I've been on the internet for over three years and have found some inexpensive ways to keep my website at the top of the search engines WITHOUT DOING GOOGLE ADDWORDS or PAY PER CLICK.
Here are some ideas you might find helpful in getting your site out there:
MESSAGE BOARDS: Message boards are a great way to get acquainted with those in your target market for FREE. Find message boards where your target market visits. Participate in message boards in a professional manner, offering advice and insight. Keep it professional. With every post leave your URL in your signature line. As people begin to trust and respect you they will often go to your URL link to investigate more.
Locate Message Boards for your Target Market: www.BoardTracker.com
BLOGS: Blogs are a powerful tool for marketing and promotion. Because the entries are short, and often full of links, they are more keyword heavy than standard articles often are. Plus, being short, they are easy for your customers to read (and you to write), so they are more likely to come back daily to see what you might have to say on that day.
View My personal BLOG at: HomewithMiaBella.blogspot.com
WRITING ARTICLES: Brand yourself and get your name out there by writing articles. The search engines look for as many links as possible. This is a great FREE linking opportunity as others will grab YOUR articles and put them on THEIR sites. Therefore, a link to your site is generated.
I have a button on my personal site that identifies me as an EZine Article Expert. This takes my viewers to all the articles I have written.
Check it out at the bottom of my home page: www.HomeWithMiaBella.com
BECOME AN E-ZINE EXPERT AUTHOR: To become an article writer you don't necessarily have to be an expert on something. Just choose something you have a passion about. It does not have to be related to your business. You could write on cooking, dog grooming, website building, parenting, etc. Whatever you write on, just make sure you put information about your business in your BIO.
People are always looking for article content to include in their BLOGS, on their WEBSITES, NEWSLETTERS, etc. So if you have an article that they like, they will publish your article and include your BIO.
You can view my various article topics at: E-Zine Article by Gail Wahl
MYSPACE, FACEBOOK, SHOUTLIFE etc.: Social networking with these marketing tools is a NO COST option. These are great avenues to build relationships with people which create long term customers/prospects. These customers/prospects know 100's of other people who they may pass your information to. This is also a great way to pre-qualify your leads. Read the profiles, they are like resumes. Get to know them to find if they would be a good match for YOU!
Check out my social profiles at:
www.MySpace.com/GailWahl
www.Shoutlife.com/GailWahl
www.Facebook.com/GailWahl
SQUIDOO: Squidoo is a powerful tool to get traffic to your website. Everyone is an expert on something. Squidoo gives you an opportunity to market yourself as an expert and build your reputation on line.
In a nutshell, Squidoo is FREE space on the internet to use as you wish. Anyone can make a lens (a page like this) and have exposure on the internet.
Check out my Squidoo Lenses:
www.squidoo.com/NetworkMarketingDefined
www.squidoo.com/GailWahl
www.squidoo.com/HowToSetUpMyspace
