1.Offer a freebie or a contest for your items: One of main reasons that people use Internet is to find free (or cheaper) stuff. If you offer a freebie or contest for one of your items, then you are likely to attract potential customers. To get maximum exposure for your freebie or contest, you should register with as many “free stuff sites” as possible. Here are a couple of sites which would be a good starting point: http://www.thefreesite.com and http://www.realfreesite.com.

2.Link to similar websites: A popular method used by webmasters to increase web traffic is to swap links with comparable websites. However, trick to maximizing effectiveness of linking is to find sites with a minimum Google PageRank, which is a system which Google uses to judge importance of each webpage, of 3 or 4. To find out more information about PageRank, click here: http:/ oolbar.google.com/ . To find good linking partners, check out these two link partner directories: http://www.links-pal.com/ and http://www.gotop.com/.

Write A Newsletter To Get Site Visitors To Return (And More)!

- by Steve Nash

(c) Steve Nash - All Rights reserved http://www.howipromotemywebsite.com ________________________________________

[Article last revised: Jan 2004]

How many visitors to your site *ever* return?

Not as many as you would like, I bet!

The thing is, it's a lot easier and less time-consuming to promote your site to people who have *already* visited. So how do you do that? Well, you could:

- Ask people to bookmark your site;

- Get people to make your site their homepage (your site needs to be *very* good, though);

- Make your site next Yahoo! or Blogger or Hotmail (ideal, but not too easy); or...

- PUBLISH AN EZINE OR NEWSLETTER!

Yes, publish a newsletter (and get people to subscribe).

Writing a newsletter is BEST WAY to stay in touch with site visitors and existing customers.

At *very least*, you can remind them about your website on a regular basis. But, even better, you get a chance to develop trust between your site visitors and yourself.

And on faceless Internet, trust is everything!

=> VISIT THIS WEBSITE

Visit Dr.Mani Sivasubramanian's Ezine Marketing Centre. Dr Mani's ezine resource has plenty of free information on ezine publishing.

To quote from site, Ezine Marketing Centre lets you:

"Create email newsletters, build huge opt in email lists and get advanced ezine marketing tips, strategies and secrets right now. Create email newsletters or ezines to promote your e-business and explode profits - Advertising tips techniques secrets ebook for high profit email list building, getting, buying tips and techniques to increase email list profits..."

You get idea.

And, Dr Mani sells plenty of information too, for those willing to invest money (as well as time) into their ezine publishing efforts.

http://www.ezinemarketingcenter.com/

=> OR VISIT THESE LINKS

http://www.topica.com

http://groups.yahoo.com

http://www.domeus.co.uk

http://www.roving.com

http://www.listbuilder.com

http://www.sparklist.com

=> THEN PROMOTE! PROMOTE! PROMOTE!

As with your website, you need to promote your newsletter, and get people to sign-up. By all means start with your friends and family, and then try these legitimate methods (please don't send unsolicited mail - SPAM wastes everyone's time!):

* You MUST promote your newsletter on your own site

- Put newsletter sign-up form at top left or top right of as many of your pages as possible. Offer an incentive to sign-up, sell benefits of your newsletter (first notice of next sale, for instance, or chance to win something)

- Use pop-up windows to encourage sign-ups. A little bit controversial, this, but pop-ups *do* increase subscriber sign-ups! Find a script here: http://javascript.internet.com/

* You CAN announce your newsletter to world