No-Budget Internet Marketing

Are you a novice in the world of internet business?  Are you deprived of the resources to stand a chance in striking a deal established JV partners?  lacking the budget required by PPC campaigns?

No problem!

Allow me to share five free but highly effective techniques you can use to market your business in the World Wide Web.

1.    Marketing with articles.  Come up with an article relevant to the niche of your online business.  Make sure that this article conveys something valuable.  Enroll the article to the established article directories in the World Wide Web, most importantly www.ezinearticles.com, www.goarticles.com and www.isnare.com.  Include a resource box, which should state something interesting about yourself or your venture, as well as the URL of your website.  accomplish this at least 3 times per week.  In due time, you will get direct traffic consisting of the people whose interest you've garnered because of your articles, as well as indirect traffic as a result of a higher search engine position gained via the countless back links you are sure to win per article.

2.    Exchanging links.  This is much akin to you scratching a partner's back, and him scratching yours.  Other internet businessmen are likewise looking for exposure for their ventures.  hook up with them by guaranteeing to place their link on your web pages if they will do the same.

3.    Press release distribution.  Countless offline and virtual world publications are always on the lookout for interesting items to use.  They read newswires for such works.  You can write an objective, newswortht news item about your online business.  You may state the launch of your business, minus the hype, of course.  You may announce the upload of your website.  You may announce the launch of a new commodity, without any form of a sales pitch.  Prepare a press release, and distribute the same to online newswires like www.prweb.com, and in just a few hours, offline and virtual world publications will be picking it up, generating fantastic traffic to your URL.

4.    Exploit the power of user-driven websites.  The beauty of Web 2.0 websites is that the online denizens themselves are empowered to dictate what's hot and what's not.  As a savvy online marketer, you can exploit this to your benefit by particularly targeting social news networks (Digg.com, Reddit.com, Propeller.com), social networking websites (MySpace.com,. FaceBook.com), and social bookmarking services (StumbleUpon.com) and making them a part of your marketing campaigns.  Indeed, Web 2.0 websites are free to exploit over and over again.

5.    SEO.  8 out of 10 visitors that you will be able to generate for your website will come from the search engines.  And search engine traffic is free, if you can create your web pages to attract the attention of those search engine spiders