Free Places to Start Promoting Your Website Online
As a small business owners, you have most likely spent the majority of your website budget on creating the site, but you have little to less money to spend more on promoting your website. Promoting your website doesn't have to be costly, in fact below are some great ways to promote your website and business for free.
So here is the list:
1. Submit your URL through Search Engine
As you may know, search engines are the primary platform used by people all over the world to find the information they need on the internet. Since most of the internet traffic goes through search engines, being ranked highly by search engines will send you a huge number of prospective customers. With that said, search engines should be the first place that you turn to promote your online presence. Make sure that search engines know your website exists by submitting your URL to them directly. These 3 search engines are known to generate the most traffics.
2. List your company to Online Directories
Most website owners, who're on the lookout for ways to raise their Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and wish to improve their traffic to their website, submit their website to web directories. Getting listed in the online directories is a free, fast and easy way to promote your website due to the increasing need for web presence. To give you an idea to start listing your business online, this is the list of top-quality free local business directories for your local business in Canada:
- Yelp Canada
- Google My Business
- B ing Places for Business
- Foursquare Canada
- Kijiji
- 411.ca
- Profile Canada
- WebLocal
- TripAdvisor
- Yellow Pages Canada
- Canadian Business Directory
3. Build your Social Media Links
With around 1 billion people using Facebook and billion more using different social media sites, there are no excuses not to use social media to promote your website. You can use social media to share links to new or existing website content. Building your social media for your website promotion increases brand awareness in the social networks increases good quality traffic to your website and improved good quality backlinks for the websites as well. Most of us are already familiar with these social media sites:
4. Blogging
Articles that sounds genuinely well-intentioned and have a less aggressive marketing tone, will likely draw more interest to your site than self-promotion alone. Blogs and articles are also great for promoting link building for SEO benefits. Blog content is generally crawled and indexed much faster than regular pages on a static website, so consider having a blog that supports your website. These are free blogs you can take advantage of:
There are many free online places to promote your website, those listed above are some of the many of them. If you know other free places, please do share! With a small fee, we can help you save your time to do this listing for your business. Contact us by email at info@luladigital.com for more info!
