Webmaster Forums - There are hundreds of webmaster forums that generate lot's of traffic, and about 90% of the webmaster forums you will find online allow you to post one advertisement weekly (sometimes monthly or after you have submitted a certain amount of posts, however most of them let you advertise on a weekly basis) You can easily do a search on Yahoo or Google for "webmaster forum" and you will find hundreds of quality webmaster forums that will allow you to advertise for free. Most of these webmaster forums have a forum topic similar to "Market Place", you need to look for the market place forum, and place your ads in the appropriate places. It is very important that you keep up with these free advertisements, and post them every time you are allowed! I will say that again (because it is very important) post your advertisements every time it is allowed by the forum rules, if it is allowed weekly post your advertisement weekly! Here are a few webmaster forums to help you get started... - www.webmasteronline.us - www.im4newbies.com/forum - www.siteownersforums.com - www.webmasterproblems.com - www.webmasters-market.com - www.web-mastery.net - www.greatnexus.com/forums/ - www.sgwebmasterforum.com/ - www.v7n.com/forums/ - www.webmasterserve.com - www.webmaster-forums.net - www.webmasters-meet.com - www.webmaster-talk.com - www.forum.weborum.com - www.easytool.org/forum/ - www.ukwebmasterworld.com/webmaster-world/ - www.netdesignz.org/forum/ - www.w3talk.com/ - www.webmasterads.com Tell a Freind - You can go to just about any javascript site, and you will find a helpfull tool called "Tell a Friend". This will place a link on your website that allows your site visitors to email a freind the URL of your website. (very effective) If you haven't heard this by now you need to start writing articles about your expertise, and submit them to article sites. Article sites have hundreds of other website owners who use the articles that are submitted for their ezines, newsletters, etc. This is an almost gaurantee to help build your link popularity with the major search engines as well, when people use your article on their website they are adding in the links that you have placed within the article that links back to your website. www.ezinearticles.com and www.articlecity.com are just 2 of the hundreds of article sites you can submit your articles to. Build Your Link Popularity - The more sites that link to you raises your link popularity, and the higher your link popularity the higher you will rank on search engines. The best types of links are one way links to your site, but who will want to just link to you for no reason? I will tell you, Website Directories - there are 100's of website directories that offer free listings. Start submitting your site to as many of these as possible, make a point to submit your site to several a week, every week. Here are several that can help you get started... - www.dmoz.com - www.netinsert.com - www.pedsters-planet.co.uk - www.turnpike.net/directory.html - www.kingbloom.com - www.infignos.com - www.bigall.com - www.webxperience.org - www.somuch.com - www.best-websites.net - www.mostpopularsites.net - www.siteinclusion.com - www.onemission.com/d.pl - www.search-o-rama.com - www.lf.cellsina.com - www.quick-silver.org - www.sumwd.com - www.velendi.com - www.mammoth-directory.com - www.gdotz.com Link Exchanges - Exchanging links with related websites can play a very important role in building your link popularity. Make sure you only exchange links with other sites that relate to your website or you could hurt your rankings on the major search engines. www.linkmarket.net is a great place to help you get started with exchanging links with other sites. If you follow these guidelines you will be well on your way in generating traffic to your site, and getting picked up by the major search engines without even having to submit to the major search engines. Make sure you don't get discouraged, most people don't get rich over night, and it usually takes 3-5 years to build a successful business. |
