Sunday, October 08, 2006

The 8 Effective Ways To Market Your Site

 by: Hala Amiereh

Building a Website is the first step to start a business. However, building it and hoping that the Internet surfers will visit your site is unrealistic. The old saying, build it and they will come does not work for a web site as it exists with millions of other websites on the world wide web. Building a website without marketing it is similar to opening a shop in the middle of now where.

We explore here how to attract visitors to your new site:

1- The best way to drive traffic to your site to have the content that your expected visitors are seeking. Content is king. It will get you eventually to be listed on the free search engines such as Google and Yahoo. You can resort to paid utilities to submit your site to multiple search engines. Try www.submitnet.net. Be careful from the funny submission tools where you will eventually have to buy something from them. Check this site to learn in details about Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and how they rank sites.

2- If you have a monthly budget to market your site, you can consider the Pay Per Click search engine providers. Depending how much traffic you seek and what target visitors you want to your site, your budget will differ.

3- Make it easy for your first time visitors to recommend the site to their friends and family. Place a button that says “Tell a friend”. This link should start a process by which the visitor can send an email with a quick note to a friend. To get such scripts, check with your hosting provider if they provide such thing in the provided website builder.

4. Disseminate press releases. This might suit large site as it costs from $650 approximately.

5. There are sites that allow Free posting of links to other sites.

6. Start a Blog. Blogs are becoming a powerful marketing tool that can help you generate traffic to your site. In the blog, you have to link to your website. Blogs generate a good ranking sometimes by free search engines such as Yahoo and Google.

7. Participate in forums with subject related to your site. Aoiv spamming others. Subjects such as “have you seen this great site www.moeny-from-website.com” could generate some leads.

8. Write articles about the subject of your website and submit them to websites accepting author submissions such as articlecity.com. Usually, you get links back to your website. If 100 websites publish your article and it contains a link back to your website, then you easily get 100 links from a single article. Remember, Google Free search engine appreciates how many links link back to your site and that ranks you high when someone does a search for the a keyword related to your site’s content.

About The Author

Hala Amiereh Operates http://www.money-from-website.com site. In this site, she addresses the best ways to make money from websites.