Simple But Effective Web Promotion Ideas For Beginners

There are many webmasters out there who have practically no idea as to the best ways of promoting their website. Some of the main terms such as keywords, backward links, SEO and hyperlinks can seem like a foreign language to these types of website owners. This is where this article comes in; the article aims to give basic website promotion advice to help people to obtain a higher search engine ranking position and to therefore increase the amount of people that visit their site.

There are a lot of businessmen out there who are quite old school in their approach to marketing their business. They have had success in past years with various forms of advertising including the yellow pages, newspapers and via leaflets. The birth of the internet has changed the ways in which people search for different products but the majority of these businessmen find it difficult to move with the times. They are aware of the importance of an internet presence and many of them have paid thousands for a professional looking site. Marketing the site is a whole different ball game and this is where they can become lost, confused and frustrated.

So here are the basics of web promotion:

1. Ensure that the main keywords that people are likely to enter into the search box of the major search engines are included on the homepage of your website - this is essential.

2. Attempt to gain links on other sites within your industry, this could be achieved by asking your friends and contacts to do this or by offering to write content for your competitors websites

3. Write articles about your products and marketplace and submit them to the best article directories

4. Regularly update your website with fresh unique content.

5. Add your website on all of your literature including on business cards and on any e-mails you send.

These are just a few of the basics; I hope they prove to be of use.



Steve Hill is a webmaster from Birmingham, he has interests in a number of websites including:
stuttering
DVD authoring




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