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If You Have a Blog / Website, How Can You Promote It

So, you have got a blog / website now and you start worrying on how you need to get your blog / website noticed. Most of the methods require you to spend at least a couple of bucks. You don't like to pay, do you? I don't like to pay too. I'm a freebie supporter.

Are free methods reliable? Or will you fork out your money for the sake of promoting your blog / website?

Of course free methods are feasible and reliable. Nowadays, your blog / website can amass huge traffic in no timethanks to free website promotion.

How does this free website promotion go anyway? What are the things to be done?

1) Enlist your website in best free directory

Look for the hottest Internet directories and enlist your site there. Yahoo! is one of the best directories available to date. It might not be as popular as Google, but worth a try. This is the easiest and most effective free website promotion tactic. Start with this step and the rest of the good things will follow. This is the link to submit your site to Yahoo! Directory http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit If you do follow what I recommend, you will notice that it's actually free, easy and fast to submit your site to Yahoo!. There are a lot of other directories out there on the Internet. Search for it.

2) Know more people via forums

One reason why forums are created is for free website promotion for everyone. Log in, post actively, let them know about your site in every post and you attract instant visitors right there. How to let them know about your site in every post? Please DON'T ever spam the forums with just your website and no knowledgeable information posted. The forum administrator is going to ban you if you do so. You can put your website url in your forum signature below each post. Be reminded to read the rules of each forum as they vary.

3) Write a press release

Release your writing prowess and start up a press release that advertises your site! This is a free website promotion tactic that you can do anytime. Type a brief paragraph or two and email it to your friends, colleagues, Internet e-zines, newspapers and other media and massive traffic will come to you. There is also free press release submission site that is specially catered for you to submit online press releases. Cool, ain't it? The world of freebies :) Every successful company will have its press releases submitted frequently.

4) Expand your blogrolls

Free website promotion means you need to be friendly to other webmasters or website owners. Why is that so? So they can link you immediately! Establish contacts and never feel shy to ask for link exchanges. Some people most likely won't want to have link exchange with you but that's alright. You proceed to ask other blog or website owners. Try asking me, I don't mind exchanging my links with you. ;)

5) Write an article

Say, your website is about your travel agency. Write an article about the perks of traveling or the hottest travel spots in the world. You can write about tips of traveling overseas or even have an online currency converter for each country. In the concluding paragraph, mention your website in passing. This article works as an advertorial and doubles as a free website promotion approach.

6) Let the whole world know about your site

What is free website promotion without the word of mouth? Insert your website, its URL and features in daily conversations and let the good news spread from one mouth to another! Make more new friends and talk to them about your websites, indirectly. I'm not asking you to perform a hard-sell of your websites to your new friends okay? :)

7) Make a banner ad

Make a banner ad for your site and ask another webmaster to do the same for his site. Then swap! If you have no idea what banner ad is – it's actually an animated banner that conveys a message to your site viewers. You must be wondering if you need to hire a designer to do the banner for you. Well, since I'm discussing about FREE website promotion today, my answer is “No”. You can actually search for a free online tool to create the banner all by yourselves. No doubt, the result might not be as good as the one made by website designers, but, hey, it's Free!

8) Enroll for a free website promotion course online

Yes, there are free website promotion tutorials. But you can actually take a free website promotion course that can help you out further. Part of the free website promotion program is signing up for newsletters. Subscribe to the newsletters and make sure you follow. Don't subscribe for fun.

9) Let's Tweet and Facebook!

Twitter and Facebook are both the talk of the town! You ought to know what are they and how they can help you disseminate information massively. Both have millions of users and followers. Imagine the traffic it can help drive in for your website. And the best part is, signing up as members is always FREE!

Go to twitter.com and facebook.com and click on “Sign Up” now. It's never too late to get on the bandwagon of social medias :)

Do take note that not all methods suggested here will fit perfectly well to the nature of your business. But I believe most of them will be able to help promote your websites as long as you put effort in doing it.

作者：Starsearcher

词汇学习:

1. get your website noticed 使你的网站得到注意
2. a couple of bucks （比喻式）几块钱
3. freebie 免费物
4. reliable 可靠的
5. fork out 不情愿地支付
6. for the sake of 为了
7. feasible 可行的
8. amass 聚集
9. in no time 立即
10. enlist （多义词）把。。编列成表；使入伍；谋取。。的赞助
11. to date 至今
12. worth a try 值得一试
13. tactic 策略；手法
14. instant 立即的
15. knowledgeable 有知识的
16. vary （动词）不一
17. press release 新闻稿
18. prowess 高超的本领
19. tactic 策略
20. massive 大量的，巨大的
21. cater 迎合
22. blogrolls 部落格的列表
23. webmaster 网站管理员
24. establish contacts 建立联系
25. exchanges 交换
26. perk 好处
27. currency converter 外汇转换器
28. in passing 顺便
29. advertorial 社论式广告
30. approach 方法；态度
31. word of mouth 口耳相传
32. feature （多义词）特色
33. ad = advertisement
34. swap 交换
35. talk of the town （比喻式）城里最热的话题
36. ought to 应该
37. disseminate 散播；宣传
38. massively 大量地
39. get on the bandwagon 抓紧机会涉足流行的事务，以获利或成功
40. nature （多义词）性质