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What are some no-cost advertising methods for a website?

I've launched my business and my website, and am on a very strict budget. I've got the refera-a-friend button already, and even have started a contest for a FREE GIVEAWAY...but I still need to get the word out to people about it. I already do adwords too. Any suggestions? my website is: www ...

4 months ago - 6 answers

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Here's a few FREE ones that will work for you: Yahoo - siteexplorer ... Microsoft Live! - search ... Google - www ... Jayde - submit2 ... GigaBlast - gigablast ... Scrub the Web (Easy Submit Tool) (FREE) - www ... Try a good traffic exchange: wizardsurf ... I'm giving away 1,000 credits to people who sign up using my link. Use those credits on website hits, banner impressions, and text ads to promote your website. Right now get a FREE LIFETIME PRO upgrade!! 500 credit allowance awarded monthly to promote your website - FREE. Advertise 25 Websites / 25 Banners / 25 Text Ads and SO much more! Support the Traffic Exchange owner, he actively supports and travels to Guatemala to aid of homeless children and build homes. www ...

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4 months ago

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Try article marketing. Time and effort intensive but it works. More info at www ...

by Ami- 4 months ago

Try Craigslist and backpage.com I have a bunch of way's to promote a website.check out www ...

by thecashcoach- 4 months ago

Hi TrafficSwarm is a really good Free Advertising site. As a traffic surf system it provides good quality targeted traffic. TrafficSwarm is unlike most traffic surf programs where there is no interaction by the viewers and people's sites just float by quickly without anyone taking any notice of them. I get heaps of free website visits through TrafficSwarm. Follow this link to them: www ... The really important thing if you want to get traffic is to learn the methods of traffic generation. I can highly recommend an e-course called "Traffic Transformer" by Mark Flavin. He tells you all you need to know. Very informative, practical and well priced for all that it offers, including $125 worth of bonus ad credits for a good advertising site. www ... All the best to you.

by Bruce M- 4 months ago

Write articles about your website or ideas. Submit your website for users to review, free! Post Free Classifieds. Go to Famous Pages famouspages ...

by comps- 4 months ago

The most effective way to advertise on the Internet is to first set up a website and publish its domain name on major search directories such as Google.com, Yahoo.com [at www ... and MSN.com since 85% of Internet shoppers rely on these search directories to provide them with goods and services. In a sense, these search directories are a very large Internet Yellow Pages. Nevertheless, should your website or opening webpage fail to contain "generic" keywords, then anyone using such "generic" queries will not be able to discover your website. Your domain name [URL] of your website, in a sense, will be invisible, undiscoverable. You may want to consider some simple algorithms which, when observed and committed in designing of a website with placement of various critical metatags that can surely achieve a high search engine presence and increase Internet traffic to your website. These metatag strategies work well with published webpages at Google and Yahoo. Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based website, make sure to fill-in the property entries such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can be readily indexed by search robots. Also consider the Internet audience and their incoming setup. For example, if they are on analog/dialup, Flash webpages take too long to load up and therefore analog users will likely lose interest and discontinue entering the Flash site. On the other hand, anyone on hi-speed DSL lines, will welcome Flash pages which load quickly. So before designing a pure Flash websitge, ask the simple question, "Who's my end user - is he on dialup or DSL?" And if you had to choose between these two users for maximum marketability, then select analog users since 80% of most resident users are still analog Internet subscribers and pure HTML designed webpages is best for them. A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text, is far easier to be indexed by search robots. Limit the use of stylized text saved as .gifs since as a graphic, they are not indexable by search robots. Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots are unable to properly classify textual material. Placement of Metatags: A ranking or search order does take place with Google and Yahoo and it begins with the "Title" metag which should consist of no more than 65 characters separated by commas. The "Title" should describe in generic terms, the goods and services, followed by a location from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state. The placement of a domain name which is not generic within the "Title" is not appropriate, unless your domain name is a major recognizable brand name. The second metatag is the "Description" which is usually 25-30 words to form a complete sentence which best describes one's goods and services. And the very last category - "Keywords" are also somewhat limited to 15-16 words which can be plural and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries which could be mistaken as "spamdexed entries" which is defined as the loading, and submission of repetitive words into a particular metatag category. "Spamdexing" when discovered on a webpage and reported to Google's spamreport.com can result in the elimination of your website from their search directory. Here's an example of a very highly-placed website on Google.com: Begin with the very "generic" search query "sandwiches downtown los angeles," taking note to not abbreviate Los Angeles to "LA" and of course, leave out the parentheses ("). It will bring up some 2.4 million+ search results. Check out where "Nazos.net" is ranked. It's ranked No. 1! Again, Nazos.net's high web presence was achieved by proper web design and placement of relevant metatags according to Google's publication guidelines. Good luck!

by vicseo- 4 months ago