You have written your sales letter, you have designed your website and your products are ready to go. Now what you need is search engine traffic because you want to start making sales as soon as possible. This is the point where most website owners get to after spending months trying to get their website ready for the Internet. if you are reading this article, then you might also be on the same boat.
If you really want that nicely designed site of yours to start getting traffic from the search engines, not just general traffic but highly targeted traffic so that you will stand of chance of making sales on your website, then you need to get an experienced SEO consultant.

The problem with website owners is that they feel that SEO is very basic and quite easy to understand. This is far from the truth. If you go about SEO with the idea that it’s very easy and can be easily implemented to bring you tons of targeted visitors, then you might be heading for the rocks. SEO is deep and it requires a level of knowledge and experience which you can only get from an experienced SEO consultant.

Online marketing is expensive. You can loose thousands of dollars in Pay Per Click and thousands of site-targeted dollars, and you can go through thousands in getting text links from smaller sites. Believe me, I’ve done it on advertising.

Yet, The best kind of marketing is the where you don’t pay a dime. Anything free is cool, since it helps my sites make more money and won’t increase my outlay for that campaign.

I wante to give you three easy and quick ways to get traffic to your  website at no additional cost.

1. Free Business Cards

No-cost  business cards are the foundation in my advertising arsenal. You can leave them everywhere and give them to anyone. The best part is, they are free! Use them where you want, when you want, and as often as possible. That is the motto I live by whenever I get a shipment of free business cards in the mail.

2. Link Exchanges

if you want to know who to link to, do some research on you competitors, then get links from the same place they do, but also of sharing visitors. Most people who like a site will bookmark it. After they have read everything they want, they will read the site that you link to. You get the visitors, and share the visitor through a link exchange.

3. Business card networking

After you have received your free business cards, use them to network with other people. Every time you meet someone, hand them one of your free business cards. After that, ask for one of their business cards in exchange. If they don’t have one, make sure you mention what you do, and the website address that is also listed on your free business card. Free business cards make a great networking tool if you will put them to use. Never forget, they are free, and should not be used sparingly. Use them in any situation you can think of. People will take them home and visit your site when they pull your business card out of their pocket.

With those three free website marketing ideas, your website will not only be more successful, but you won’t have to spend any of your hard earned money on marketing!