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Trust me, you don’t have to be an expert or hire an expert to promote your web site properly. It just takes some learnin’ and writing content that your visitors want to know.

The places you chose to place the web site promotion articles is varied so you want to learn a bit about them and see if they fit your market.

Think about the follow methods of promotion. They all work but you may find some do better for your niche than others, so don’t shy away from a little research before starting.

  • Article Marketing
  • Press Releases
  • Search Engines
  • Directories
  • Social Media
  • RSS
  • Facebook
  • Video Marketing
  • Blog/Forum Marketing

Somethings that need doing and some that may not because of other ways you are promoting.

1. Submit Your Website to Search Engines

Now for submitting to search engines I don’t actually mean going to a search engine and submitting your web sites there. No way, search engines much prefer to find your site on their own and when they do you will get indexed so much faster than submitting your pages directly to the search engines.

Instead of submitting directly to search engines I suggest you pick up on article marketing and get writing keyword based artilces and get them published.

Personally I always use EzineArticles.com first as they have a high PageRank and Google indexes the articles I submit with an hour or two. Way better than the weeks you will wait when you submit your site to search engines.

I have a few article directories I like, ones with high pagerank. I will leave my top 5 listed below. These directories will help you get your site indexed fast and will also provide backlinks to your web site which will help with your own site’s pagerank.

  1. EzineArticles – PageRank = 6/10
  2. ArticleBase – PageRank = 5/10
  3. GoArticles – PageRank = 6/10
  4. ArticleAlley – PageRank = 5/10
  5. ArticleDashboard – PageRank = 5/10

2. Secure Backlinks From Related Blogs

If you want your site to gain in the search engines listings and get yourself ton more traffic you need to secure backlinks from high pagerank sites and sites that are relevant to your niche.

I look for blogs that don’t use the nofollow tag on links but they are hard to find so the next best thing for me is to be the first to comment and most important with commenting is to add value to the blog post.

So if you are first everyone commenting will likely see it so you can get a lot of extra traffic. Also when you write value added comments you get the attention of the blog owner. That could be gold for your buisness.

Shouldn’t have to say it but DON’T EVER COMMENT SPAM as it could come back to haunt you. I try to remember the domains of spammers so I won’t give them anything useful. Others do as well.

3. Forum Marketing By Starting Discussions, Replying & Your Signature

Know that forums can be addictive and very time consuming so monitor your time and your actions so they are most productive. It’s really easy to just start talking about useless things and that’s okay periodically but let it become a habit that sucks away all your time.

4. Make Your Blog’s RSS Feed Active

I get a lot of visitors each day just from people that are subscribed to my feeds. This is traffic that I may never have had if I didn’t make my feed available.

I use Bloglines to follow blogs I like and I can see from their feeds which blogs have new posts for the day. Any blog I find that peaks my interest gets added to my Bloglines account for easy access.

5. Get Your Blog Listed In Blog Directories

Many people today use blog directories to find relevant blogs. It doesn’t matter what they do it for, for you it’s to get them to notice it.

Bonus Tip: Get Infront of The Camera For YouTube

If you really want to get attention start creating instructional videos for YouTube and any other video portal that will display your videos. Then list them in your blogs so people can find them.

It’s especially important the search engines find them and listing them with links will do the trick.

Check this great web site promotion method ebook.

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