Market your business using practical small business internet marketing tips and tricks

Got a website but no traffic?  Is your small business internet marketing ineffective?  Consider these small business internet marketing tips and tricks to help drive traffic to your website:

• Get an automated eCommerce system - These can be really good, very comprehensive and very inexpensive. The good ones can do everything from customer base management to product management to shopping cart to newsletter broadcasts. 
• Get a cheap and reliable merchant account provider - You can get merchant account providers that do both the merchant account and internet gateway for you.  Hint: your bank is probably more expensive than the discount providers out there.
• Put a link back to your website in your email autosignature - This doesn't need to be obnoxious, just a simple link that email recipients can click on to see your website.
• Do selective link trading - Link trade, but make sure the content on the other website is similar to your own.  Don't touch "link farms" with a ten-foot pole; search engines hate them.
• Write articles and include your website address - There are a number of article databases out there.  Find some article databases which house content similar to yours and write a few articles.  You'd be amazed at where your articles show up!
• Write newsletters - Allow for customers and visitors to subscribe to a newsletter to get regular visibility to you and your company.
• Consider using a search engine submission services - These services submit your site to multiple search engines & directories.  Can be helpful particularly if your website is new.
• Set up an affiliates program - Allow for others to promote your products on a commission basis.  Again a good eCommerce system should already have this built in.
• Download the Google Toolbar - The Google Toolbar has a nifty feature which shows you the page rank (0-10 scale) of every site you visit.  The higher your page ranking the higher your placement in search engines.
• Set up multiple websites - Got three services you perform?  Set up three different websites with domain names that match your keywords.  Super cheap to do and can be very effective.
• Consider setting up a Google AdWords account - You pay on a cost-per-click (CPC) basis to get your website advertised.  Can be effective but also can get very expensive.