If you are cash strapped there are still good ways you can promote your website. Let’s take a look at some online marketing strategies that definitely do work and take little or no money to implement. 1. Article marketing. This is one of the top online marketing strategies. Here you will write articles, include your website url in the resource box, and submit these articles to online article directories. One strategy is to promote your articles to one specific directory. If you do this you want to promote to the largest directories such as Ezine Articles or Articlesbase. Another strategy is to create unique versions of one article and promote it to multiple article directories. You can find the largest article directories on the internet by searching on Google. One other strategy is to use a service such as Submit Your Article to create unique versions of your articles. Then submit those with one click to multiple article directories. 2. Blogging. You can start a blog for free at Blogger. A better strategy is to host your own blog which will cost you less than $10 a month. The good thing is you can host multiple blogs after that and it won't cost you any more. Whenever you post a blog article you should social bookmark it using a free service such as Only Wire. 3. Email marketing. You can build an email list of your own using some of the above strategies. An auto responder will cost less than $20 a month. One way to do that is to send all of your traffic to a landing page for people to subscribe to a newsletter you promote. It is not difficult to build a large email list if you offer useful information that people are looking for. As your list grows you can sell products to it. A way to sell products without spending any money is to become an affiliate for that merchants program. 4. Social networking. Facebook is huge. They are now the second largest website in the world behind Google. A great source of social website marketing is Twitter. LinkedIn is a social network for professionals. All of these are potentially good ways to market your website and it doesn't cost you anything. We have discussed a few highly effective online marketing strategies that cost nothing or very little to implement. The fact that you can make up for your shortage of money by investing your time is one of the main advantages of internet marketing. About the Author: Cynthia Minnaar, the owner of cyns-home-biz.com, works full-time from home online running her own online business ideas website. She invites you to visit her site where she will share more effective online marketing strategies with you.
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