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4. Write an excellent article review of their web site, products or services. Then publish review on your web site. E-mail web site owner and tell him or her about it. They may link to your web site so their visitors read it.
5. Ask owner of web site if they would want to trade advertising. If you don't get as much traffic as they do, you could throw in some extra incentives.
6. Propose a cross promotion deal with web site. You both could promote each others products or services together in one package deal. This means a mention and link back to your web site.
7. Give web site a testimonial for their product or service. Include a little text link for your web site with testimonial. You never know; it could end up on their ad copy.
8. Post your advertisement on their free classified ad section on their web site. You want to be sure you have an attractive headline so they will read your ad.
9. Sign their guest book. You could leave a short compliment about their web site on their guest book. Just include your signature file and link at end of your message.
10. Tweak your own website so that your pages are search engine friendly. There are steps that you can take that don't take long to implement but can dramatically improve traffic you get from likes of Google and Yahoo! Louis Allport has a great video guide which shows quickest and easiest way to do this. It can be found at: http://69.44.170.93/google-friendly-ebook-software.htm
Chris Towland 2005
Chris is the zookeeper at http://www.Elephant-On-Toast.com A haven of no-cost and low-cost software and help for anyone who runs (or wants to run) an online business.