Free Online Marketing for Your Product or Business
Ways to Market Your Product Or Business on the Internet For Free
By Teresa Hudson
In today’s world, the internet is a powerful tool for marketing for free, but there are so many different choices. How should someone know which one is the most effective? In truth, all methods of internet marketing can be effective, but it takes different amounts of time and commitment to be successful. Here is a general overview:
1.Traffic Exchanges: On these sites you “surf” through many different advertisements. In exchange for each site you load up, you get a certain amount of credits. With these credits you can buy your own advertising. Different sites have slightly different programs, but usually you can spend your credits on banner advertising, text links, or putting your site into the pile of sites to be surfed.
However, all of your advertising stays on the website you are surfing from, it does not broadcast all over the internet. Also, much of the “traffic” you get are just people who are quickly surfing through a site to get credits and not reading anything, so it’s hard to get quality leads.
2.Safelists and Classifieds: These are free and easy. However, thousands and thousands of people post to free classifieds and safelists, which makes it hard for your ad to stand out in the crowd. You have to flood the classifieds and safelists with your ad in order for it to be seen. This takes a lot of time and needs to be done every single day.
3.Social Networks: Social Networking can be time consuming, but it’s also more dynamic, fun, and a source of good leads. Social Networks, if done properly, fit into attraction marketing where people come to YOU instead of you trying to find them. Some popular examples of social networks are myspace.com, facebook.com, and zenzuu.com. The idea is to make a profile that tells people about you and is sprinkled with your business links and information. Join groups and discussion forums relating to your business and get talking to people! To get leads, make sure you are helping people and letting them get to know you, not blatantly advertising to them.
4.Article Marketing: Article marketing is great for people who enjoy writing, and it goes well with social networking too. In this category, you write blogs and articles and submit them wherever you can. Websites like Ezinearticles.com will let you submit articles. Once they are approved you can submit the actual article to search engines to help them get searched out. Article marketing is great, because once you write them, they are on the internet forever.
5.Web SEO: This is the art of writing web pages that are search engine friendly. The idea is to write a page about your product or service and get it into the top ranks of different search engine. This will get you a lot of clicks and hopefully a lot of sales. This is another time consuming way to market, but like article marketing, once the page is out there, it will be available and attracting people to you forever.
These are some of the main methods of free internet marketing. The best way to be successful is to pick one or two, preferably two that work together, and stick to it. If you try to do all five, it will be much harder to be successful in any of them, since they all require a lot of time and dedication to work properly.
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