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Free Web Site Promotion Secrets

When starting a home based internet business there are many strategies that one can use that will enable you to use free web site promotion to drive traffic to your web site. Like most people chances are that you starting an internet business because you would like to earn extra money and you do not have that much money to get going. So you may not want to pay for advertising.

I am going to look at the basic ways that one should invest in to create free web site traffic that will help your business to succeed online.

The very first step is to get your web site listed in the main directories on the internet. These are like Yahoo and the Open Directory. The main reason for this is that these will give you some immediate traffic and also help you to get good search engine rankings quickly. The way that Google works these days is that they usually put new websites into a sandbox and it can take anywhere from four months to a year to get released from that. The main reason that they have done this is to prevent people from spamming their search index. By getting listed in these directories Google will trust your website quickly as links from these websites are seen as high quality links. So they will contribute to getting your website released from the sandbox earlier.

You need to gain reciprocal links from other websites that are not competing with you in your niche. Do not overdo it, but roughly about thirty links will help to boost your rankings substantially.

Post regularly on forums related to your niche. Do not blatantly advertise as this will make you lose your reputation. Answer people's forum posts so that you build credibility and leave your signature with a link to your website.

Finally, my favourite method of traffic generation is article marketing. You do this by writing articles related to your topic and submitting them to the major article directories.