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Four Ways To Take Full Advantage Of Free Website Promotion.

A few years back a number of experts were predicting the end of free website promotion. The thinking went since the major conglomerates were starting to utilize the internet more and more it would eventually drive up the price on just about every aspect of online business including advertising. This would put a lot of pressure on small and home based online businesses that had benefited from the early days of website promotion when costs were free or very affordable and competition was not as widespread.

The good news is free website promotion never went anywhere. It has continued to grow and evolve just like the internet. Maybe the boom years of website promotion don’t exist anymore due to the number of websites online but in some ways its better than before. Constant growth means more people online to view your information or product.

Here are a few tips to getting the most out of free website promotion:

1. The Directories
This could be the easiest way to generate free website promotion. Just create a profile of your website including a good description along with the right targeted keywords and begin submitting your site to the many online web directories. This as you may have gathered will not generate traffic to your site overnight. However over time it will lay the groundwork for more backlinks to your site which can greatly improve your website’s search engine ranking and link popularity. Start out by submitting your site to at least five directories per day.

2. The Forums
It’s almost as if forums were built for free website promotion. Just register with the forum of your choosing create a signature file also known as a resource box and start advertising. One important element to remember: To make forum advertising truly work you must become an active participant in that community. Do not just post your latest product or service. Instead make a deliberate and constant effort to provide good information opinion and discussion to the forum. Once people in the forum become more familiar with you your website promotion becomes easier.

3. Courtesy
This applies not only to the forums but anywhere else you do business online. No doubt you’ve witnessed how aggressive and insulting people can be in cyberspace. There is something about posting anonymously or at least from an “undisclosed” location that brings out the antagonism in some people. A little bit of politeness and respect can greatly assist you in establishing contacts with other webmasters. This will make them more open to exchanging links with you. They may also check out your website and promote your product or service to their readers and subscribers without requesting anything in return. That’s the power of common courtesy.

4. Video
About three years ago internet marketing pioneer and businessman Kevin McCarthy predicted that video would transform the internet. Today we are looking at the dawning of the video online revolution. What this means is free website promotion has gone to the next level. Just use a web cam or any other recording equipment to make your video and then easily upload it to the hundreds and growing of video sharing sites like of course YouTube and BlipTV. Video can place your website promotion in front of new customers who normally would not be interested in your product or service.

The internet continues to grow and change rapidly. The predicted collapse of small businesses online due to the demise of free website promotion never happened. Instead not only are the free tools that were available still around and very effective but new website promotion tools have been added. Take advantage of the directories video forums and just good old fashion common courtesy to boost your free website promotion campaigns

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MySpace Versus Facebook…A Look At Two Giants In The Online Social Media Arena

MySpace is a popular social networking website offering an interactive user submitted network of friends personal profiles blogs groups photos music and videos for people worldwide. MySpace has been one of the most wildly successful sites in recent years amassing over 120 million profiles while transforming social networking online.

It has created a central community comprised of people across the globe. It is one of the most visited sites in the world and it’s introducing a huge number of people to content syndication through news feeds and it allows millions of people around the world to publish on the web for the first time.

MySpace is also used by people to display their talents and it’s about keeping in touch with friends and making new friends. It’s all about interactivity and the ability of people to participate actively in your MySpace community.

It is an amazing community building tool and is starting to become an amazing marketing tool by giving internet marketers the power to drive large numbers of potential clients to a Website. MySpace allows users to customize their user profile pages by entering HTML no Java script into such areas as “About Me” “I’d Like to Meet” and “Interests.”

It has a Groups feature which allows a group of users to share a common page and message board. MySpaceTV is now in beta mode and will probably be launched as a separate site in either 2008 or early 2009. The MySpace Polls is a feature that was brought back in 2008 to enable users to post polls on their profile and share them with other users.

MySpace is the world’s largest Social Networking website and maintains a dominant position as a media site primarily aimed at youth giving them the opportunity to express their feelings on a variety of topics.

Facebook on the other hand has the largest number of registered users among collegefocused networking sites according to Wikipedia. Facebook’s culture appearance and principles have become the envy of the social networking business. It has moved in exactly the opposite direction from MySpace going for a more sophisticated and increasingly older audience.

Social media online is extending our real world networks so that we can carry on conversations internationally as well as locally. Facebook is a tool to keep in touch with friends and family around the globe and is the most popular social networking site in several Englishspeaking countries including Canada and the United Kingdom.

Facebook is often compared to MySpace but there is one significant difference between the two sites and this is the visual appearance. Facebook is cleanly designed and has a sophisticated upscale sense about it.

Facebook is a private company and doesn’t disclose sales figures but the Financial Times reported it made 150 million dollars worth of sales last year. Facebook is already supporting several languages and they successfully launched their Spanish speaking version recently.

Statistically speaking as of January 2008 according to TechRadar Facebook has more than 60 million active users worldwide compared with MySpace’s over 120 million. On average 300000 new registrant’s sign up to MySpace everyday versus Facebook’s 250000. For Facebook the fastest growing demographic are those 25 years old and older while 85 of MySpace users are of voting age 18 or older.

No matter how you slice it these are two very successful and very influential players in the Social Media online arena today and should be for a very long time to come. And there is no telling how big a resource they can become for Internet Marketers worldwide.

About the writer:nbsp;nbsp;Bob Withers is a professional sales and marketing person with over twenty years in the field. He has also turned his sights on network marketing to apply his trade. If you want to get in touch with Bob or learn more about sales and marketing please visit:Free Sales and Marketing Advice

Your Entire Internet Business And Traffic Generation Success Starts From One Shocking Point – Part 2

Make sure you check out part 1 that will show you why content is the starting point of your internet business success…

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I have discussed in part 1 that content is the secret point of your internet business and traffic generation success.

In this article you will learn how content can drive thousands of visitors to your website ready to buy your products and services.

Here’s the reason why content is the starting point of your websites traffic generation success.

You will need content to create a killer theme based content site. Visitors love to visit websites that provide quality content.

They keep visiting content rich websites and blogs to get quality information on a topic of their interest. This helps to generate repeat traffic to your website.

Search engines love theme based unique quality content. They frequently spider and give high ranking to websites that provides unique content on regular basis.

Google provides high page rank to websites that provides unique quality content. Website owners love to link and recommend websites to their visitors that provides specialized information in a particular niche.

Content in the form of articles are in high demand by website owners and ezine publishers. If you write articles and spread them in article directories they get picked up by website owners and ezine publishers thus giving you incoming links to your website.

Incoming links helps to increase search engine ranking and you receive tons of free quality traffic from your articles itself.

You require content to create newsletter issues that you send your subscribers on weekly basis. This generates repeat traffic by attracting your subscribers to your website frequently.

You require quality information to make posts in discussion forums and answer to members questions out there. If you do this you are allowed to place a signature with your ad. This helps to generate free traffic.

Content on your website helps to generate traffic to your salesletters with the help of anchor links in your articles.

Content helps you to create follow up emails ecourses reports miniebooks etc that are powerful viral marketing tools that helps to generate long term traffic to your website.

These are some of the many ways content helps you to generate traffic to your website.

I am sure you agree that content is the king and a powerful magnet that attracts quality website traffic consistently and permanently.

Check out part 3 where I will give you simple tricks that will help you to generate content quickly and easily…

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Check out part 4 to learn a secret tactic that you can use starting today to write a quality article in less than 30 minutes…

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Check out part 5 to learn a simple 5 block formula I personally use to promote my articles consistently to attract storms of lazer targeted website traffic…

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Check out part 6 where I will show you how you can expand your internet business using this newly created content in 5 crazy steps.

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