Free Marketing Techniques

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Article Marketing

Article Marketing is probably the most common free marketing technique that people are taking advantage of at the current time, as it is very easy to get started as an Article Marketer. If you are coming to Wealthy Affiliate with a limited budget, then we highly suggest that you consider Article marketing as one of your first Internet marketing ventures.

So what is Article Marketing? Well, it basically requires you as the "article marketer" to write articles about various topics. This can be almost anything, but there are certain keywords that you are going to want to focus on within your articles with the intention on having your article listed in the search engines naturally.

When you have an article naturally (organically) listed in Google, Yahoo, MSN, or any other search engine, you will be able to drive traffic to your affiliate links for FREE.

There are specific techniques you can use when writing articles, and places where you should submit them, but we are not going to go into too much more depth here because we have dedicated an entire resource to article marketing.

Search Engine Optimization

Search Engine Optimization or SEO is the term that is used to describe the idea of optimizing your websites so that they are optimized for search engines such as Google, Yahoo, or MSN. If a website is optimized properly, it will be able to obtain natural listings within the search results (the results down the middle of the screen when you do a search) under specific keywords that the site is optimized for.

There are many different factors that contribute to a site being optimized, and this is based on the specific Search Engine algorithms. We have created a tutorial that you should read over in regards to Search Engine Optimization. This is a technique that you should implement with all of your websites, but it is definitely not as easy as some of the other techniques that we have or will be describing. SEO is great because you can obtain free traffic (if you can manage to get into the search results), but it is also a very volatile Internet marketing strategy because your entire campaigns are at the mercy of the Search Engines. If they make a shift in their algorithm, you search results (and your profits) could easily disappear overnight.

There are specific techniques you can use when creating SEO campaigns so we have dedicated an entire category to Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

Penny Pincher Techniques

We have created a guide that strictly outlines the many free marketing techniques that you can implement to earn money here at Wealthy Affiliate and on the Internet. This is a great guide to follow if you are on a limited budget, and we highly recommend that EVERYONE goes over this and at the very least try one or two of the techniques.

It does not take money to make money online and it is probably the only business in the world that you can start without the initial capital. Money that you earn from techniques like the ones within the Penny Pincher guide (and this section) can be used to drive paid campaigns. The two will likely work hand-in-hand once you begin generating revenue.

Forum Marketing

Many of you are probably familiar with forums, but are yet to realize the potential for profits that can be earned through simple "signature" lines. There are several different ways to generate income through forums and we are going to explain these methods for you. Please make sure that you do not confuse forum marketing with forum spamming... if you think you can plug forums with your affiliate links without offering value, you are a spammer (this is not marketing).

As with any other method of marketing you will become more successful if you offer your audience value. Whether you are talking about making money or child behavior problems, there is potential to make money within a forum environment if you are tactful and tasteful with forum posts and your marketing tactics..

You can learn all about forum marketing in the above mentioned "Penny Pincher" tutorial, however we have a real life example of how forum marketing can be applied in our WA forum marketing guide below.