There are many ways that you can leverage the internet, including several free resources to get traffic to your website. If you don't have a website yet, you'll need one for some of these processes to work most effectively, but there are still options included in this article for those of you without a website yet.
You can submit articles to hundreds if not thousands of article directories that will help you promote your business. These articles will also help brand you as an expert in your field. Articles can be used to help you get search engine rankings as well.
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.
Google base is another method of generating leads and traffic to either your website or your retail store. Google base is basically like a big database of all kinds of things including products, events, and any number of other "listings".
You can use Craigslist.org as well to list items for sale, events, such as a sale that your business is having or even products, or things like a coupon code that you can use to get other people to your business or website to buy your product. In my experience, coupon codes work very well on classified ad sites.
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, 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.
Part of social networking is blogging and one of the central ideas around blogging is to initiate a "conversation" which is why blogs have commenting options. Individuals can comment on blogs and usually with a link back to their own website. Finding blogs related to the topics where your business can be promoted is as easy as searching for them on the search engines. In fact, Google has their own blog search engine at blogsearch.google.com
There are dozens of ways you can get free traffic to your website or ways that you can leverage the online world to drive traffic to your physical store as well. These are just a few of the many ways that this can be done. The main thing that is required for long term success is consistency. If you aren't consistent with these methods, you won't gather enough data to find out what works and what doesn't work. If you don't know that, you're spinning your wheels. - 16003
You can submit articles to hundreds if not thousands of article directories that will help you promote your business. These articles will also help brand you as an expert in your field. Articles can be used to help you get search engine rankings as well.
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.
Google base is another method of generating leads and traffic to either your website or your retail store. Google base is basically like a big database of all kinds of things including products, events, and any number of other "listings".
You can use Craigslist.org as well to list items for sale, events, such as a sale that your business is having or even products, or things like a coupon code that you can use to get other people to your business or website to buy your product. In my experience, coupon codes work very well on classified ad sites.
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, 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.
Part of social networking is blogging and one of the central ideas around blogging is to initiate a "conversation" which is why blogs have commenting options. Individuals can comment on blogs and usually with a link back to their own website. Finding blogs related to the topics where your business can be promoted is as easy as searching for them on the search engines. In fact, Google has their own blog search engine at blogsearch.google.com
There are dozens of ways you can get free traffic to your website or ways that you can leverage the online world to drive traffic to your physical store as well. These are just a few of the many ways that this can be done. The main thing that is required for long term success is consistency. If you aren't consistent with these methods, you won't gather enough data to find out what works and what doesn't work. If you don't know that, you're spinning your wheels. - 16003
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Brian promotes websites using employees he trains to do this type of work. You can contact Brian to help you leverage your money and time. He also promotes credit card merchant accounts through his website at MerchantHotline.com
