10 Best Ways to Advertise your site FREE

You've made your site, applied SEO and have fantastic content.

Now what?

Time to advertise!

You have to get the word out and advertise for your customers to take notice. SEO is great, but if you're keen to get going and you don't have the time or the option to wait for search engines to find and index your site, then advertising your website is key.

Advertising is a tricky one.

Where to start?

How to promote your site?

Should you pay or use free advertising?

If like us at the beginning your starting your business with little or no money then cheap or free advertising is the key to generating your crowd, which in turn becomes your customer base.

This blog is split into 3 parts; Free Advertising for websites, Cheap Advertising for websites and paid Advertising for websites.

Part 1 - FREE Advertising for websites

In part one we are going to talk about free advertising for websites 'that actually work!'

If your business is local then there are many free sites to advertise on, which we will cover in another blog post (Local FREE Advertising). Sign up to our newsletter for more info.

There are many places online that offer free advertising for websites, however, most free advertising sites that are online require a lot of work to be completed before you can start generating traffic.

We have collated the Top 10 free advertising sites for websites that we have used that generate tons of traffic.

1. Facebook

You probably already have a Facebook account, if not sign up right away! Facebook is a haven for generating traffic and leads for your business for FREE. Facebook is the biggest social media platform online and has the most members.

Start a business page by clicking on the 'create a Page' button and upload any new content you have on your blog to your Facebook page as often as possible.

Advertising with social media requires engaging content, share your page with friends and family and get them to share the page too.

You will slowly build a network of potential customers which comes from FREE advertising.

Facebook has over 1.79 billion active users (as of writing this post). These potential clients use Facebook everyday, sometimes multiple times a day! Get sharing your page and posts with your friends and family so they can help build your network.

All social media is great for building your network of potential customers we use Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, but you don't need to sign up to them all. 2 or 3 will do. We say 2 or 3 so you can provide enough time and effort to updating them regularly to increase your customer base organically:

(As of January 2017)

Instagram - Used to share visual stories - 300 million users

LinkedIn - Used by professional people to build a professional network - 323 million users.

Google + - Used for interactive relationship engagement between members - 300 million users.

Pinterest - A photo sharing website to engage with users - 70 million users.

Tumblr - A micro blogging site used to share anything from video to text - 420 million users

Flickr - Used to share Photos and Video 51 million users

Reddit - A social networking site 174 million users

2. YouTube

YouTube is a video sharing site with over 1 billion unique visitors a month! YouTube have a range of videos covering nearly every legal category. The best thing about sharing your advertising videos with YouTube is that you don't have to be a professional videographer to upload your project, you can easily make slideshows using pictures up using apps on your phone (such as iMovie with easy to follow instructions for beginners). Check out our YouTube page for more info and to see how you can make money from each video uploaded.

If you want to get a promotional video made but don't have the funds to go to a professional marketing firm, have a browse on Fiverr by entering 'promotional video' or 'advertising video' in the search bar.

3. Classified Ads

Online classified ads are a great way to generate leads for FREE. By posting your advert and link in the relevant category you can guarantee to receive hits from customers browsing local for what your business has to offer. From high profiles to local directories adding your link will also help improve you SEO as you will be generating backlinks:

4. SEO & Backlinks

SEO is extremely important for your site to organically be shown in search engines when a customer searches for a keyword relevant to your site and products. It is worth spending time fully optimising your website. To read more visit our SEO page or download our free SEO do it yourself ebook now.

Backlinks are a necessity for any website to be ranked highly on search engines. However, high authority Backlinks out rank low authority Backlinks and if you have too many from low authority sites it will look like spam and your site may be penalised from Google. To find out more about backlinks download our guide now.

5. Forum signature

Join some forums in your niche and start communicating with the readers. Share advice, answer questions and participate well to not get banned for spanning. If you become an active member you can use you signature to link to your website. This in turn will give you a wave of traffic from people interested in your niche because you are commenting in the same field.

6. Publish articles

Article publishing is a great way to generate free traffic for your site. Most blogs and forums offers guest post appearances or sometimes you might see a section that says 'write for us'. These sites usually generate hundreds, if not thousands of views a day, each reader interested in the niche you have selected. If you post an article with a link to your website advising 'to find out more click here', then just imagine the traffic that can pore into your site.

7. Yahoo answers

Here at Your Money Site we love this method. Yahoo Answers is a section of Yahoo used for people to ask questions and get answers. Sign up to Yahoo and browse different questions in your niche.

If, for example, your website is in the weight loss niche then type that into the search field. Any questions you see relating to your site answer them. You have to reach level 2 to be able to post your link but please note that Yahoo will ban you if you over use this facility. When you get to level 2 do not use your link for every answer. Sometimes post links to other websites fitting your answer or another page to your website other than the home page but do not post a link for every answer you give.

8.Web submission

Every site will eventually get crawl by the Search Engine bots but submitting your site to be indexed is a faster way of getting your site recognised by Search Engines:

9. Comments

Most blogs, social media platforms, discussion posts and forums have a comments section. Even your favourite newspaper or magazine articles will have them. People enjoy discussing topics with other users as well as reading what people have to say. They best way to use the comments sections without being too spammy or getting blocked is to be an active member. Taking 5 mins a day to log on to your platform and interact with users by leaving a comment or question relating to the subject talked about will help you become an active member and not just someone who logs on to post a link. After 4 or 5 comments spread over a week post your link with a relevant sentence e.g. I used to find it so hard to make money online but this site yourmoneysite.co.uk helped me out!

10. Word of mouth

This is a great way to advertise if your product is relevant to the intended customer. Even if you don't want to let people know that your product is what is being advertised you can advised them on a site that may help and then give them your Site etc.

Always be promoting. They key to having a successful business that brings in constant revenue is constant promotion.

If you don't advertise then people can't find you.

If people can't find you they can't buy what your offering.

If they can't buy what your offering then you have no revenue, simple!