May 9, 2012. Paul Hixon
credit: Arturo de AlbornozWant to find success with your online business but don’t have the money to buy ad space or buy traffic? There are ways you can increase your online presence without spending a dime. Why would you want to spend a lot of money when you have a perfectly good brain that can do legitimate work to advertise your business for free online? It is really simpler than you think. Advertising is all about getting people’s attention. Here are some simple and free ways you can get the attention of people who are already interested in the things that your business is offering. All it takes is hard work and a little imagination to get started. Here are some thoughts that should get you on the right track.
Write articles for article directories
Here’s an idea that doesn’t take any customer service phone skills to do. Unlike many guerilla marketing Techniques, you don’t need to be good at talking with people or communicating with customers to write articles. You don’t need to be an experienced writer. All you need is the ability to research, glean facts, and write unique articles based on those facts. The purpose, of course, is to leave links in those articles to point back to your original blog or website. These links do two things. One, they will attract traffic to your main website if your article is well written. Two, these back links increase the strength of your website page rank.
Trade links with other websites
Here’s another way you can increase your page rank in the search engines. Find a website that offers similar things to you and work together. Ask the owner of the site to host a link in his blog roll to your site and you will do the same for him or her. This kind of blog roll exchange can get you as many as one thousand links in one go. These links will help you get traffic from that person’s website as well as a better page rank.
Updated May 9, 2012. Published April 11, 2011. Paul Hixon
