles from authors who have given you permission to do so, as long as you include their resource box at the end of the article. Again, you can compile free information from public domains and put them on your site or blog. But you have to be sure that what you are compiling is a public domain material. Never ever use a copyright protected material.

(2). Your visitors can create it for you:

Here, you are to set up a system that allows others to add a comment to your site or blog. The contents created through this means are not only free, but is also done automatically without you lifting a finger.

Again, when someone adds a comment, it takes a viral effect because the content creates more pages that are indexed by the search engines and this leads to more visitors, more contents, more visitors and it goes on like that.

(3). Discussion from forum posts:

Forums are where people visit to seek for advice and opinions. When you create a forum for people to interact and network, the posts they made are easily picked up by the search engines and your forum is indexed by these search engines and it brings more traffic for you.

(4). Blog Comments:

This is another powerful way of getting free contents. Allowing visitors to post comments on your blog not only gets easily indexed by the search engine, it also brings more visitors. When setting up your blog, make sure that you allow visitors to make comments.

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