14 Free and Low Cost Ways to Promote Your Home Business
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There are countless ways to promote your home business blog or website that are free or very affordable. Below I listed 14 free and low cost ways you can use to promote or market home business. You are probably familiar with many of the options I listed below but there may be some you have not used before.
1. Create and verify a Webmaster Central Account at Google.
2. Create a Bing Webmaster Tools account and verify it.
3. Update or create your XML sitemap and upload it to Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster Tools.
4. Write a "how-to" article that addresses your specific niche for Wikihow.com or Answers.com. This is an awesome tool for getting mentions and links.
Write your article about a service or product you offer in a detail step-by-step manner. Make your article valuable and useful for your readers.
5. Verify, claim and update your Google Local Business listing. This isimmensely critical because Google Local Listings have been integrated with Google+. You can review an awesome resource at Blumenthals.com about how to manage your Local Google Listing.
6. Create a Google+ page for your home business and follow businesses thatare related to your product or service niche. Share valuable and useful content and make sure to link to your profile from your website. You should also consider allowing users to +1 your content on a page by page basis.
7. Make sure your Bing and Yahoo Local listings are updated.
8. Send the press release to your local media outlets, or any niche media outlets that may be interested or related to your niche. Press releases are great and are still an effective marketing tool. You can use paid services like PRWeb or a Vocus and you can you free press release sources.
The following press release sources are free:
9. Create a Twitter account and start Twittering. Each time you post and article in you blog or website share it on Twitter.
10. Create a Facebook account and also share your blog and website articles. Also use social bookmarking sites to share your articles.
11. Leave intelligent, sensible comments and opinions on blogs that are related to your website's topic and be sure to leave your URL. Even if it's a nofollow blog, you can attract a lot of traffic and boost your credibility as an authority on the subject matter.
12. Write unique HTML page titles for all of your pages. This is still very important.
13. Share your photos at Flickr - create a profile, write descriptions, and link to your website.
14. Create a slideshow of your products or services or record an original how-to video and upload to YouTube. Don't forget to optimize your title and descriptions. After you uploaded to
YouTube, create a new page and embed the video on your blog or website.
1. Create and verify a Webmaster Central Account at Google.
2. Create a Bing Webmaster Tools account and verify it.
3. Update or create your XML sitemap and upload it to Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster Tools.
4. Write a "how-to" article that addresses your specific niche for Wikihow.com or Answers.com. This is an awesome tool for getting mentions and links.
Write your article about a service or product you offer in a detail step-by-step manner. Make your article valuable and useful for your readers.
5. Verify, claim and update your Google Local Business listing. This isimmensely critical because Google Local Listings have been integrated with Google+. You can review an awesome resource at Blumenthals.com about how to manage your Local Google Listing.
6. Create a Google+ page for your home business and follow businesses thatare related to your product or service niche. Share valuable and useful content and make sure to link to your profile from your website. You should also consider allowing users to +1 your content on a page by page basis.
7. Make sure your Bing and Yahoo Local listings are updated.
8. Send the press release to your local media outlets, or any niche media outlets that may be interested or related to your niche. Press releases are great and are still an effective marketing tool. You can use paid services like PRWeb or a Vocus and you can you free press release sources.
The following press release sources are free:
9. Create a Twitter account and start Twittering. Each time you post and article in you blog or website share it on Twitter.
10. Create a Facebook account and also share your blog and website articles. Also use social bookmarking sites to share your articles.
11. Leave intelligent, sensible comments and opinions on blogs that are related to your website's topic and be sure to leave your URL. Even if it's a nofollow blog, you can attract a lot of traffic and boost your credibility as an authority on the subject matter.
12. Write unique HTML page titles for all of your pages. This is still very important.
13. Share your photos at Flickr - create a profile, write descriptions, and link to your website.
14. Create a slideshow of your products or services or record an original how-to video and upload to YouTube. Don't forget to optimize your title and descriptions. After you uploaded to
YouTube, create a new page and embed the video on your blog or website.