10 Free & Cheap Internet Advertising Techniques

10 Free & Cheap Internet Advertising Techniques
By Christopher R. Walker

If you have a small budget and you're trying to get visitors to your site, you're going to need cheap internet advertising. The good news is there's a lot of ways to advertise your site for a little bit of money or no money at all. This topic is very extensive, so I'm just going to scratch the surface of each technique in this article. What you will get is some very useful suggestions that you can use as a starting point on your quest to advertise your website the cheapest way possible.

1. Content - Make sure your site has free content such as articles and free eBooks. You need to keep adding to these, so people will keep returning to your site.

2. Articles - You can write articles that focus on the same or similar topics that your website is associated with. For example, my site is devoted to educating people on how to make money using the internet. I wrote this article, because this is useful information for anyone trying to make money with a website of their own. Once you have your article written, do a search for sites that allow you to submit articles to them and post your article on these sites. You will be able to have links to your website in the author bio box that's associated with your article. In addition to people being able to click on the links to your website, this technique also improves your search engine rankings.

3. Newsletters - Give everybody that visits your site the opportunity to get something for free by signing up for your email newsletter which you will use to market products to them. A good bonus is an email mini-course on a topic related to your site that they get free for signing up for your newsletter. Remember to make sure your newsletter doesn't just have selling. You need to give them a lot of good content or they will unsubscribe from your mailing list. You may want to spend a little money for a service that will handle your emails for you.

4. Classified Ads - There's a lot of internet sites that offer free classified advertising that you can use to promote your site. Make you a template in notepad or word and just keep pasting it on different sites, so you don't have to keep typing your ad. This will save you a lot of time.

5. Twitter - The best advice I can give you is make sure to give your readers good content and you'll constantly gain followers. This is a very extensive topic with a lot of methods. I suggest you read a book that covers this topic in greater depth.

6. YouTube - Make a good video that has some advertising for your site along with a lot of useful information or entertainment. Try to make the video as entertaining as possible, because the amount of traffic you receive from it will rely solely on people having a reason to look at your video.

7. Facebook - To put it as simple as possible, you just need to get as many friends as possible. When they look at your profile, they'll see your website's advertisements.

8. Forums - Offer useful advice to people and give a link to your site in each one of your posts.

9. Blogs - Comment on blogs that are in the same category as your website and leave a link to your site.

10. Web Directories - These are similar to the yellow pages with the exception that they're on the internet.

This article should help you with some ideas on how you can get free and cheap internet advertising. All of the techniques listed above have been proven to generate traffic. Try using 1 technique a week and see what gives you the best results for your particular site. Then, focus your time on what gives you the best results for your effort.

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