TRAFFIC BUILDING LINKS
Not all of these are free, most are.
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(This from Anna Marie Stewart from AdlandPro
http://community.adlandpro.com/go/njaeanna/Default.aspx )
I've found that there are a lot of ways to get free advertising and my favourite
is by writing articles and including my 'resource box' at the bottom with a link
to my website. I love to write about the things that I know so it comes quite
easily to me, fortunately (although I have a hard time coming up with topics
LOL)
Here are some more ways to get free advertising:
Here's a list of 5 different ways to "ad-swap" for free.
Reciprocal Links:
Basically, this is where 2 sites agree to show a link to each other. This can
work wonders for search engine ranking, so long as the site you swap links with
is relevant to your site.
Banner Exchange:
In layman's terms, the concept behind a banner exchange is "I'll put your ads on
my site, if you’ll put my ads on yours". Banner exchanges are different to
simple link swaps in terms of how many potential site visitors can be reached.
Text Link Exchange
This is pretty much the same as reciprocal link swapping, apart from here
there’s a whole Network of sites, where all participants display text ads in
exchange for credits which are converted into ads to be displayed on other
sites.
http://www.txtswap.com/
Web Ring:
Web Rings are basically a group of like-minded sites all linking to each other.
Web rings are usually made up of small/midsize sites. The number of web rings
and member sites runs into the millions. A web ring can be created on just about
any topic, by just about anybody.
After creating a ring, the ring owner is responsible for attracting and
approving applicants. Approved sites become part of the web ring.
The first original web ring system, which is now part of Yahoo! is still the
most popular and can be found here:
http://www.webring.org/
Word of mouth:
This is another extremely valuable advertising medium. Having someone recommend
your website to their friends and contacts because they find the content
interesting, useful, fun, helpful or whatever usually leads to more
subscribers/sales/visitors and so on.
Add a Tell-A-Friend option to every page of your website. There’s lots of free
ones out there. The one I use is free and available at
http://tellafriendgenerator.com
wishing you all the best (and feel free to visit my forum too Wink)
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I suggest you also get an Alexa posting to start the Alexa categorization
process. There is something I can help you with. I recommend you register with
http://www.Alexa.com. Alexa is the standard of how traffic is measured and
recognized globally around the world today about how much and the type of
traffic you receive. They have many tools on their website that would take me a
month to teach but I am only going to touch on a few of the relevant key tools
needed to get you aware and started.
To begin with you sign on to
www.alexa.com.
Under their name you will see 3 categories Web Search, Traffic Rankings, Website
Directory. Enter your website into the Traffic Rankings box and click the Get
Traffic Details button. Near the very bottom of the page is "Correct errors and
omissions in this listing." Click on the Correct link. Enter your site name and
description. Make any other updates you feel necessary. Click the Continue
Button at the bottom. To confirm your changes you will need to submit an email
address that matches your domain name. For example my website is
http://dbresearchlc.com so I entered my email address here of
david@dbresearchlc.com. You will then receive a confirmation email from
Alexa.com to this email address. Click the link to confirm in this email
address. This will open an Alexa.com page stating your changes and website have
been confirmed.
This will help people find you on the web. It will improve your rankings with
Alexa.com. It will also bring up a picture to match your website when it is
listed from a search in all the search engines!
For those of you who wish to advertise their traffic rankings with Alexa.com, I
would recommend downloading that button from the webmaster services section
visible on the left column on the home page of
http://alexa.com
I also suggest you purchase a ExactSeek SEOTool. You can find that here,
http://www.exactseek.com/seotools.html You can start it with a 90 days free
trial.
A great tool for submit Press Releases you can get here
http://snipurl.com/greatpr
Another tool by the same company which really helps with
Article Submissions you can get here
http://snipurl.com/articlesubmit
Another good competitor to Google Adwords for much less money is here
http://www.exactseek.com/featured_listings.html