Site promotion tactics - how to get free traffic

Site promotion is essential in getting traffic to a website. You can do it by paid advertisements or you can apply some tricks that use even top internet marketers and which don’t cost them a cent. Learn about the ways of making people link to your website and get free traffic.

How to generate free traffic through link marketing in site promotion.

In my last article about how to get ranked in google in about 10 minutes we have discussed how you can achieve high positions in search engines through some simple tricks. The core of these tricks is “keyword awarness”. However, building keyword rich pages is not enough. You also have to make sure that you get as many - outbound - links to your site pointing from other websites as possible.

Why? Because in search engine rankings link popularity weighs just as much as keyword richness. Link popularity shows how many pages link to your site. Your goal should be to make other webmasters link to your site. And the higher PageRank these referrer sites have the better. Because it is also an important factor in search engine rankings: a backlink from CNN Online is of much more value than a backlink from a poorly visted site hosted at a free hosting service provider. Getting the neccessary links should be a primal part in your site promotion strategy. If you have a limited budget for site promotion then it is best to apply site promotion tactics that cost absolutely nothing. 10 effective ways in site promotion to make people link to your web site voluntarily.

Heres a few links to help you get started with learning about link exchanges, link directories and getting links to your blog or website to help you rank higher in the search engines.

Mark Mason of masonworld.com: Link Directories

Josh spaulding explains if reciprocal link building is still effective

Ever wondered how many links it takes to get ranked in google Keyword Academy will show you how.

Here are a few tricks that you can use to get people link to your site and to promote your site on the internet for free.

Site promotion tactic #1:
Write testimonials: choose products / services whose customers match yours and send your testimonial to the webmaster of the site with a link of your own site.

Site promotion tactic #2:
Write positive reviews of products / services, create your own lists: the best place for it is Amazon.com. In the Listmania you can make a list of products in the category that is likely to interest your potential buyers.

Site promotion tactic #3:
Allow other website owners to publish your articles in exchange for linking to your site. Many webmasters seek content for their site and are glad to get articles for free.

Site promotion tactic #4:
Join or create a webring where sites of similar subject are linked together. It will bring you visitors who have similar interests.

Site promotion tactic #5:
Use forums and message boards to give free advice while promoting your site. Build up credibility. When an advice comes from someone people trust, they will want to know more about you..

Site promotion tactic #6:
Offer a free ebook to your visitors. Tell them they can put it on their website for free download by linking to your website.

Site promotion tactic #7:
Write articles and submit it to on- or offline publishers. At the end of the article put a link pointing to your website.

Site promotion tactic #8:
Issue online press releases. Submit them to a newswire and they will distritube them to thousands of journalists and editors. If you are lucky your press release might be picked up by local or national media.

Site promotion tactic #9:
Offer free space on your website to others to put their own content on it and ask for a link in exchange.

Site promotion tactic #10:
Start an e-zine or newsletter. This will make your subscribers come back to your site. You can also build your own community through it.

How to get in the Top 10 of Google immediately

The above listed site promotion tactics are quite effective but a bit time consuming. Some webmasters don’t have the time to wait months to see results. They want traffic and top rankings instantly. The good news is it’s possible. And it doesn’t cost you a fortune either.

Brad Callen’s name is not unfamiliar with experienced internet marketers. He developed a software that helps you receive a mass of targeted traffic fast. The software - SEO Elite - is actually a search engine ranking software. Using it will get you thousands of visitors a day through the most important search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN. And you will have the desired targeted traffic within weeks!

Why is targeted traffic so important? If you are an internet marketer and promote products or services you rely heavily on traffic. And not just any traffic. Targeted traffic. Visitors who come to your page come for an exact reason. For finding information they are interested in or products they want to buy from you. So this is why you need that traffic. And SEO Elite delivers you that traffic.

How does it work?

- SEO Elite will find thousands of “link submission forms” and will allow you to fill out these forms and submit your link with a single click of a button. Saving you literally hundreds of hours and shooting you to the top of the search engines in record time. You don’t need to have any programming skills either. Just type in once your link’s information and the program will automatically add the same information to every single web site’s “Add a link” page that you want to trade links with. You can watch a demo video about the whole proccess at Brad’s web page.

- You can also analyse your competitors. SEO Elite will tell you in a matter of minutes, exactely why any website ranks at the top by analyzing links. Then, simply you can copy what they’re doing and blow right by them in the search engines.

- The software will find thousands of possible high Page Rank link partners for you. You can then email these websites with a single click of a button! You don’t have to do it manually and spend long hours or days with it.

- You will also be able to monitor your rankings in the major search engines. Rather than manually visiting each search engine to see where your website is ranked, the program will automatically check your rankings for you.

- The software will show you how many of your pages are already indexed in the search engines and wether your link partners have removed your site’s link or not.

Usually - without this software - exchanging links with let’s say 15 other websites can take hours. But with SEO Elite the proccess takes about 25 minutes. And that’s where the program’s greatness lies. It saves you MUCH time. You can read and hear about how other web site owners profited from the software and how it helped them enormously in their sales. If you want quick results see it yourself and click here: SEO Elite Software

A little while back Garry Conn made the decision to remove advertising from his blog.

Why? Would he remove his cheap advertising, Here it is from the Conns Mouth.

I made some fairly large sacrifices towards what I thought would enhance reader experience on my site. That sacrifice was primarily in cancelling all my advertisers on the blog and making it totally 100% advertisement free. Since that time, I can see that I am very quickly regretting that decision as it is totally apparent that having ads or not having ads on the blog makes no difference to you.

And you know what? he’s right. By an large to a greater or lesser extent. It might make no difference to lots of people. Sure we all have our favourite reads and bloggers.

Why is that because quite simply we trust them, they know what theyre doing in their niche and they have a passion and a desrie to share that with their readership and well the should.

Should they be compensated for doing what they love to do ?

HELL YES !!

I have to come know Garry on a somewhat personal basis, mind you I’ve never been out drinking with him or anything of that nature. But over the past few months we’ve developed a relationship you might say. I bug him with stupid questions and he over delivers, we share info,resources and some other things along those lines.

So I have come to develope a trust in Garry and what he has to say any number of given topics.

How does this relate to his advertising woes.

As Imentioned above garry is a go to guy, not only for me but many other bloggers. He has built his name and brand in the blogging world based on trust. SO Just know that when he is selling advertising that he isnt going to just put up loads of garbage ads because someone want to payhim to do so.

Heck no he has a name to up hold and promoting Garbage just isnt the way Garry rolls.

So wheres the beef you’re wondering and what do you get for cheap?

Garry Conn in a nut shell

• Garry conns blog scores over 50,000 unique visits per month,
• generates over 100,000 page views per month,
• has over 50% search engine traffic
• and over 75% of the people that visit my site daily are first time readers.
• The other 25% are regular readers
• Garry writes for a prominent SEO company SEO Blog
• Garry is well know Adsense SEM junkie and make his money doing this in a variety of niches

Interested inhaving your blog or website featured on Garry conn click here >>> Advertise on GarryConn for his rates, theyre LOW.

These are the people in your neighborhood, remember that jingle from mr rogers?

Ok that may have been a little corny but really if you think about it, Search engine markeitng OR S.E.M is really quite about that, well in my mind it is.

I have a little bit of a different approach to marketing and blogging and search engine stuff than do most. I like to think of google or your favourite search engine as a community.

Sort of like walking down the street in your neighborhood and looking at all the store fronts and shops that are set up there.

Taking a trip down one block will show you one group of stores, websties and blogs and with a click of a mouse you’re on the next block.

Why not pop in and say hi, find out what theyre about make a friend or two along the way and see how you can best be of advantage to each other.

How this works is by typing into google the keyword phrase you’re trying to rank for and then start visiting, look for the contact link and bang off an email saying

“Hi Im new here just wanted to say you have a great site or a blog I’m in the same niche market as you and was wondering if or how we could help each other out.”

Or something along those lines, you might be surprised what will come of it.

These websites are run by people, you flesh and blood creatures with lives and families and what not. And somewhere along the line theyre gonna run into hurdle that you may have a solution for.

So take a look at you can provide to someone in your niche, maybe you know a little about SEO, or how to do something in HTML, maybe youre a programmer or a graphic artist. Or any number of many other skill sets.

Approach someone and say hey man I see you do blah, your blah looks good, in exchange for a link or a banner or what ever I’ll help you with that blah and make it a better blah.

Too often I read on blogs about competitve it is and this blog or that one is your competitor and you should crush the competition.

WTF!!!

First competition implies that there is a scarcity of something and there isn’t enough to go around. We’re not a bunch of wild animals living in the bush fighting over the carcass of a dead deer or something.

Depeding on what figures you read there was 26 billion spent online in the first 6 months of 2008, still thinkthere is a scarcity or not enough money to go around better think again.

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