What are some effective free and paid promotion techniques for Web sites?
There are many, many ideas and methods in use out there. There are also many different ways to use those ideas and methods. But the main, most basic free ways to promote your site are to: • Optimize your site for the search engines, and work to achieve a good listing. • Trade links with other sites on a similar topic. • Win some awards. There are a number of large Web sites out there that give out “best of the web awards” that can bring in traffic. There are a many other free promotion ideas, but it would take up too much space to talk about them all here. Instead I recommend that you read my in depth promotion tutorial. If you want more heavy hitting, faster results promotion, you may have to fork over some money. These are some of the most effective ideas: • Buy some banner advertising. You can get your banner seen by hundreds of people! • Purchase advertising in email based newsletters. You can get some great deals using this advertising method! • Start an affiliate program. This is
