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I get asked the question, “How can I advertise my website for free?” almost daily. Luckily, in today’s web 2.0 world, that’s a lot easier than it use to be.

It seems that while there are billions of dollars being spent online each year in advertising there are also more and more ways to get a tremendous amount of advertising for free. In creating advertising campaigns for people each week , one of the things that I focus on is maximizing their advertising budget by utilizing free and low cost advertising. Lately, there has been a pretty big shift in the effectiveness of free vs. paid advertising.

Free is winning out.

To me it’s all about the game. Where can I get the same amount of traffic, or better, for a client’s website without paying for it? How can I best get brand recognition for a new website without spending any more ad dollars on it? How will I get the message out to the masses for free? It can almost seem like you’re shouting into a megaphone on a hilly meadow and nobody hears you.

That’s not the case today though. You can now successfully advertise your website, whether old or new, to a very large, and mostly targeted, audience. This is good news for people who are spending way too much on elaborate pay per click campaigns.

The question is where. Where can you advertise your website for free?

Ten Powerful Ways To Advertise Your Website for Free

1. Write and Submit Articles

Article marketing has been a very big provider of free traffic for me, and my clients, for a long time now. In fact, I still receive a little traffic from articles I’ve written six years ago. There are thousands of article directories online (just google ‘article directory’) and most of the time you just complete a simple sign up and start submitting. Some directories have pretty elaborate sign ups, but for the majority it’s easy.

The hardest part is, of course, the writing of the articles. There are a lot of article writing tips also available online to help you through this process. Or you could always hire someone to write the articles for you.

2. Start a Blog

One of the first things I’ve been telling my clients to do is to start a blog. And not just one. But, if you can to start several blogs on the free hosted blogs at Blogger.com and Wordpress.org.

What start a blog? It’s almost like having your own article directory that you post your own articles on. The best thing about it is that they are indexed in the search engines rather quickly. Especially on the Google owned Blogger.com.

3. Leave comments on other blogs I have to admit that I didn’t jump on this bandwagon until the last six months or so. I just didn’t see the use of spending more time rummaging through other blogs thinking up witty, useful comments. I’ve since changed my mind when I left a comment on a blog, ClickNewz.com I believe, and saw a sharp spike in traffic.

I must make a strong note though. Have something useful to say. Don’t just leave something like “Great post!” and leave.

4. Participate in Forums Again, I have to admit that I was a long time in coming around to the whole forum participation thing. For me the biggest drawback was time. I just didn’t have the time to ‘lurk’ around several different forums waiting for a chance to jump into the conversation. And just like leaving comments on blogs, once I started, I changed my mind.

I now make time each week for promoting my websites as the traffic generated is well worth it.

5. Spend time working on Search Engine Optimization

A major source of traffic to your website is the search engines. Google, MSN, Yahoo, Ask.com… they all contribute a great deal of free traffic on an ongoing basis. However, it does a little work to make sure your webpages are ranking high enough to get noticed. To do that you have to spend time working on each page until they are where you need them. And then follow up as the rankings change constantly. A great resource for this is a free ebook by Dan Thies called SEO Fast Start.

6. Tweet using Twitter

I really like Twitter. It’s an amazing social marketing tool that lets you say what you’re doing to the people who are following you. Kind of like subscribers to your email newsletter. The kick is that you only have 140 characters to do it. The beauty of it is in the immense usefulness of it.

With Twitter you must have a balance of what you’re tweeting. What I mean is you don’t just use it as a means to drive traffic by posting your URL all the time. It helps if you actually do let people know what it is you’re doing. Going to Starbucks… tweet it. Mowing your lawn… tweet it. Writing a new blog post… tweet it. Traveling to LA… tweet it. Landed a new client… tweet it. Get the idea??

7. Participate in Social Media Websites

By these I mean the two big ones Facebook and MySpace. There are others, but these are the two main ones where you’re more likely to meet more people. I was very skeptical of these types of websites as I only thought they were for teenagers and middle aged men looking to hook up. I took the chance of creating a Facebook profile and have met some great people, found new clients, and forming strong partnerships.

8. Write a Guest Post

Once you get the hang of blogging you can then move to writing guest posts on another compatible blog. I wouldn’t help you at all to write a post on the benefits of protein powder if your website deals with car batteries. But, if you wrote a post on fly fishing in Maine and had the opportunity to post it on a fishing blog, outdoors blog, travel blog, etc… you would gain in both traffic and in your own personal brand.

There are a few rules to how to be a guest blogger. For instance you don’t just send in blog posts to someone like they are your own personal article directory. You wait for an opportunity to submit one.

9. Do some Digging and Stumbling

Free traffic today is a process. Part of that process is helping others get free traffic. Websites like Digg.com and StumbleUpon.com are places where you get to rank other websites and leave comments as to why you do like, or don’t like, them. The key to success with sites like these is to Digg or Stumble other sites.

Once you begin to make friends on these sites (it all revolves around people you know…) and digg, or stumble, their sites they begin to do the same for you. If your blog post, article, or webiste can make it to the front page of these sites your traffic soars. In order to do this you must make sure you have great content that others will want to recommend.

10. Participate in Webinars and Teleconferences

I am beginning to love Webinars. They are great little “mini seminars” that are on the web. Most of the time you are on a conference call, but can participate through chat on a website. I have been making time in my schedule to attend at least one a week. By doing so I get to interact with others, leave comments in the chat, and providing commentary that adds to the conversation.

Free online traffic requires work and time, but is worth it

As you can see it takes a lot of time and effort in building and maintaining free traffic to your site. You can begin to feel overwhelmed and it can begin to get a little chaotic. One of the things that can help you immensely is by having a plan in place that you follow each week. A great help in this is a free report by Michelle MacPhearson on Web 2.0.

Free traffic is a lot of work. It does require time. But the rewards are very much worth the time as you are not only building traffic, and saving money, but are also building your brand. This is invaluable and priceless to your online business.

Source: Advertising

Every affiliate marketer is always looking for the successful market that gives the biggest paycheck. Sometimes they think it is a magic formula that is readily available for them. Actually, it is more complicated than that. It is just good marketing practices that have been proven over years of hard work and dedication.

There are tactics that have worked before with online marketing and is continuing to work in the online affiliate marketing world of today. With these top three marketing tips, you will be able to able to increase your sales and survive in the affiliate marketing online.

What are these three tactics?

1. Using unique web pages to promote each separate product you are marketing. Do not lump all of it together just to save some money on web hosting. It is best to have a site focusing on each and every product and nothing more.

Always include product reviews on the website so visitors will have an initial understanding on what the product can do to those who buys them. Also include testimonials from users who have already tried the product. Be sure that these customers are more than willing to allow you to use their names and photos on the site of the specific product you are marketing.

You can also write articles highlighting the uses of the product and include them on the website as an additional page. Make the pages attractive compelling and include calls to act on the information. Each headline should attract the readers to try and read more, even contact you. Highlight your special points. This will help your readers to learn what the page is about and will want to find out more.

2. Offer free reports to your readers. If possible position them at the very top side of your page so it they simply cannot be missed. Try to create autoresponder messages that will be mailed to those who input their personal information into your sign up box. According to research, a sale is closed usually on the seventh contact with a prospect.

Only two things can possibly happen with the web page alone: closed sale or the prospect leaving the page and never return again. By placing useful information into their inboxes at certain specified period, you will remind them of the product they thought they want later and will find out that the sale is closed. Be sure that the content is directed toward specific reasons to buy the product. Do not make it sound like a sales pitch.

Focus on important points like how your product can make life and things easier and more enjoyable. Include compelling subject lines in the email. As much as possible, avoid using the word ?free? because there are still older spam filters that dumps those kind of contents into the junk before even anyone reading them first. Convince those who signed up for your free reports that they will be missing something big if they do not avail of your products and services.

3. Get the kind of traffic that is targeted to your product. Just think, if the person who visited your website has no interest whatsoever in what you are offering, they will be among those who move on and never come back. Write articles for publication in e-zines and e-reports. This way you can locate publications that is focusing on your target customers and what you have put up might just grab their interest.

Try to write a minimum of 2 articles per week, with at least 300-600 words in length. By continuously writing and maintaining these articles you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers to your site in a day.

Always remember that only 1 out of 100 people are likely to buy your product or get your services. If you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day, that means you can made 10 sales based on the average statistic.

The tactics given above does not really sound very difficult to do, if you think about it. It just requires a little time and an action plan on your part.

Try to use these tips for several affiliate marketing programs. You can end maintaining a good source of income and surviving in this business that not all marketers can do.

Besides, think of the huge paychecks you will be receiving?

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What Is Clickbank?

Clickbank is arguably one of the internet’s premier marketplaces for buyers, sellers, and affiliates. Affiliate marketing is undoubtedly one of the most popular branches of internet marketing. With affiliate marketing, anyone can promote a product and earn money – a set commission – for every sale they make.

To succeed as an affiliate, you must choose a niche and focus on promoting to your target market. In  addition, you must know and stand behind the product you are promoting, and you must implement an aggressive advertising plan, in an effort to drive more traffic to your Web site and to increase sales.

How To Choose The Right Product?

Becoming a member of Clickbank is easy, but becoming a successful affiliate marketer requires. in-depth knowledge about internet marketing, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), link exchange, and back links. Knowing how to properly market the products you’re promoting is key to ensuring your success as an affiliate marketer.

Once you’ve created an affiliate ID at Clickbank, the next thing you want to do to is to select the product that you want to promote. Rather than choosing the product that pays the highest commission (which will already likely have plenty of people promoting it), opt for a product in a niche with which you are familiar.

Another important point to be considered as a part of affiliate marketing and while choosing the best Clickbank products to promote is to always stay updated with latest trends and the changes happening in the market. Furthermore, the product you choose should have some sort of demand for it.

The commission rate is also an important factor that should be considered when choosing products to promote on Clickbank. Any product that has sales below $19 is not recommended, nor are those products that offer a commission of less than 50 percent.

When choosing a product, remember to keep these factors in mind:

1. Choose a product in a niche with which you are extremely familiar (and make sure you appraise the product before you begin promoting it).

2. Opt for a product that offers a commission of 50 percent or higher, but don’t choose a product that has such a high commission that thousands of other people have signed on as affiliates.

3. Choose a product with sales of more than $19.

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I have not promoted this blog as much as I should have, as I stated earlier in a post. I am very surprised on my page rank yesterday! I am glad about it, and I will be promoting this site a lot more from now on, I do have a plan of action, and I will be following down to a “T”! Anything you plan on being a success at, you must have a plan, affiliate marketing, becoming a rock star, movie star or Chef, just follow a well laid out plan,plans do change and make the best of it!

I have not really promoted this blog, I just really got a PR of 1 today, and imagine my surprise when I checked to see on a whim what my blog might be worth!

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