Promoting Your websites.

 Free Strategies to have Traffic to Your Website

This is not to say that you will always get what you were promised
 but the value you get normally matches what you paid.
It should then follow that every webmaster should invest some
money in promoting their websites. Here are 7 productive ways of investing those ad dollars.

1. Use a reputable Search Engine Optimization company.
 It is a given that SE provide a doorway to your website
wider than any other. A SE strategy should be part of
 your overall promotion efforts.

There are many companies out there that are promising
what they cannot deliver. Just look up their company's
website under the "search engine optimization" and see
 where they rank. Common sense should tell you that they
 cannot do any better for you. So choose wisely!

2. Use Pay-Per-Click Search Engines. This is basically
 the same as number 1, but PPC SE provides a way
of getting immediate traffic to your site rather than
 waiting for your website to be indexed and inch
 its way up the ranks.

If you are on a small budget then you can use a tool
 such as www.goodkeywords.com to find lesser
 used and therefore lower-priced words. You can then
bid on as many as are relevant to your site. 3. Use Solo Ezine Ads. Solo ezine ads remain
 one of the most low-cost but effective means
 of advertising on the Internet. A solo ad is sent
out by itself to the entire ezine database and
therefore gets good exposure compared to a classified ad.

You can simply do a SE search for ezine
in your field that offer solo advertising.
You can also check out a site such as
 www.litsz.com for a number of widely read ezines.
 With over 300,000 ezines published online you should have
 little trouble finding advertisement space.

4. Buying Leads. Buying leads or mailing list is traditionally
 associated with Network Marketing and the direct mail industry.
 However, this is not so anymore. Many ezine publishers are now
buying subscribers from so called "co-registration"
 companies that send you subscribers at a price.

This is also known as "pay-per-lead" or "pay-per-subscriber"
 services and they offer a guaranteed
way to build your optin list for a very reasonable
fee. You can then market to these leads and offer your
 affiliate program to them. A few such companies are leadfactory.com,
 hiplists.com and worldlist.com.

5. Offer low-ticket items at auction sites. It's no secret that auction
sites such as ebay.com receive a ton of traffic. If you offer cheap
 products you can build your customer list very quickly. You can
 then offer back-end products to increase your return-on-investment.

At least this is one case of "If the mountain cannot come to
Mohammed then Mohammed will go to the mountain"
Go to where the traffic is and the traffic may follow you!

6. Run off-line ads. Many of the companies that do very well
on the Internet are those companies that already had an off-line presence.
 They had their branding done before they entered the dotcom world.

It is very easy to forget newspaper classifieds and magazine ads when
marketing on the Internet. You can use a car decal with your website
address and tagline for example to lead visitors to your site.

7. Provide a Press Release. Do you think that you have a website or
 service that the world should know about? Then maybe they can
know about this. You can pay a company such as
 pressreleasenetwork.com to do a press release for you.
 You can never tell which online and off-line news network
 will pick up your story and give you that shot in the arm that you are looking for.

If you need help in the writing of your press releases
 you may check a service such as ereleases.com.

As a final note I would just like to remind you that
we pay for things in cash or time. Most free services require time
 and therefore are not 'really' free. We all have the same amount
 of hours in the day but we can use our money to leverage our time.

This would be more productive that using the
 more competitive and higher-priced keywords.