Believe it or not you can market your website business to greatest effect with very little or no cash. You can’t do this with paid advertising or with Pay Per Click ads! But we’re going to take a look here at some of the best and most popular free Internet marketing methods that won’t bust your budget..

Here are my picks for free online marketing:

1.Article Marketing – A typical article can be anywhere from 250 to 750 words long. Articles posted on article directories (such as ezinearticles.com) can help you get more traffic to your website through the link in your article signature file. You should be aware that some article directories do not accept short articles so you need to check the directory rule before submitting articles. Each article can also help the specific web page it links to to rank higher in the search engines for specific keyword phrases, which will then bring more targeted traffic to your web page.

2 .Do-It-Yourself Search Engine Optimization – You can find out a lot about simple SEO techniques free of charge by doing some basic online research with Google. Study the techniques and build each of your web pages around sound basic SEO principles. This will attract some traffic to your site without you having to do any active publicity work.

This is especially effective if you combine SEO with longtail keyword phrases. Longtail keywords are longer keyword phrases that are very specific. They attract a smaller number of more highly targeted visitors and are much less competitive than more common keywords. If you build a series of ten webpages around ten longtail phrases, and each page attracts just fifty visits per month that will amount to 500 visits in total from highly targeted traffic. The more you build the more your traffic will continue to grow without you having to do additional work.

3. Blogging – Blogging is a free or very cheap way to build an online presence. Some Internet marketers stick solely to blogging and focus on building an online presence through the power of their blog posts alone. If you have a lively writing style and enjoy writing, start blogging! Whether you use Blogger, WordPress, TypePad or some other blogging platform, blogs tend to get great results on the search engines. A blog post around a longtail keyword can appear on the first page of Google for that search term within hours of being published.

4. Posting blog comments – This marketing tactic should to be done with care. Find popular blogs that are related to your market niche and post responses to the blog posts. When posting a comment you are usually allowed to include a website url which will hyperlink your name when your comment appears on the blog. Always post constructive comments in response to the topic of the blog. Remember, high quality comments will be appreciated and will get people curious to find out more about you. They will then click on the link to  your website.

5. Forum marketing – Log in to several forums that are similar to your market niche. Set up a signature file with a link back to your website and contribute to the conversations on the forums. Each time you post a comment your signature file will appear underneath. As with blog comments, it is important to offer good quality comments to be accepted as an asset to the forum and to show that you are an expert in your field.

6. Post Videos On Video Sharing Sites – If your computer has a web cam then it won’t cost you anything to make “talking head” style videos and post them on YouTube.com. Whenever you upload a video you can also post a blurb with a link back to your website.

7.Link exchanging – Although somewhat dated now, link exchanging still offers a free method of getting your website “linked in” to the Internet. You can either seek out sites you would like to exchange links with and contact the site owner, or join a free link exchange service and do it that way.

8. Traffic Exchange Surfing – If you have time to spare, you can always get free traffic by surfing traffic exchanges. However, be sure to post only simple squeeze page style pages on the exchanges because people usually click away from web pages very quickly on traffic exchanges. Create a simple page with a bold headline, a free offer and sign up form, and include a photo of yourself and your name to help build up your online profile.

As I’ve illustrated here, there are numerous ways to drive free traffic to your website. Even if you are operating with a limited budget you can still successfully build and market an Internet Home Business

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