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Finding ways to advertise and market your website can be a daunting task, especially if you do not know what to do or even where to start. Here at Home Business Resources we will try to steer you in the right direction!

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If you are in need of some low cost to free ways to advertise your website on the internet, you have come to the right place. We have searched to web for resources that actually work, to help bring traffic to a website, for any niche or business. Come back often, there will always be something new!

Why Getting Traffic to your website is So Important

Why getting Traffic to your Website is so Important


If you own or are thinking of owning a website, getting traffic or possible customers is the most vital piece to succeed in our cyber world today. You could have the best product, or the best opportunity out on the internet, but if you do not have traffic hitting your website, have the best thing out there is null and void. So getting quality traffic to your website should be one of your first course of action. In this section, I will try to provide you with sources that you can get for free, or close to nothing. I have tried MANY services and read many ebooks on driving traffic to websites, and a lot of them are NOT useful. You have to be very careful in what you use and do in regards to driving massive visitors to your site. So lets get started!

Writing Articles/Blogs

Any marketing guru will tell you that the best way to get your website not only indexed by the major search engines quicker but drive interested visitors to your site, is writing articles and submitting them to Ezine Directories, Article Directories, ect. The best thing about this strategy is that it is TOTALLY free. If you are on a tight budget, this is a cost effective way to drive free traffic to your site.

You need to provide valuable information and content rich articles that others might be interested in. Search engines LOVE this stuff. Even if you are not a great writer, you can even have someone write you an article if you need it. It is now important to have as many links as you can get linking back to your site, and writing articles and submitting them is one of the best ways to achieve this. Here are the top 10 Article websites you can post to:

  1. Ezine Aritcles - http://ezinearticles.com/
  2. MagPortal - http://www.magportal.com/
  3. Article Markerter - http://www.articlemarketer.com/
  4. Amazins - http://www.amazines.com/
  5. Buzzle - http://www.buzzle.com/admin/login.asp
  6. WebproNews - http://www.webpronews.com/submit
  7. Article Alley - http://www.articlealley.com/
  8. Article On - http://www.articleson.com/
  9. Article Spot - http://www.article-spot.com/
  10. Self SEO - http://www.selfseo.com/submitstory.php

Blog are probably the best thing since sliced bread in regards to free web exposure. It is pretty important to have a blog. Even if you just write an entries every few weeks. You can utilize a blog in so many ways. Here are the top blog websites that you can sign up with Free!

  1. Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/
  2. Word Presshttp://www.wordpress.com/
  3. Blogstream - www.blogstream.com
  4. Blogit - http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Redir/?c=1118&n=gg&co=US
  5. Blog Rankings - http://www.blogrankings.com/

Use a blog to your advantage, make sure you submit something every few weeks and keep your content with rich with good key words and you will be on your way to driving Free traffic to your website!

Submitting to Free Classified Sites

Here is another Free way to advertise your website. Using free classified sites can be a time consuming task, and a lot of the time, your ad will only stay active 7 days at a time so resubmitting each week can really drain your time. So, is submitting to Classified sites worth your time? Yes and no. Now if you have nothing to do, and you are REALLY low on cash then, YES, by all means, post away! BUT if you can spare a small amount of cash, you can get a service to submit your site to hundreds of Classified sites with a push of a button. Here are the best site that offer this service.

  1. Ad Sumitter - $39.97 per month http://www.adsubmitter.com/?GCID=C14158x008&GTKW=free+classified+ads
  2. Mega Web Promotion - $29.00 http://www.megawebpromotion.com/ClassifiedAdvertising.asp
  3. Link Scout - Free
  4. http://captkirk.linkscout.com/index.cfm?page=index

Submit your Site to Search Engines

This is the BEST way to get free visitors to your site but it comes with some hard work and dedication on your part. 10 years ago, submitting a site onto a search engine with less content would get your on the top automatically especially if you were providing a valuable service. But today, there are over a BILLION websites on the internet so getting your website towards the top for a certain niche or service is pretty difficult if do not know what you are doing. Search Engine want unique and valuable sites indexed on their directory, and that is why many affiliate websites have a hard time getting to the top of the list or indexed at all. This is where blog creation and articles come in handy!

Submitting your website to major Search Engines can also be time consuming and tedious. Once you have your site submitted, it can take 2 weeks up to 6 weeks for your site to even get indexed. Google can take a LONG time to index your site. And once you submit your site, you will in to continue submitting at least once a month. Search Engines will drop sites if they are not submitting consistently. If you want to save time, I would suggest your use a Search Engine submitting service or a SEO (Search Engine Optimization) company. Most of these services are a bit pricey but they can save a LOT of time. Listed below are some of the best, with various price differences.

  1. Engine Seeker – Free Trail

www.EngineSeeker.com

  1. Blast Engine - $29.95

https://www.blastengine.com/index.jsp

  1. Submit Express – Free

http://www.submitexpress.com/

  1. Add Me - $49.95

http://www.submitter.net/addme/

  1. StartRanking – Free

http://www.startranking.com/

6. dot9Webhosting – Starts at $29.00

http://www.dot9webhosting.com/site-submit

7. Build Traffic – Free Trail

http://www.buildtraffic.com/indexnew.shtml

8. Fast Submit - Free

http://www.evrsoft.com/fastsubmit/

9. TrafficXSs - $99.00 per month

http://www.trafficxs.com/platinum.htm

10. Submitter – Starts at $49.95

http://www.submitter.net/?source=google_sub


These are just some of them. There are thousands of site that offer this service, just be careful when putting a company to go with. If they have testimonials, make sure you read them. Personally, I would go with the service that has a guarantee. Have fun submitting!

Free Advertising – Traffic Exchanges/Banner Ads

Some people might think that free can’t get you anywhere in regards to website promotion. Well, I think they are wrong. There are so many resources and programs out there that you can use that are totally free and effective. Traffic exchanges and using Banner ad exchanges can totally work but you have to put a bit of effort before you will see results. They are all pretty easy to start and activate and just about anyone can use them. Now if you do not have banners to submit, you can sometimes find a free service where you can design your own banner for free. (Just search FREE Banners and something should come up). How I am going to give you site that I have personally used that will help you on your way to free traffic.

  1. Traffic Swarm – FREE

http://www.trafficswarm.com/go.cgi?775217

  1. Leap Traffic – FREE

http://leaptraffic.com/?r=61794

  1. EasyHits4U – FREE

http://www.easyhits4u.com/?ref=eyebee14


More to come.......Stay Tuned




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