Free Online Marketing Tips - Online Marketing on a shoestring

Category: Getting Traffic, Google, Link Baiting, Link Building, Online Marketing, Product Marketing, SEM, Social Networking

Have a limited online marketing budget? Here are a number of ways to promote your website for free!

Free Online Marketing Tips and techniques:

• Start a blog. Use a free service like WordPress or Blogger. This is an excellent way to attract targeted visitors to your domain. It is a long term project, so be patient. Traffic payoff can often be very significant.

• Setup a Webmaster Central Account. You will be amazed how much useful information you get about how Google sees your website! This information alone (if used correctly) will benefit your site enormously.

• Use Google Maps. If you have an online business, submit it to Google Maps!

• Use GoogleBase. Submit your products!

• Use Social Media. Submit high quality (interesting) content to social media networks. The more interesting your content is, the more effective your social networking efforts will be. Great content is worth gold!

• Press Releases. Write and submit press releases to places like PRLog.org, goarticles.com and ezinearticles.com

• Join Forums. Start intelligent discussions, use your signatures to link, make friends and potential online partners

• Use Flickr. Host and share your photos at Flickr. Don’t share photos you don’t own or have permission to use.

• Use Facebook. Build a Facebook Business Page and start a community focused on your niche.

• Use Twittering. Network with like-minded individuals.

• Blog discussions. Make comments on blogs in your industry and leave a link back to your site.

• DMOZ submission. Its free and well worth it if you are accepted.

• Contribute to Wikipedia. Add your site to where it belongs to on wikipedia.

• Keep your page title tags unique to the content on your page!

• Use Video Media. Make a slideshow of your products into a video and upload to YouTube, MetaCafe and DailyMotion. Include optimize title and descriptions tags. Great for Viral marketing!

• Write more Keyword optimized content. Use a free keyword tool and write more keyword optimized pages for your website.

• Use Google Analytics. Install Google analytics on your website and analyze your traffic! Many clues will be revealed.

• Use CrazyEgg. This is a great heat map tracker that analyze where the user’s eye find and clicks on information on your website.

In time, I will add more to this list and also elaborate of all of the above techniques.

Do place a comment below if you need any of the above elaborated on!