8 Surefire Ways To Advertise Your Web Site For Free

You want your website to be visible to as many people as possible. But, you don't have a lot of money to spend on advertising. That's where SEO comes in handy. With this free method you can advertise your website for free and still enjoy an improved ranking in the search engine results pages (SERPs) like Google, Bing and Yahoo!

Here are 8 surefire ways you can advertise your web site for free: 

1. Make backlinks on other sites - Linking back to a page on another site is one of the most effective ways of getting visitors there from yours. 

2. Banner Advertising - You can post a banner ad on other sites. Or you can buy advertising space on other sites, if you have the money. 

3. Start a blog - Use your website as the basis for a blog that you post on other sites regularly with new and interesting material. This will bring in traffic to both your site and theirs. 

4. Put Adsense ads on your site - Adsense is Google's hugely successful advertising program that supplies text ads to publishers' web pages based upon the content of their site. You don't even have to be a blogger to use it, so if you've got enough content it's worth putting Adsense on your website as well as using the services discussed next. 

5. Get into social media - If you're not already involved in social media websites like Twitter, Facebook and MySpace then now is the time to start. Fill your site with links to these sites so that other people can easily find your site. 

6. Use Google AdWords - This free online ad company allows you to buy ad space at different price levels and is a good way of getting traffic from Google. 

7. Blog, blog, blog - Write a couple of articles a week about new services or products and post them on other sites for free (although you'll still have to pay for the privilege of posting on existing sites). Make sure that they're interesting but don't use too much filler material.