Market your Website without Hurting Your Budget
Sep 12th, 2009 | By featured author | Category: Featured articlesTop Ten Sure Fire Tips to Market your Website without Hurting Your Budget
If you are selling a product or a service and you want your website to be known globally, you should get into the field of internet marketing to skyrocket your sales. You do not really have to pay hundreds of dollars to self-proclaimed Internet gurus just to create a name for your site. There are inexpensive and simple ways on how you can create a massive online presence without burning a whole in your pocket.
1. Add your site to Google
Google is the number one search engine. It would be a great opportunity if you have your site indexed in Google. Doing so would allow your site to show in search engine results when visitors use the search engine to find information. Make it a goal to achieve a high pagerank so you can gain more web presence and more visitors to your site.
2. Create a mailing list
As they say, the money is on the list. Get as much email addresses as legally as you can. These would serve as your contact list where you can email your clients and possible costumers for any happenings or promotions about your site. Add a sign up or a newsletter opt-in option to your site to gather contacts.
3. Create a blog
A blog is a good marketing tool because you can talk freely about your product and service and communicate with your customers in a more personal level. Your blog can also serve as an information site where people can learn tips and advice and read good content. Your blog would serve as a support marketing tool for the main services and products that you offer.
4. Distribute press releases
If you have a new site launched or a promotions going on in your site, write a press release about it and distribute it on online press release portals. This would not only help you get more traffic but it would create an instant buzz about your site.
5. Article marketing
Distributing articles in article directories with links to your site would result to more traffic and more back links. But what it can really do is add reputation to your site. If you are distributing high quality articles, then visitors would regard your site as an established website that they can go to if they need quality information.
6. Social Media and Forum Marketing
Nowadays, who doesn’t have an account on MySpace and Facebook? You can tap into millions of people on this site if you create your own profile page on popular social media networking sites. As for forums, you can add your website and add a signature link to your profile. Post relevant posts on forums that would add credibility to the website that you represent.
7. Track your progress
Your internet marketing efforts would be fruitless if you cannot track its effectivity. Make sure that you evaluate your marketing efforts once or twice a month. Focus more and improve on the marketing tactics that give you the most sales.
