Promote Your Website & Get Found on the Net!

Now that you have your own website you need to drive traffic to it in order to generate sales. Unfortunately just sitting back and waiting for search engines to send you "free traffic" simply isn't going to work. There is a wealth of information about website promotion on the sites listed above and we recommend you spend some time reading these before you start your promotion campaign.

To point you in the right direction we have listed our Top 10 Tips to Promoting your Website below:

1. Get listed on all the search engines not just Yahoo, Google, and MSN as soon as you can. Look at sites like selfpromotion.com to see how you can submit your site to other search engines.

2. Get your site listed in online directories and publications relevant to your industry where people may be looking for your type of business.

3. Ask for backlinks from other relevant sites. Google rates a website's importance by how many other relevant sites are linking to it. So the more relevant backlinks you have the higher you will be ranked on Google.

4. Be an expert. Write articles about different aspects of your business/industry, post them on other websites like ezinearticles.com, and get a link back to your own. These articles can also be used as content by other websites - each one giving you more exposure and another backlink.

5. Write a Blog. You can set up a free blog and write about your business including links to relevant pages on your site. Search engines love blogs and it an easy way of adding fresh relevant content at any time which leads back to your site.

6. Participate in forums. By joining in forums and giving free advice and help to others you will be seen as an expert in your feild and peole will seek you out when they need your professional help. On many forums you are free to post links to your website or even have a link in your signature. 

7. Try PPC (pay per click) advertising. By using PPC you can get your site listed on the 1st page of the search engines results instantly. This is can be a very cost effective way of driving high volumes of traffic to your site quickly. The main PPC providers are Google AdWords, Yahoo Search Marketing, and Microsoft AdCentre where you can place keyword triggered adverts to drive highly target traffic straight to your website.

8. Never underestimate the power of a press release. There are lots of online press release companies where you can submit press releases and promote your business.

9. Don't forget to promote your website offline. Make sure to promote your site anywhere you can. Use your domain name on all your business stationary, all offline advertising, directory entries and any promotional material you produce.

10.Be consistent. Don’t stop advertising and promoting your site when you start getting clicks. Keep going.