Ideas: How to Promote your Site for Free
There are actually a lot of ideas around but most of them are obsolete and not effective anymore. Free website promotion and advertising does not require any expertise in advertising. It requires only time, hard work, and dedication.
Myseoblog.net, a “dofollow” blog and now have PR3 and PR2 in some pages got it’s organic traffic from google without spending a cent since launched last November. Others spent hundreds of dollars in promotion of new blogs. These includes directory submissions, blog and forum postings, and even dummy posting. These paid methods are actually less effective compared to free advertising if you are doing it right.
So what I am doing with this blog? Why I am getting traffic without paying anything?
I am going to enumerate the things I have done regarding the promotion of this site. If you are just starting your own blog and don’t want to spend any amount in promotion, you may follow some of the following simple fee ways. I listed only some basic and most effective ways of self promotion.
1. Forum Posting and Signatures - this is by far the most effective way for me to have both short term and ling term visitors. There are a lot of forums to advertise with and to post with your signature. Consider these lists: Free Ads Forums and Moneymaking & webmasters Forums
2. Social Bookmarking - You may also submit your site in Social Bookmarking Sites. Many don’t like SBS advertising but for fast and immediate traffic, this is one of the best options.
3. Yahoo Answers - try to answer some questions related to your site and post your link. I got 3,400 unique visitors in one day last month because of yahoo answers.
4. Entrecard - the biggest contributor in my traffic today. This is very easy and simple to do.
5. Blog Comments - The last thing that I am doing when I have extra time. Posting on others’ blogs with your link could increase your backlinks.
6. Craigslist - I am getting around 20 unique hits per day from a single post in craigslit.
The above is just a basic procedure and good for someone who is starting to create his website. There are a lot of long-term ways but you may try first the above options. It is not advisable for a new webmaster to use advanced SEO tools yet so in order to buil traffic first, forum posting alon and entrecard dropping can give you a substantial amount of visitors.
Other SEO includes Directory Submissions, Link Exchange, Article Submissions, SE submissions, and viral (I personally not recommend) . Additionaly, if your blog has an informative conten and the competitive keyword density is high, you will get your site listed on top of google.
Feel free to post in comment section is you have any additional ideas.
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Related and recommended resources
- Lists and Directories of Dofollow Blogs
- List of “Dofollow” Forums with “Dofollow” Signatures
- List of Moneymaking and Webmasters Forums
- List of Real Estate Forums
- List of Free Advertising Forums
- List of Credit Repair, Loan, and Mortgage Forums
- List of Social Bookmarking Sites
- List of Advertising Network Companies
- Lists of Forum Posting Service Sites
Some really great ideas here, yet so simple! Time to get spreading the word! Thanks!
Nice tips. Of all the above, it’s the joining in forums that I am quite weak.
Maybe I should give way a bit from SBS.
I hope you won’t change your blog theme again. This is your best so far. Congrats!
Wonderful tips and can help increase any sites traffic!
I’ve used a few myself now and its really helped alot.
Keep those tips coming…
I never tried Yahoo! Answers. I’ve always been skeptical about this method. But your article gave me a good reason to give it a try.
And you’re totally right about forums: they do help a lot.
Cheers,
Karen
I have been working on SEO for several years and there are many good resources out there. I would like to see a complete excel document of 500 SEO blogs with DoFollow and above PR 3. Do something like this exist out there?
Søkemotoroptimalisering ,
I am working on that actually and will update you soon as I posted here.. you can subscribe to my rss to get updated.. I am planning to do a list of 1000 dofollow blogs anyway..
Thanks
These are very useful tips
thanks for sharing us
Guess yahoo answers works about the same as the old google answers. Until they pulled the plug.
Lot’s of ideas here. I’ve never thought of Yahoo! answers or Craigslist before. Have just posted an answer on Yahoo! answers with a link so I’ll see how it does. My blog is PR3 and dofollow!
Thanks for the very useful tips
Hey thanks for the tips. I am going to try some out.
Good list, but I’m not a big fan of Craigslist because of the 7 day post expiration.
I must try Entrecard, Many people says that its a good source of traffic
Good tips, putting links in your signature on forums is in my opinion the best thing you could do.
This is such a great idea… thanks
Those a great tips for those of us just starting out. Thanks a lot.
I’d really like to see an article about hard-core SEO (search engine optimization) and what types of keywords you should use, and which would only hurt you.
Is it best to have SEO/META DATA unique for every individual page?
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I have found your blog through your WTF signature so I suppose you are right, forum signatures do help.
I really enjoyed your articles and bookmarked your blogs, thanks for sharing some great tips.
Hi Alex.. Thanks for visiting my forums.. feel free to navigate this page to see the whole benefits of this site..http://myseoblog.net/lists-index/
Thanks
HI! Good article! Will try some of your suggestions. Thanks!
Forum posting is good. Some bookmarking sites are good.
It depends on the google ranking of the bookmarking sites.
its valued the tried and true practice of consistent effort that pays off.