10 Free Effective Ways to Marketing your Website

There’s no additional cost to include your domain on every public piece of paper that might leave your office: packing slips, business cards, spec sheets. Also include your URL in PowerPoint presentations and all forms of packaging: labels, bags, ribbon, cartons, and promotional items.

Most email programs such as gmail, yahoo, and hotmail allow you to create a signature block that appears on every email you send. Even include your name, address, and phone number.

Imperative words encourage visitors to do a specific action on your website. Examples are buy now, save, register now, FREE. Every buyer LOVES seeing free and also include promotions and coupon codes.

Testimonials make your website stand out from your competitors and they are golden! Be sure that you get their name and to not put “anonymous” as a source. You can collect testimonials from letters you receive, forums or comments. Don’t forget to not put them just on your homepage, but try to scatter them around your site for everyone to see.

It takes literally 5 minutes, if not less.

Google- http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

Yahoo- http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit

      Bing- http://www.bing.com/webmaster/SubmitSitePage.aspx

Inbound backlinks from other sites not bring targeted traffic, but also can have a big impact in Google’s search engine results. It takes time but is completely free and brings quality visitors and potential customers to your site. Start off by finding high pagerank sites 4 or higher and go to iwebtool.com and enter your competitor’s URL. Then request links from the site and/or comment. There are various tools to find if a website is dofollow or nofollow.

This is one of the simplest of all Viral Marketing Strategies. Tell a friend lets a visitor email a friend a link to your site with a personal testimonial. Many websites already have these built in, but if not, just google it.

Many shopping sites charge a fee to be listed in their listings. Google/s shopping search engine is completely free to merchants. You can update your inventory monthly and even use RSS Feed to do inventory changes. You can also submit  your print catalogs to google click here.

You can email monthly your inventory changes or promotions to customers with google groups or yahoo. There is tons of free software for bulk mailing.

www.Google.com/local/add/

www.Listings.local.yahoo.com/csubmit/index.php

Free local listings are being offered and even allow users to search for businesses within a specific area. Many consumers like to buy locally to support local businesses. Google also offers a coupon and a logo you can add here. (www.google.com/local/add/coupons)