42 Free Advertising methods to Advertise your Website for Free

42 Free Advertising methods to Advertise your Website for Free

Some of these 42 free ways to advertise your website can also be used to advertise your business for free even if you don't have a website. (Your contact details can be just a phone number or email address, instead of a link to your website or blog.)

1. Free online classifieds sites
2. Free business directories
3. Get a free blog, like a Blogger blogspot blog (like this one you're on now, but you can choose a different look for it) frequently update it with fresh content, and include a link to your main website in the sidebar, or near the bottom (like I have on this blog, that links through to one of my websites)
4. EzineArticles – write articles for EzineArticles, related to what your business or website is about, and include a link to your site in the author’s resource box at the bottom; sometimes people visit EzineArticles, use these articles on their own sites too, leaving your resource box intact, with your link to your site – try other article directory sites too
5. Include a link to your site on your FaceBook profile
6. Set up a FaceBook page on FaceBook about your business, with a link to its website; invite all your friends to like your FaceBook page, and encourage them to encourage their own friends to like the page too
7. Include a link to your site on your profile of any photo site you join, like Flickr or RedBubble, if they allow it
8. Include a link to your site on your profile of any online writing site you join, that allows it, and also within the articles you write on those online writing sites, if it's allowed
9. Include a link to your site on your profile of any social bookmarking site that you join, which allows it
10. Bookmark your site for free on bookmarking sites like Twitter, FaceBook, StumbleUpon, Xomba, RedGage, SheToldMe, andBest-Reviewer - update! You can no longer bookmark your own sites on Xomba.
    On Best Reviewer, (see image below) you also have the opportunity to earn if people click the Adsense ads that appear on the same page as your links leading to your site/s! (If you're an Adsense publisher.)
11. 1. 
       Join free business networking sites
    Join forums that discuss topics that relate to the content on your website or blog, take part in the discussions, and have your link to your site displayed beneath your comments and discussions
12. Leave decent, appropriate comments on other people’s blogs that have content related to the content on your own site, and fill in your website link details when you submit the comment (your name will be linkable to your site)
13. Include a resource page on your site where you link to other places offering similar services or products as your own, but perhaps in a different area so there’s less competition for your business, and ask them to link back to your site on their resources page
14. Be a guest writer on other people’s blogs or sites
15. Submit your site’s URL (website address) to many search engines and directories (where it’s free to submit URLs)
16. Do keyword research and do your best to include words in the articles on your site that people are searching for frequently, and that do not have too much competition so that hopefully you get a page 1 Google or Bing or Yahoo etc search result and people can link through to your site
17. Give away items for free, that have the link to your site displayed, or at least the text address of your site, if it cannot be made linkable, that will be displayed on other people’s computers or websites – items such as free ebooks, free stock photos, calendar desktops, screensavers, or a website you have designed for somebody
18. If you provide a service where you can include a link or printed website address to your site on the product, don’t forget to do it (like web design, printing or publishing)
19. Upload interesting videos to YouTube, that possibly relate to your site, and include a link to your site on the video, or in the text description beneath the video
20. Trade some working time for somebody for free ad space on their site
21. Use a free email service like gmail to email people who subscribe to your mailing list on your site
22. Include a link to your site in your email signature on all your outgoing emails
23. Give people who have provided you with a service or product (that you’ve appreciated or has benefited you or you business) a good testimonial that they publish on their site with a link to your site
24. Join a group that helps spread the word about your business by word of mouth if you do the same for them
25. Give talks about what your business is about
26. Use paper you already have at home or at work to print simple A6 flyers you can pop into people’s postboxes, or leave on the counters of businesses that allow you to
27. Use paper you already have at home or at work to print simple small posters you can put up in places that allow free advertising on their walls eg some shopping centres, smaller shops, clinics, waiting rooms
28. Use paper you already have at home or at work to print simple small posters you can put up on the inside of your car’s back window
29. Give away some hours of your service worktime for free, at events that have lucky draw prizes and need prized donated – make sure you clearly name your business or website on the outside of the prize envelope
30. Get creative and do some artwork using paints you have at home already on some tshirts, hats, scarves or other clothing you already own – wear them out and about often, also get creative with the clothing of your children, parents, siblings, spouse, cousins, friends and even pets
31. Use scrap materials from home to sew simple dog jackets to give to your friends for their dogs, obviously including your business name or website address on the dog’s clothing
32. When you go walking on the beach, write your website address in the sand with a stick (write it big)
33. Put a simple poster on the door of your apartment, house, or on the front gate
34. Open your mouth – keep your eyes and ears open for people around you who might sound like they could make good use of your business product or service, and speak to them
35. Recycle materials at home, or use natural free items found in your garden or at the beach, make something cute or handy, attach your website address, and give tons of them away for free, wherever you go
36. Do a podcast or two
37. Enter competitions or find places that offer awards for good services or products (if you win, try make sure your business name or website link is announced too.)
38. If your site is a blog, join blog aggregator sites
39. At school functions or other functions where you are asked to bring a plate of eats, mark the eats’ container with your business name and website address
40. Make handmade business cards from materials you already have at home, keep them in the car, in your bag, and in your pockets, and hand them out to everyone you talk to
41. Display your business name and website address in large letters on your shopping bag, so that even when you go shopping in clothes that do not display your website address, your bag could make a great conversation opener while waiting in a long boring queue.