No-Budget Internet Marketing

Are you a mere beginner in the field of online marketing?  Are you deprived of the resources to to win the consideration of big time joint venture partners?  lacking the finances required by PPC campaigns?

No problem!

Here are 5 free but highly effective methods you can use to advertise your business on the internet.

1.    Article marketing:  Write an article related to the topic of your online undertaking.  See to it that this article shares something noteworthy.  Submit the article to the main article directories in the World Wide Web, particularly www.ezinearticles.com, www.goarticles.com and www.isnare.com.  Include a resource box, which should mention informative facts about yourself or your venture, as well as the link to your website.  Do this at least 3x every week.  In a short period of time, you will receive direct traffic courtesy of the people who got interested about your articles, as well as indirect traffic as a result of a higher search engine position gained via the hundreds back links you are sure to win per article.

2.    Exchanging links:  This is a matter of you scratching another’s back, and him doing the same for you.  Other internet businessmen are also looking for exposure for their enterprises.  Partner up with them by ensuring to place their link on your web pages if they will reciprocate your kind deed.

3.    Distributing press releases:  Many real world and virtual world publications are always looking for newsworthy items to use.  They study newswires for such works.  You can craft a hype-free, noteworthy news item about your internet enterprise.  You may state the launch of your enterprise, minus self serving words of praise, of course.  You may announce the upload of your web pages.  You may announce the launch of a new item, without the slightest tinge of a sales pitch.  Craft a press release, and distribute the same to online newswires like www.prweb.com, and in a matter of hours, offline and virtual world entities will be picking it up, feeding fantastic traffic to your web pages.

4.    Exploit the power of user-driven web tools:  The beauty of Web 2.0 websites is that the online denizens themselves are empowered to determine what’s hot and what’s not.  You can use this to your advantage by specifically targeting social news networks (Digg.com, Reddit.com, Propeller.com), social networking websites (MySpace.com, FaceBook.com), and social bookmarking services (StumbleUpon.com) and making them a part of your marketing adventures.  Indeed, Web 2.0 websites are free to exploit over and over again.

5.    SEO:  8 out of 10 visitors that you will be able to get for your website will be referred by the search engines.  And search engine traffic is free, if you can create your web pages to win the attention of those search engine spiders