No-Budget Internet Marketing

Are you a mere beginner in the field of online marketing?  Do you lack the resources to to win the consideration of established JV partners?  lacking the finances required by pay per click campaigns?

No problem!

Allow me to share five free but powerful techniques you can use to advertise your business on the internet.

1.    Article marketing.  Create an article related to the subject matter of your online business.  Guarantee that this article shares something valuable.  Submit the article to the established article banks on the web, most importantly www.ezinearticles.com, www.goarticles.com and www.isnare.com.  Don't forget to attach a resource box, which should state something interesting about yourself or your business, as well as the link to your website.  accomplish this at least 3 times per week.  In a short period of time, you will receive direct traffic courtesy of the people you've won over with your articles, as well as indirect traffic courtesy of a higher search engine position achieved with thek help of the hundreds back links you are most definite to get per article.

2.    Exchanging links.  This is a matter of you scratching someone's back, and him returning the favor.  Other internet entrepreneurs are also looking for exposure for their ventures.  Partner up with them by guaranteeing to publish their link on your web pages if they will reciprocate your kind deed.

3.    Press release distribution.  Thousands of real world and virtual world publications are always on the lookout for noteworthy items to republish.  They read newswires for such pieces.  You can write a hype-free, noteworthy news item about your internet venture.  You may state the launch of your business, minus the hype, most definitely.  You may announce the launch of your web pages.  You may announce the launch of a new product, without the slightest tinge of a sales pitch.  Craft a press release, and submit the same to online newswires like www.prweb.com, and in a matter of hours, offline and virtual world publications will be picking it up, generating fantastic traffic to your website.

4.    Use and abuse the power of user-driven web tools.  The beauty of Web 2.0 websites is that the users themselves have the power to determine the course of particular online trends.  You can exploit this to your advantage by specifically targeting social news networks (Digg.com, Reddit.com, Propeller.com), social networking websites (MySpace.com,. FaceBook.com), and social bookmarking services (StumbleUpon.com) and transforming them into vital weaponry for your marketing campaigns.  truly, Web 2.0 websites are free to exploit over and over again.

5.    Search engine optimization.  Eight out of ten 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 optimize your web pages to garner the attention of those search engine spiders