How To Start Promoting Your Home Based Business Website

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The old saying “if you build it, they will come” isn’t necessarily true when it comes to websites...

Getting your site up is certainly the first step, but you’ll need to actually work at driving some quality traffic.

Fortunately, there are many things you can do to get started with promoting your home based business website and/or personal blog.

Here are a few of those methods...

Website Promotion Tip #1 - Submit Your Site To (Relevant) Directories

Not to be confused with a search engine, a directory features a list (or lists) of sites, sorted most often by category.

Submitting your site to directories will give you more potential traffic, as well as help the ranking of your site.

One of the most popular directories is The Open Directory Project.

Website Promotion Tip #2 - Write Articles As A Guest For Other Sites

Cut right to where traffic is already flowing by finding sites that are relevant to yours and have already established a presence.

Managing a site often requires creating a lot of content, so offering to write as a guest contributor ...
... can easily help site owners out.

The benefit for you, is that you get to put your name (and website) in front of a targeted audience of readers.

As a result, you build your reputation, add credibility to your home based business, and generate extra traffic.

Website Promotion Tip #3 - Consistently Optimize Your Site (SEO)

Aside from regularly posting content to your site, there are a few extra steps you can take to optimize it for search engines to find.

This includes:

- Keyword-rich Title Pages...
- Description META tags...
- Place your keywords in headers (H1,H2,H3, etc.)...
- Descriptive keywords in the ALT portion of your image tags...
- Creating hyperlinks using keywords (also known as anchor text)...
- Create a sitemap to make your website easier for search engines to crawl...
- Multiple pages, each focused on one keyword...

...etc.

Website Promotion Tip #4 - Hold A Contest

Consider holding a giveaway or contest to generate extra traffic.

Promote it through social media and (potentially) word of mouth, and offer something everyone will enjoy.

Website Promotion Tip #5 - Create Small Products And Reports

By doing a little research in your niche, or sharing your experience, you can create small information products.

Once they’re created, you can offer them for free and allow others to share them with their friends and colleagues (as long as the content isn’t changed).

Naturally, you’ll have links to your site, which will help generate extra traffic.

(Keep in mind that you can also offer these reports as incentives you sign up for your e-mail list...)

Summary of Promoting Your Home Based Business Website

Using the steps above, you can lay the foundation for generating extra traffic to your website.

There are many different ways to promote your home based business website (some paid and some free), but the tips above will get you started in the right direction.

Steve Anthony is a top earner with several Internet Business Opportunities. Steve shares his 'tried and true' experience in making money on the Internet, and how is replacing his 9 to 5 job, and 30 years in the Construction Industry. Steve's passion is to positively impact tens of thousands of people who wish to replace their day job with a full time income the fastest way possible. He shares his true experience in his blog at http://steveanthonyinc.com/blog