Marketing Tips

Marketing Tips  - ( outside of social media marketing )

Advanced website traffic tactics might sound hard and seem like a daunting task that will also require a large amount of funds. BUT, there are many low cost, effective ways that you can market yourself and/or your business, no matter the type that puts you in a win – win situation. If all you really need to invest is your time then how could it not be a win – win. Employing low cost ways to bring traffic to your site can make you an online success especially in your niche market.

Some of the best ways, believe it or not, especially when starting out, will cost you ZERO dollars, to get your website noticed. For example 

1. Write An Article – Visitors along the world wide web are curious little creatures. Free websites like Ezine Articles is a great place to write and submit your article and best of all it’s free. Just simple write your article, describe your services, business and/or products and include your site. You don’t have to stop at Ezine, publish to as many sites as possible, utilizing all the free one’s you can.

2. Link Exchange – Don’t underestimate the power of exchanging links. This is a very low cost, if anything, advanced way to boost web traffic. It’s simple to do and many will love the idea and welcome you. So, how do you get started. Simple, type into google some of your keywords, go to the sites it pulls and request permission from the author to exchange links.

3. Get involved in forums – When looking to get involved with other forums, look for those which are related to your site and make your presence known. Forums are just like social media websites. Make friends, exchange information and share your website with others. This will help advertise for you and works effectively. Again, it’s FREE.

4. Meta tags - Meta tags are what search engines are looking for so it can include your site in the top results. Putting up meta tags in your HTML code is an advanced website traffic tactic that must not be missed! Low cost you ask? Oh yeah!

5. Directories - Submit your site to directories ! If your site is done poorly, unorganized, all over the place, doesn’t make sense, chances are they won’t pay attention to you BUT most sites are very worthy. Give your site a make over if needed, keeping things fresh and clean and watch your site visitor’s grow.

6. Conduct a survey or initiate a poll – Visit a site similar to yours and announce that you have a survey they can answer. The site and yours reap results so no one’s on the losing end here!