The internet is a big place, there are millions of websites published and 100's new ones everyday so with so much competition it might be a little difficult to get your website or product out there.

You could have the best product or website the world has ever seen, but if you dont know how to advertise, then results could take a while.

I been advertising online for myself and as an affiliate for companies as well and I have learned what works and what really does not work.

So today I want to share some tips that have help me personally and I think it could help a person new to the online world looking to advertise their website or product.

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Location on real-state as well as online is very important, knowing where to place ads & how to place them is the key to having success. Although free advertising takes more time, its better to spend some time then some money

Here are the top 5 FREE ways to advertise your content:

1. Social Networks

If your advertising at social networks like myspace, facebook and others you must be casual with your advertising you cannot have your website or your product everywhere and make it about what your advertising, you must build relationships to make people trust you and brand yourself enough that people would want to get to know more about you and your ventures.

2. Forums

Forums are a great place to advertise, the best way is to join forums related to what you want people to see, if your an online marketer join forums where people share ideas and comments on online business, have a signature directing to your website, and be helpful and known in the forums, building respect between forum members will make people listen more to your suggestions and comments.

3. Traffic-Exchanges

Traffic exchanges are used a lot to drive traffic to websites, as well as by online marketers, the problem with this is that the sole purpose is to surf for credits to display your own ads, so as a result many of the people in traffic exchanges are not interested in the content but in displaying their ads. But some simple tactics can make your ads get clicked or visit more than others. You can accomplish this by creating curiosity, you want that surfer to visit your site because he wants to, so best tactics are lead capture pages for your website that give small hints but create enough curiosity to make a surfer click through.

4. Social Video Sites

Websites like youtube, metacafe, and others are great for driving traffic, but you must know some simple tricks to get your videos seen, check some of my tips here How To Rank High On Youtube

5. Search Engines

Although some people find it really hard to get search engines to list your website, its better to try then to have not tried at all, submit your website URL to search engines you want although it can take a while to see results, the way to get them listed is content, your website must have pages and fresh content that is updated once in a while, search engines don't like copycats of other websites.

Here is a list of some great websites by category that are FREE and can bring you great results

Social Networks

• Myspace: Popular social site with the option of placing free ads
• Facebook: Popular social site with millions of users to share and connect also free advertisement placements
• Yuwie: Free to join although is not that popular is great place as half the members are network marketers

Forums

• There are 100's of forums so my advice is to pick one of your interest as well as related to your website or product.

Traffic-Exchanges

• TrafficSwarm: one of the most popular traffic exchanges and easy to use
• Easyhits4U: another great traffic exchange with security features

Do not join too many of these types of sites as they may consume a lot of your time I would suggest maximum 3

Social Video Sites

• Youtube: world's most popular video sharing site
• Metacafe: also widely popular

To make your videos go viral you can use a free website called tubemogul that it will submit a video to multiple video sites with a click of your mouse

Search Engines

• Google: number 1 search engine in the world
• MSN
• Yahoo

Others

• You-Cubez.com : this a great place to advertise and get non-stop hits to your website
• Whynotad.com : Great way to get on google by posting free classifieds
• Millionleadsforfree.com : Works like a traffic exchange but with e-mails
• Orangeleads.com : Great place to post ads for free
• InstantBuzz.com : Display ads to thousands by using a toolbar

There are tons of more ways to advertise online but in my personal experience these ones have brought me the most results. You might also wish to learn how to make people advertise your website or products for you,learning how to let people sell for you and never spend a dime in advertising for that you will need the FREE ADVERTISING SYSTEM

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