Stuck for ways to advertise your website or get your name known?
Don't know where to go next!
Well to help get you started I have listed over 30 ways you can get your site noticed. Using simple, free, and low cost techniques you can get your name noticed and out in the public domain quickly and effectively.
The point is there are many different methods of promotion, you just need to find the most appropriate to your situation, tune it and exploit it.
Remember that what suits your particular situation may not suit another, so don't worry if you cant apply all of these ideas. But, feel free to bend, twist, merge and wring them into your particular method.
Be imaginative, if you have a wacky business then a wacky promotion would probably go down well with your audience. More sober and 'professional' situations would suit more traditional methods and approaches.
By the way these suggestions are in no particular order other than alphabetic, so dive in and help yourself.
- Answer questions on Yahoo and Google Answers remember your website link.
- Be controversial, it creates curioisty and interest from a reader.
- Create a freebie product to give away (ebook, software, whitepaper etc.).
- Create a sitemap and submit It to Google,Yahoo, Bing.
- Create an Amazon profile and start submitting reviews on what you buy.
- Create articles for ezine sites and publishers, remember your link back to your website.
- Create interesting, engaging copy, publish with attention grabbing headlines/titles, better titles get better exposure.
- Enable your RSS subscribe button/link.
- For any sort of product start an affiliate program.
- Google Adwords, PayPerClick pay for your traffic if you have to but it can be expensive.
- Have a link to your site on community sites like MySpace, LinkedIn, FaceBook, Twitter.
- Have a prominent mailing list / autoresponder subscribe form.
- Have a signature link in any forums that points to your site, often they complain about this on though.
- If you have a noteworthy product create a Press Release with people like PRWeb.
- Link to as many other sites and blogs as possible, when these people see your link stats they may visit your site and link to you.
- Lots of online forums have a place for you to advertise yourself or site in the profile section.
- Make a 404 page that redirects to your homepage preferably with a search box for your site.
- Make comments on blogs with links back to your site.
- Make sure you have a memorable or catchy domain name.
- Make sure your email signature has links to your site.
- Pass out business cards wherever you can, noticeboards, cafes, anywhere.
- Remember the Tell A Friend Script on your site, make use of word of mouth.
- Remember Yahoo and Google Groups keep a link to your site in your signature.
- Review a service, product or company, contact the company and ask for a reciprocal link.
- Sell stuff on eBay with linking back to your website.
- Send your product for review at blogs, related sites.
- SEO the titles of your pages, using keywords people will search for.
- Submit a blog to a blog directory.
- Submit your RSS feed to RSS feed directories.
- Try advertising on other peoples websites, in their mailing lists and newsletters.
- Upload demo videos to YouTube, put your links in the descriptive text and the video.
- Vistaprint it ! Vistaprint have a huge amount of business advertising materials and operate in several countries. Much of their material you can get for free or heavily discounted. Lawn banners, vehicle signs, business stationary. Get them, use them.
So now you have no excuse for getting out there and promoting your business. As usual its all down to YOU.
