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Several Promotional Tips for your website

When the time has come to start sending hits to your websitethe first thing you will wish to do is submit it to the maindirectories like Yahoo, DMOZ, Zeal and the smaller nichedirectories which relate to your industry. You have a choice ofsubmitting your site yourself manually or alternately using apaid submission resource instead. Once you are completed wit...

...hthe submissions you have the option of using PPC advertisingsuch as Overture or perhaps the Google adwords program. If youare a home-based business venture you could be on a tightbudget, however, so note that there are a number of othermethods to drive traffic to your website which are either freeor very low cost. The only drawback to this is that thesemethods will often take substantially more time than the paidones but in my opinion are generally worth the extra effort,par...

...ticularly if you are a home business which needs to do manytasks in -house anyway. First of all you can do a reciprical linking campaign. The primesites to swap links with in this regard are similiar butnon-competing, of course. As a general example, if your site isa home improvement site you may want to swap with a homeinsurance company but nowt with another home improvementbusiness site. This type of linking builds web traffic while atthe same time improving your site' link popularity, which willimprove your search engine positioning considerably. After thiscampaign you may post to message boards or perhaps trade forums.These are good free resources that can send you traffic whileyou are waiting for your other efforts to pay off. These sourcescan improve your link popularity too. You may also post toNewsgroups (sometimes called Usenet) but be very careful not tocross-post to more than one newsgroups if you do decide to gothis route or expect to be flamed. You can also submit to the free classified ad services such asthe eclectic Craigslist.org. You may also choose to search for'free classifieds' on a favorite search engines and submit tothose too. You can post your site to blogs but only if you havesomething truly relevent and interesting to add. You willcertainly want to write some article's as well concerning thesubject of your website and post it to the article directorieslike ideamarketers.com, for example. There are numerous otherfree reprint article directories similiar to this one and somewill even syndicate your article for you. You get to have yourresource box at the bottom of your article and this can increaseyour click throughs. If you are writing about a topic you know agreat deal about, you should be able to write an article fairlyquickly. For this reason I also recommend joining a discussionlist like Topica or Yahoo groups. You can post replies and newsubjects as well as posting your website for additional traffic.The internet really is a 'guerrila marketers paradise',according to renowned author Jay Conrad Levinson.