You have your web site up and you need to let people know your information is available. How do you get visitors?

You can do one or more of any of these:

• Google AdWords
• Social Bookmarking
• Social News Sites
• Article Marketing
• Commenting on other Blogs

Of all of these, only Google AdWords costs money. All the others you can do yourself for free, or you can pay others to create articles, submit your posts to the social bookmarking and social news sites, and to comment on blogs with a link back to your site.

Smart people don’t touch Google AdWords without first getting some training, usually from Perry Marshall. He’s the best. I don’t know how many people have lost thousands of dollars with Google AdWords, but it’s not uncommon. So be sure to get some training before using this super tool.

Here’s a social bookmarking tip: It’s best to have friends submit your posts to social bookmarking and social news sites. Many of these sites do not want people submitting their own work.

Another tip that will help you get more votes on these sites is to have friends vote for your posts at these sites. Your goal is to get onto page one of these sites, and to do that you have to get lots of votes.

You might want to get a group of friends together who will vote for each. But be careful, as some of these social sites do not like the same group of people voting for each other’s posts. Writing posts that are controversial helps, too.

Article marketing is often overlooked. It’s still a great way to get quality keyword links pointing to your site, as well as deep linking to certain posts that are on your site.

If you write your own articles and submit them yourself to the major article directories, it is completely free. If you use a service like Need-An-Article (they do a lot of work for me) and then use Submit Your Articles, there will be a minimal cost you will pay out for getting visitors and links.

For the first year I wrote all my own articles and used Submit Your Articles to get them in front of a lot more people than if I had submitted the articles to a few article directories. Now I request about 20 articles from Need-An-Article each week and use these for original content on some of my sites and to submit to article directories. I can submit 8 a month with Submit Your Article, the rest I submit by hand to EzineArticles.com.

Using these two services is a bit time-saver and it allows me to keep up with posting to about 20 sites, submitting some of the original posts to social sites, and doing other business-growing items that take time.

If you want to submit articles by hand to the top article directories, here are the ones I recommend:

EzineArticles.com
ArticleAlley.com
GoArticles.com
IdeaMarketers.com
ArticlesBase.com

There are more, and you can find them by doing a search for “article directory.” There are hundreds of them.

Commenting on blogs and including your site’s URL is another good way to get visitors and links. The best is to be the first one to comment. Find some blogs that are in your topic and keep an eye on them for new posts that you can comment on.

That covers the five ways to get visitors to your site. There are more, but these are probably the best.

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