{"id":7301,"date":"2008-11-08T08:45:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T14:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/08\/how-to-get-online-advertising-for-free\/"},"modified":"2008-11-08T08:45:59","modified_gmt":"2008-11-08T14:45:59","slug":"how-to-get-online-advertising-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/?p=7301","title":{"rendered":"How To Get Online Advertising For Free"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Brian Armstrong<\/div>\n

Businesses can take advantage of the internet to get more sales and provide services. Never before has a tool like the internet been available to businesses. You can get more sales, get more customers and ultimately make more money. The following are just a few of the things you can do to get traffic to your website. <\/p>\n

You can submit articles<\/a> to hundreds if not thousands of article directories that will help you promote your business. These articles<\/a> will also help brand you as an expert in your field. Articles can be used to help you get search engine rankings as well. <\/p>\n

Google has local listings as well that you can submit your business information to. The options to submit your site will include rankings for regionally specific keywords such as “Salt Lake City plumber” which will include your listing along with other plumbers in that same area. You may be surprised to find that if you’re listed as a local business elsewhere, your information may already be included. If not, you can always add it and also customize it to include a link to your website as well. <\/p>\n

Another service similar to the local listings is Google base which is Google’s way of creating listings of events, products, photos, and just about anything else that people submit. This is a great way to get your products to show up in Google’s search listings. It doesn’t cost anything to list in Google Base and also has options for uploading spreadsheets.<\/p>\n

Online classified ad<\/a> websites such as Craigslist are great ways to get the word out about new products, new events, products for sale and can be a great way to list regionally specific sales as well. One strategy that works great for online classifieds is a coupon code that can be used on a website or printed out and brought into a store. People tend to respond to offers where there is a “special” deal or even a perceived deal.<\/p>\n

Social networking is best described as communicating and “networking” with other like-minded people on the internet. There’s a lot more than I can even pretend to get into with only a few sentences. Spending time on sites like youtube.com<\/a>, digg.com, facebook.com and several sites like this represent probably the most frequently visited social networking sites on the internet. Sites that facilitate the interaction between individuals through commenting, blogging, posting, instant messaging, etc. would be considered “Web 2.0” sites.<\/p>\n

Blog<\/a> commenting is another way to get some traffic to your site. I personally will read several blogs per week or month and depending on the conversation, I’ll contribute or also if the comment provides especially good value or insight, I’ll usually click through and find new websites this way. People are doing this all the time and your comments will also generate traffic to your sites. Find blogs that typically get multiple comments on any given post and use those for traffic by leaving good comments and adding value to the conversation.<\/p>\n

There are several things you can do to get traffic to your website and if you’re wiling to spend the time, you can get a lot of traffic for free. These are only a few of the methods that I use.<\/p>\n

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About the Author:<\/div>\n
If you’re seriously about promoting a website, you can spend either time or money to get this done. If you don’t spend the money, you’ll have to spend the time. One of the best possible ways to leverage your money is by getting someone else to do the busy work for you. I hire outsourcers<\/a> and train them to do a lot of this type of work for me. I also leverage as much as I can from Google Adwords<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Businesses can take advantage of the internet to get more sales and provide services. Never before has a tool like the internet been available to businesses. You can get more sales, get more customers and ultimately make more money. The following are just a few of the things you can do to get traffic to your website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2866,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[134],"class_list":["post-7301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seo","tag-seo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2866"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}