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rsty1
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# Posted: 28 Mar 2006 13:35
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hello,
I am triing to find free advertising and I keep ending up at google or other places that end up wanting money. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
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netjobs
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# Posted: 28 Mar 2006 23:33
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Yep, now google adwords is the highly valuable advertising to get good targeted traffic for websites... and its also pretty much low cost advertising comparing to other way of advertisements and also you are going to pay only for clicks and not for impressions... so its a good option for everybody...
for Free Advertising for traffic:
try Free Classifieds, Signatures in Forums, Link Exchange with relevant sites and keepup good keywords for your site and that could help also to place in good positions in SE's...
Happy Earnings...
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# Posted: 29 Mar 2006 06:09 · Edited by: agoodsaid
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Hi there Rusty -
The first thing I see isn't related to finding free advertising it's about where you're sending them once you do find the traffic sources that suit you. You have to have a lead capture page at the other end of your ads or you will have no idea who's been there who would really like to talk to you.
You also have to have some plan of how to begin to build a relationship with them, especially with the company that you're pointing to since you can't advertise openly online with them ... getting on the phone is imperative.
Forums, websites that build know like and trust and article writing would be my top three choices.
I have a free eBook download that you can navigate to if you want. The link looks like an affiliate link (though it's not) so it won't sit well putting it into this post.
This eBook called "Success in 10 Steps" may really resonate with you. It's about why building NWM companies 'the old way' doesn't work.
The group (Mentoring For Free) teaches you how to generate your own leads. By 'opting in' to receive this eBook, I receive your information and it becomes my responsibility to answer any questions you may have about the group ... there is no compensation for this, it's just a way for a bunch of like-minded people to find their way to each other.
See my picture on my website?
The link is at the bottom of 'My Success Story'
I'll go track down another post that I have tucked away here somewhere about getting traffic to your site
Have a good one!
Andrea
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agoodsaid
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# Posted: 29 Mar 2006 06:14
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Me again
I got this from Jennifer Clason over on www.mommyjobs.com.
hth,
Andrea
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How Do I Get Traffic?
The biggest question site owners are asking these days is "how do I get traffic?" It is definitely much harder with the growth spurt of the Internet, however it's not impossible!
There are TONS of ways to build up your traffic. Here are some of the most common methods.
1. Learn Search Engine Optimization - this is probably the most important way that you want to get traffic and probably the hardest too. Search engine traffic is highly targetted traffic of people who are searching the web for a specific item. If they get to your site after searching for it, you're almost guaranteed a sale or at least a "bookmark for later".
2. Trade links with other sites - It's important to get your site name out there. So trade links with several other sites, even your competitors! People really do look at those links pages and they will find their way to your site from another site.
3. Post on message boards - When you post on highly trafficked message boards, BE SURE to put your site link in your signature! This is a highly effective form of marketing, especially if the message board you are posting at is relative to your site content.
4. Use email signatures - Make it easy for your customers to contact you! When they write to you and ask for more information, be sure that you are using a signature with your site URL and name inside of it. That way if they want to retrieve it later, it's easier for them than having to memorize your URL and open a web browser.
5. Join Yahoo Groups - This is pretty much the same as message boards. Join groups that pertain to your site's content and advertise (but don't spam!!) your site there.
6. Post on free classifieds sites - Sites like Craig's List or other free advertising classifieds sites will accept your site for free! Just do a Google search for "free classifieds" and you'll see a ton of sites come up where you can promote your site!
7. Buy ad space - If your monthly budget allows, you can buy some ad space for your site. Find another site that pertains to your site's content and ask them what their advertising prices are.
8. Hold auctions - Ebay gets TONS of traffic a day, while you're not allowed to post your site URL within your auction listings, you are allowed to put it in your "about me" page. So think about listing some of your products as auctions and advertise your URL.
9. Offline advertising - Get custom t-shirts, bumper stickers, car decals, etc made for your site URL. Then whenever you are out in public, you are passively advertising yourself!
10. Submit your site to directories - If your site is a site about "fishing" for instance, do a Google search for "fishing directories" and see how many directories are out there that pertain to your subject matter. Most of these directories will allow free submissions.
11. Write articles - Writing articles that pertain to your site is another excellent way to get your site out there. Just write a short, informative article of 5-6 paragraphs and submit it to any site that accepts article submissions and make sure that your article includes a link back to your site in your "author biography".
12. Submit press releases - Even if your site is a small work from home site (i.e. "Susie's Candles") it IS newsworthy! Let's say your candle site released a new candle called "Vanilla Cream". Submit a press release about it, I'm serious!! A good place to start is called http://www.prweb.com Or you can do a Google search for "submit press release" and a zillion other sites will come up.
13. Have great interactive content - People will bookmark your site if you have interactive and dynamic content. Have polls, message boards, interactive games, news items, guest books, item of the day....whatever! Just make the site relevant and have good SUBSTANCE in your site content. Don't overload it with silly animated graphics, sounds, etc. That just makes it look like you had nothing else to fill your site up with but this annoying stuff. And Flash intros are only good if you are two years old and need to see flashing lights and colors. Most of all they are slow loading, and people generally click away if they see Flash.
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rsty1
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# Posted: 29 Mar 2006 15:21
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Thank you andrea,
You have provided a large amount of information to me!
thank you,
rusty
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Xperior
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# Posted: 29 Mar 2006 17:11
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Don't forget blogger.com, it's free and is a great way to get additional traffic for your website. Just remember to submit it to the search engines and keep it updated with new info every few days.
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driver
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# Posted: 29 Mar 2006 21:25
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Don,t rule out offline methods to get traffic to your site, one cheap way is drop cards, they are like a business card with a catchy short message and your site address, you can print them off on your own computer for next to nothing, use a good quality paper, business card grade and in colour,drop these cards every where you go, gas station, resturants, any store your in, I am sure you get the idea, you may get less traffic but those that take the time to pick up the card take it home an enter your site tend to be a little more serious than someone just clicking links,any method free or paid takes time, stick it out and success will come
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WhitePhoenix
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# Posted: 3 Apr 2006 23:29
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Don't forget to add your signature/website addy to all your mail. After all, we get ads in with our bills every month, while not send them yours??
You can also print out flyers fairly cheaply from your own computer - go to a parking lot and slip them in windshield wipers. Many of them end up on the asphalt, but I've seen many end up in the vehicles as well.
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# Posted: 4 Apr 2006 11:36
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Quoting: Xperior Don't forget blogger.com, it's free and is a great way to get additional traffic for your website. Just remember to submit it to the search engines and keep it updated with new info every few days.
Hey Rusty,
This is a good way to get free advertising. Also, you can promote special interest, show some of what's inside of your website in the form of posts... The list of ways to self-promote by blogging are endless.
You can also get a couple of extra bucks by using things like AdSense, Chitika or lots of other advertisers at no cost to you.
(Just make sure there are no competitors in your affiliate ads).
And don't forget to cross link your website and blog.
Good Luck,
Joe
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bigpip
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# Posted: 4 Apr 2006 14:04
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Quoting: agoodsaid 8. Hold auctions - Ebay gets TONS of traffic a day, while you're not allowed to post your site URL within your auction listings, you are allowed to put it in your "about me" page. So think about listing some of your products as auctions and advertise your URL.
I've heard good things about the "about me" page. Anyone doing this?
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WhitePhoenix
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# Posted: 7 Apr 2006 23:09
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I used to have that up, and it brought in a lot of feedback and dialog that isn't possible through the 'normal' route when buying or purchasing on eBay.
About Me pages also give you the opportunity to go into more detail about your products, your store, or something else you want to 'get out there'. I don't know how many times I've been on eBay just browsing and end up clicking into numbers of About Me pages to see more offerings and the stories behind them... great fun... and useful!
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WORKATHOMEWEALTH
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# Posted: 13 Apr 2006 13:44
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HI EVERYONE,
I AM TRYING TO PROMOTE MY WORK AT HOME WEBSITE AND I CANT FIGURE IT OUT. I WANT TO MAKE IT SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZED AND EVERY WHERE I GO SO FAR I JUST GET SHORT ANSWERS THAT DO ME NO GOOD... I DONT HAVE ALOT OF MONEY FOR PAY PER CLICK SEARCH ENGINES AND IF SOMEONE COULD HELP ME OUT IT WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED...
THANX
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WhitePhoenix
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# Posted: 13 Apr 2006 20:42
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I don't know about someone else, but I don't understand what you are wanting to do. To optimize your site for search engines, you need to zero in on words or phrases that apply to what it is you're trying to sell/market.
Those keywords need to match your Meta tag keywords.
Is this helpful and/or what you are seeking to do?
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Vishal P. Rao
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# Posted: 14 Apr 2006 01:13
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Get a copy of Make Your Site Sell! It's an amazing manual for beginners and it should keep you busy for a long time.
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ellenjharris
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# Posted: 16 Apr 2006 20:16
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I have not seen any place to get free ads. If anyone does find a place doing free ads, I would love to know.
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lickhau
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# Posted: 23 Sep 2006 16:01
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Great information man...
Besides, remember to add write articles and submit them into directories. Besides create your website with articles on it..
Good Luck
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kyfernung
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# Posted: 8 Feb 2007 17:36
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free advertising works, but it takes a lot of work from you. It is free to go to forums and such. Other then that, the best bet and a more successful approach is to pay for advertising
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woodridge
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# Posted: 9 Feb 2007 07:41
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After you write an article and it is published in an article directory, submit the URL, title and description of the same in digg.com, netscape.com, del.icio.us, reddit.com, etc.
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cherie27
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# Posted: 9 Apr 2008 03:20
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kyfernung: free advertising works, but it takes a lot of work from you.
I agree with you. Free advertising works, but it requires a lot of hard work from you. But it will stay there for a long time e.g you submit an article to a article directory and the article directory publish your article, it will stay as long as the article directory existed.
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# Posted: 9 Apr 2008 09:31
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Here are a few sites:
www.myfreesafelist.com
www.superadresponse.com
www.textadprofits.com
Becky
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BillyPilgrim
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# Posted: 9 Apr 2008 18:40
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I use article marketing for free advertising.
BP
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# Posted: 14 Apr 2008 12:54
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ellenjharris: I have not seen any place to get free ads. If anyone does find a place doing free ads, I would love to know.
USFreeAds.com
Hands down the best.
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# Posted: 15 Apr 2008 10:06
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Hi - I'm completely new to this forum, though have taken a look at one or two others. Have just been reading the thread here and I'm IMPRESSED!
Great information, well-written posts and - most of all - it seems like people are actually being NICE to each other. in some of the forums I've visited, it almost seemed as if there was a kind of oneupmanship going on (especially in posts that had anything at all to do with web coding - lol!)
So - a nice introduction to the forum and thanks everyone for the really good info above.
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# Posted: 15 Apr 2008 10:18
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I suggest US Free Ads.
If you upgrade to $9.99 per month:
unlimited ads
a mini site builder
unlimited images
you can add an opt-in.. and Google loves and owns it.
This is where I started, because you do not have to write so much..
Site Sell has another complimentary ebook Make Your Content Pre-Sell which is a must read...
Victoria
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# Posted: 15 Apr 2008 11:34
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Free Advertising definitely works if done properly. Artcle marketing is very powerful to get targeted traffic to your site. The article should not be a sales pitch, but rather give informative information using your specific keywords once in the title and a few times throughout the article. Then in the resource box, put your link and the code using your specific keywords. If done right, you'll end up on the first page of google within hours to days under those specific keywords. Finding powerful keywords when writing articles will make all the difference in the amount of traffic and if it's targeted.
Once done with your article, you can submit it to ezinearticles.com, goarticles.com and articlemarketer.com just to name a few that are good to use.
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# Posted: 21 Apr 2008 00:45
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If your just trying to promote a static website, You won't get anywhere that way. Selling Business Opportunities Is all about Promoting you not the Business. People join people not a company. Work on Yourself first and Your Business will Thrive.
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# Posted: 24 Apr 2008 11:30
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Free advertising is very tough. It is usually sites filled with people just posting ads and no one buying. The best way to get free advertising is by writing informative articles that arent sales pitches but that have value to the end reader. And then they might be tempted to going to your site. You need to offer someone expertise or leadership. Not just some cheap sales pitch. People are looking for leaders, if you are one and successful it resonates. Advertising on free sites is usually a sign of weakness and not something that people want to duplicate. So therefore you need to be creative. Good Luck.
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# Posted: 11 Jun 2008 07:09 · Edited by: barefootmentor
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Free Advertizing does work if you know the proper way to do it.  I host several live trainings weekly teaching online marketers how to be effective at free advertizing.
In many way's marketing online is similar to offline strategies, you just develop different skills. Here is the formula I use for online success:
Skills + Strategies + Testing + Fine Tuning Based on Results = Online Success
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# Posted: 11 Jun 2008 11:17
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This is a great post. Thanks for all the information, I am doing quite a few of these things and they are working for me. I have been looking for a few other avenues to market and get my site out there. Thanks again.
Ryan
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