13 Free Ways to Promote your Local Business
Many local businesses struggle to find ways to promote themselves, get links, rank in search engines, and ultimately drive traffic to their websites. Most small businesses also have limited budgets making the task more difficult. For those businesses here are 13 ways you can promote your business online for free.

Google Local: If you don’t already have one Create an account on Google Local. Enter your company name, address, phone number and website. Verify the information with a postacard or telephone call. In a few weeks you will help you get a map listing for your company name or industry and town.

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If you ask me how to generate traffic for your website, i can give you a long list for traffic generation technique. There are a number of traffic generation techniques that one can use to drive traffic to a website. However, caution should be taken as techniques successful a few years ago may not be very applicable now.

There are a couple of sites and Internet Marketers who claim that they have the secret to the best free traffic generation ideas; however, a number of these techniques don’t yield any success. In any case,it important to follow new traffic generation techniques like using Twitter and LinkedIn to drive traffic to a dating site…

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If your sales depend only on Google traffic and Google adsense or adwords then you could be in for a big dissapointment. Constant search engine rankings can make or break you. I know. I’ve been there. Riding high on Google rankings then dropping like a 2 ton rock in the Altlantic ocean.

Do NOT put all your eggs in one basket. There are several other ways to drive traffic to your site and depending on just one, like Google, is just plain bad marketing efforts.

Yahoo, Yahoo’s YPN, and other search engines along with pay-per-click programs can bring you extra traffic and maybe even more sales.

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