January 17, 2008

Great Ways to Advertise For Free

If you have a small business or web site, in order to spread the word you probably need to advertise. Advertising your small business or web site can cost lots of money if you have a wide customer base or if you are just starting out. If you would like to get the word out on your small business, product, service or web site there are great ways to advertise for free. Here are some great suggestions.

There are a few ways to advertise for free, you can advertise your product, service or web site on free forums, blog sites or free marketplaces. Another great idea is to join a banner exchange and allow your banner advertisement to be posted on other web sites while you post banners of other merchants on your web site.

If you have something of value to give away, you can include your link and business bio to visitors and web sites that download your product or use your product for their use. Articles are very popular, you can write a few articles and give them away to other web sites via article distribution sites. These articles can be posted to other sites as long as they leave your link and author information in tact. These articles can draw lots of attention not only from other web site visitors but also from search engines that may rank your web site higher. If you have a small business and a small budget, look into these great ways to advertise for free.