Free To Low Cost Online Marketing Strategies

Jun 11
07:24

2011

Cynthia Minnaar

Cynthia Minnaar

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If you are short of money there are still some great ways that you can promote your website. In this article I want to offer some free or almost free online marketing strategies that do work very well.

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If you are cash strapped there are still good ways you can promote your website. Let’s take a look at some online marketing strategies that definitely do work and take little or no money to implement.

1. Article marketing. Using articles to promote a website is one of the best online marketing strategies. Here you will write articles,Free To Low Cost Online Marketing Strategies Articles include your website url in the resource box, and submit these articles to online article directories.

One strategy is to promote your articles to one specific directory. If you use this strategy then you will want to submit your articles to the biggest directories such as Articlesbase and Ezine Articles.

Creating unique versions of an article and submitting it to a number of article directories is an alternative strategy you could use. You can do a Google search to find the 10 largest article directories online.

One other strategy is to use a service such as Submit Your Article to create unique versions of your articles. Then submit those with one click to multiple article directories.

2. Blogging. At Blogger you can start your own blog at no cost at all. So that you have full control of your blog, hosting your own is a far better strategy and it costs under $10 per month.

A great advantage of this is that you can host a number of blogs after that without having to pay a cent more. After posting a blog article use a free booking service such as Only Wire to social bookmark it.

3. Email marketing. You can build an email list of your own using some of the above strategies. An auto responder will cost less than $20 a month.

Directing your traffic to a landing page where people can sign up for your newsletter is one way of doing that. It is not difficult to build a large email list if you offer useful information that people are looking for.

Once your list begins to gather subscribers you can then sell products to them. A way to sell products without spending any money is to become an affiliate for that merchants program.

4. Social networking. Facebook is huge. It has been stated that they are the second biggest website on the internet now.

A great source of social website marketing is Twitter. LinkedIn is a social network for professionals. All of these are potentially good ways to market your website and it doesn't cost you anything.

We have discussed a few highly effective online marketing strategies that cost nothing or very little to implement. One of the great advantages that Internet marketing offers is you can make up for the lack of money by investing some of your time.