“The Fifth Online Business Success Secret Is… – Promote! Promote! Promote!“

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One of the biggest mistakes that newbie affiliate marketers make is that they fail to PROMOTE their website enough to get the traffic they need to generate any sales volume. Quite often they will spend most of their time “tweaking” and “fiddling” with their website to make it look better. But that is a complete waste of time if your website gets no targeted traffic, i.e. no visitors who might want to buy what you are offering.

You need to be spending around 50%-80% of your productive time actively promoting your website and finding ways to get your web-pages in front of as many people as possible.

The truth is that a lot of people have NO CLUE how to do this, or they think that website promotion is an expensive business. So here’s a list of some of the key ways you can promote your website on a shoestring, or even for free…

1.Blogging: Search engines love fresh content, so posting regular updates on your and linking your comments back to one of your web pages is a great way to promote your website. Need a blog? I install & set up free wordpress blogs.

2. Article Marketing: Write and post articles on article directories with a link at the foot of the article pointing back to your website. Do this consistently (10 articles per month) and you will build thousands of links back to your website, and a stream of targeted traffic day after day. Click Here for my article marketing service.

3. Traffic Exchanges: Post your advertising pages and surf for credits which are used to show your pages to other traffic exchange members. Use the free resources of Traffic Exchange Toolbox to track and improve your results.

4. PPC Ads: Set a budget and start a “pay per click” ad campaign with a PPC Ad Service to deliver targeted traffic to your website.

5. Forum Marketing: Join Internet business related forums and contribute to the coversations to build a name for yourself. Also, each time you post a comment a link back to your website will be added in the footer.

6. Directory Submissions: This involves submitting your website URL and some basic information about your website to website directories. When a directory accepts your submission, your website information will be available on the website complete with a link back to your home page. Website directory submissions can be a laborious and time consuming job so it makes sense to save yourself the time and effort by using a Directory Submission Service .

These are just a few of the more popular and effective promotional techniques available to Internet marketers. It is a good idea to focus on one marketing method at a time and thoroughly master it before moving adding another technique to your marketing portfolio. These six techniques are the ones that you should focus on first.

When you start promoting your website you will want to know how effective your marketing methods are, which brings us to our sixth online business success secret…

Go to Online Business Success Secret #6