However, getting targeted visitors to your webpage takes effort and a solid strategy.

If you’re starting out with your marketing, then getting visitors to your website is a start. If the ‘numbers game’ theory applies to you, then driving visitors to your website will eventually result in a sale.

Additionally, your business website will gain exposure, which is also good for increasing brand awareness and create the potential to… (you get it…) make a sale.

Where to start with your online marketing

One of the best places to start with your marketing is with directory listings. A business directory is an online version of an offline business directory, like the Yellow Pages and the Thomson Directory.

Why add your website to a directory?

There are two benefits to adding your website to a business directory.

1. you increase the potential to gain exposure, which man drive new visitors to your website.
2. your website gains some link reputation from the link in the directory (providing it’s a quality directory and your link is not one of 25 plus links on a page.

The latter in particular can help increase your website’s ranking by virtue of increasing its page rank, which is what we ultimately want from a directory listing.

So, in a nutshell:

To market your website, start by submitting a link to reputable business directories.

To get you started, here’s a directory I recommend:

The Free Index

How to submit to the free index:

1. Click on this link –> here
2. Register FREE for an account
3. Add your website

WARNING: don’t submit your listing to anything that looks like a ‘link farm’!

If in doubt, ask me before you add your site to a directory!

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