3 Free Marketing Tools Your Website Should Have

Posted By: Bob Buskirk on July 25th, 2009
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If there is one thing that everyone want’s for their website or blog….it’s traffic. It’s great when your blog or website gets traffic. It can make you money, get you more members, or just get more people interested in what you are writing about. Many people think that you have to pay to get a lot of traffic, but there many free options when it comes to bringing people to your website and once they are at your website getting them to come back. Repeat traffic is great and you always want people who come to your site to return again. So here are 3 free marketing tools that you can use to bring people to your website and keep them coming back.

RSS Feed
Now this is basically common sense for most site owners and bloggers, but if you don’t have a blog you might not have an RSS feed. An RSS feed is a simple file that when read correctly through an RSS reader lets people know the latest updates of your website, or anything really. With blogs your RSS feed is automatically generated so you really don’t have much to worry about, but with regular sites like ThinkComputers I have the write the RSS feed myself. It is an easy process and if I didn’t do it I would be missing out on the 600+ RSS readers that ThinkComputers has. You can use services like FeedBurner to track RSS subscribers.

E-mail Newletter
An e-mail newsletter is something else that a website should really have, especially if your site does not have an RSS feed. An e-mail newsletter, just like an RSS feed allows you to update users on whats going on, but in a more personal way since it delivers the message right into their inbox. You can have a e-mail newsletter that is sent out once a month just to update users on whats going on or have a daily one with your daily content it is totally up to you. If you don’t want to take the time to really write an e-mail newsletter, you can have FeedBurner deliver your RSS feed via e-mail to users.

Twitter
Of course you know this had to be on the list. Twitter really has become a great marketing tool and what’s even better is that it’s free. Many people I know think Twitter is just stupid or they don’t understand it. Look at it this way, I currently have over 5000 followers on Twitter. Every time I send out a message on Twitter 5000+ eyes see it, even if they don’t click the link in the tweet or are interested in what I have to say they still see it. Being able to reach that many people for free is definitely a plus, you wonder why Twitter has become so popular over the past year.

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6 Responses to “3 Free Marketing Tools Your Website Should Have”

Free Arcade Games said on July 27th, 2009 at 3:16 am

All you really need is an “RSS feed” because then your “subscriber” can choose what he/she wants to do to get updated.

-Mike
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EarningStep said on July 30th, 2009 at 11:00 pm

about email newletter , which is more powerful if compare with feed burner. i am confuse to start my account at aweber
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Branding Sydney said on July 31st, 2009 at 4:42 am

For marketing concept and methodology we need to put right marketing strategies to cater the right target audience. hence in keeping the consideration to the online marketing strategies we need focus more the specific target audience keeping in the consideration the demography, sex, age and so on.

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Kopertowki said on August 3rd, 2009 at 5:26 am

I agree that those are some methods of free traffic increasing methods, but I would not recommend using e-mail newsletter as one of the main methods. I heard many about newsletters and efficiency is not one of those things. Newsletters can become really annoying if not created with some unique skills of writing about not interesting things in interesting way. I think that RSS feed and Twitter could give much more results.

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Mother of Pearl Beads said on August 6th, 2009 at 12:09 pm

wooo, thanks for this one.

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Kitchen Cabinets said on August 6th, 2009 at 12:13 pm

thanks for letting me know this.

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