Promoting Your Website

There are many ways to promote your business online and off. The first and foremost are "back links" from other sites that have relevant content to yours. Why relevant? Search Engine "spider food"! If you have a website about a home business and all of your back link text are about home business and the page your link is on has a good rank for the keyword home business then your rank will go up also! Simple and makes perfect sense dosen't it? Request reciprocal links for sites that are related to the content on your site. Do a search using keywords that you have for your site. Visit some of the websites that you find. Look to see if they have Link Partners. Many sites will have a link that says, "join our link partners", or submit your site. If they don't then simply email then and ask if they would be interested in trading links with you. Make sure you notify them of your home page URL as well as your Link Partner URL. Visit forums relevant to your content. Only post if you can be helpful. Do not spam. That will get you a bad reputation fast. When you do post, include you website link. Don't waste a lot of time. If you don't see any posts that you can reply on then move on....In most Niches you can usually find several targeted forums or blogs that are related that you can post comments on. Start your own forum! Many servers offer web space as well as scripts for forums or blogs. That way you can target your own forum to refer to your web page contents. You can get a 30 day free trial for my server. They offer several different scripts for forums as well as blogs. Just "plug it in", and start posting articles! Another way to get multiple back links would be to join a network of friends. Not only do you get to meet like-minded people that are interested in your business, you also get free advertising spots. The Network I have been a member of for over a year is Adland. I get a lot of page visits from banner impressions as well as my text ads. All free. Plus you can start your own forum there and invite all of your friends to join. T he friendliest online environment I have found. My favorite: Article Directories! Why? You write about what you know about. Your Business. What could be more relevant?! Include you signature/Bio with your website link. Be informative and concise in your article, include your keywords in the article. Submit the article to directories like Goarticles Other people visit the article directory to find articles relevant to their pages. They are allowed to download your article and use it on their website but have to keep your name and link intact in the article. Therefore, you could spend 30 minutes writing a content rich article about your site and it may be displayed on hundreds of websites! That affords you "unlimited" links back to your site. Who knows the possibilities. Offline advertising can also be beneficial. Including newspaper advertising, direct mailing, placing your website address on your car, roadside signs. These will be talked about in another article. If your interested in these forms of advertising now. Simply do a search on your favorite search engine for "offline advertising". May we all prosper with health and wealth.