I use my computer to promote my website, it is so Important

I use my computer to promote my website, it is so important that you get traffic, or you will not make any money from your site.

To get traffic to your website, you need to advertise. There are many ways to advertise, from Word of Mouth to a Fully Paid Advertising Campaign, but what if you don't have the money to pay for advertising, your just starting out or you simply can't afford to pay, then here are a few ways to get your message out there.

You can promote your site or offer with a blog, like this one, writing your own interesting articles, adding your own photos or comments to interesting items you found on the web, which relate to the site you promote. Writing a blog is not enough, you need to let the world know what you have posted, you need to ping your site. What's That! When you have your Blog pinged, your blog information is sent out to many sites, and lets the blog search engines know your site exists.

I have used two Blog Pinging sites, there are others, the first is at Pingomatic and the other is at Pingoat. I also have my Blog listed at Technorati this site has an excellent search feature, to help people find the information and blogs that they are interested in. There are many such sites.

Another fun way to promote your website, is with traffic exchange. The principal of traffic exchange is that you look at other peoples sites or advertising, in exchange for having your site advertised. It doesn't sound all that interesting, but these sites have interesting ways of making it fun, and I have lernt so much from looking at these sites. You can choose the subject that you are interested in, so the sites are relevant to your likes, and every so often you find a site that you find extremely useful. It is free to sign up for these sites, and if you need extra adds, then you may sign up for extra packages.

The last way of getting Free Advertising, is to get a program that allows free advertising. Megapromoter is not free to join, but the one time fee gives you free advertising, free products, way more value than the cost. You become a member of their forum, so you can ask and get help setting up your adds, you get a choice to sell their many products and make money, and you can get free traffic to your site. Have a look at what is on offer, and even if you decide not to buy Megapromoter, there is a free info pack on advertising, well worth your trouble for looking.

I hope this will give you some information to help you advertise your site.

The Internet Knows What You'll Do Next, article

This article, by David Leonhardt, is about the introduction of Google Trends, and the new way we now can find information on Internet searches.

Here are a few snippets:

A FEW years back, a technology writer named John Bagatelle began talkingabout how the Internet had made it possible to predict the future. When people went to the home page of Google or Yahoo and entered a few words into a search engine, what they were really doing, he realized, was announcing their intentions.

A few weeks ago, Google took a big step toward changing this — toward making the database of intentions visible to the world — by creating a product called Google Trends. It allows you to check the relative popularity of any search term, to look at how it has changed over the last couple years and to see the cities where the term is most popular. And it's totally addictive.

You will find the artical at

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/05/business/05leonhardt.html

As I use my computer a lot for research, I have added Google Trends to my toolbar. It it handy to know what the percentage of traffic for a keyword is, so to extend on this information, I recommend you also try Wordtracker to compair your keyword phrases. You need to know if you are going to get traffic for a given phrase.

When I use my computer for searching the Web, Search Toolbars & Utilities help save time.

This is a great page from Search Engine Watch, great tools to help you surf the Web.

Check it out and see what you think!

Search Toolbars & Utilities

By Danny Sullivan, Editor-In-Chief
January 27, 2004

There are a variety of ways you can search and navigate the web without first going directly to a search engine.Search toolbars provide direct access to search engines from within your browser, while meta search utilities make it easy to search more than one search engine at the same time. Search companions often helpyou "discover" information as you browse pages on the web.

Jump to:
Search Toolbars From Major Search Engines
Other Search Toolbars - Meta Search Utilities
Search Companions - Articles About Search Toolbars
Removing Adware/Spyware

I added this information for when I use my computer, and I hope you find it useful also.