Free advertising for your website
Every day hundreds of people build a website with hopes of
making a fortune off the Internet. They may be new to building
websites and end up with something simple and plain, or they may
even be an experienced web designer. No matter what the case,
they build their website, and hope that millions of people come
to buy whatever they are selling. This is where the reality of
owning a website hits them square in the face. Nobody comes to
their site. They don't get any traffic and they soon forget
their dream, and go back to living the life that they have come
to know. It doesn't have to be like that. There is a way to
generate traffic to a website, and you don't have to spend a ton
of money doing it.
Most people that try to start a small business online don't
realize the competition they are up against until they are knee
deep in it. They try to put some ads on other websites to
generate traffic, but soon find out that they just do not have
the money that it takes to place an ad on a website that will
generate enough traffic to make it worth while. They resort to
exchanging links with anyone that will trade with them, and
still nothing happens. It begins to get expensive and
frustrating, and it doesn't take long until they give up on the
idea. However, what they should have done was concentrate on
their own website a little more. Not just how it looks and
whether or not it has fancy little pictures and animation on it,
but how it is structured, and how it looks to a search engine.
When a search engine looks at your site, what does it see? Well,
it does not see all of the pictures and time consuming graphics
that were put into it. A search engine could really care less if
your site has the most awesome looking logo that has ever been
created. It only wants content. Content is what it craves, and
content is what propels your website into stardom on the
Internet. A little time in preparing your website with some simple
search engine optimization could have saved you a lot of
time and money. It may have even helped you to create a website
that would have made you the money you dreamed of.
Content is what draws the attention of a search engine. Without
it, your website is just a small little fish in a giant fish
bowl. Search engines look for new content to be added, and then
they watch for people searching for content that matches yours.
That is how you begin to receive traffic to your website. It
will not be just random traffic either. It will be traffic that
was searching for what you have, and traffic that wants to see
more of it. With any luck, they will like it enough that they
will do some advertising for you. Maybe they will post a link to
you on their website, or maybe they want to tell their forum
buddies about what they found. Wherever they do it, it is free
advertising for you, and a link on the Internet that just might
draw another customer.
You can still pay for advertising, and you can still ask other
sites for a link. However, now your are doing it with the
confidence of know that what you have to offer will be something
that they will want to see, and something that they might even
want to share. It is about creating something that search
engines and visitors want, and it is about giving your visitors
something to take with them when they leave. It is free
advertising, and that is the best kind.