No-Budget Internet Marketing

Are you a novice in the world of online business? Are you deprived of the resources to stand a chance in striking a deal established JV partners?  Don't have the finances for pay-per-click campaigns?

No problem!

Here are 5 free but highly potent tactics you can use to advertise your enterprise in the World Wide Web.

1. Marketing with articles. Create an article related to the subject matter of your online enterprise. See to it that this article delivers something noteworthy. Submit the article to the big article banks in the World Wide Web, most importantly Ezine Articles, GoArticles and iSnare. Don't forget to attach a resource box, which should state read-worthy tidbits about yourself or your enterprise, as well as a link to your website. Accomplish this at least 3 times per week. In a short period of time, you will generate direct traffic consisting of the people who got interested about your articles, as well as indirect traffic courtesy of a higher SERP position for relevant queries achieved with the help of the hundreds backlinks you are most definite to win per article.

2. Link exchange. This is similar to you scratching another's back, and him returning the favor. Other Internet businessmen are also looking for exposure for their businesses. Hook up with them by guaranteeing to publish their link on your web pages if they will reciprocate your kind deed.

3. Press release distribution. Thousands of offline and virtual world entities are always searching for noteworthy items to republish. They monitor newswires for such works. You can prepare a hype-free, noteworthy news item about your online undertaking. You may state the launch of your venture, minus the hype, naturally. You may announce the launch of your web pages. You may announce the launch of a new product, without any form of a sales pitch. Prepare a press release, and distribute the same to online newswires like PRWeb, and in a matter of hours, real-world and online entities will be picking it up, generating fantastic traffic to your website.

4. Exploit the power of user-driven web tools. The beauty of Web 2.0 websites is that the online denizens themselves are empowered to determine what's hot and what's not. You can exploit this to your benefit by specifically targeting social news networks (Digg, Reddit, Propeller), social networking websites (MySpace.com, Facebook), and social bookmarking services (StumbleUpon) and transforming them into vital weaponry for your marketing adventures. Indeed, Web 2.0 websites are free to turn into marketing machines.

5. Search engine optimization. Eight out of ten visitors that you will be able to get for your website will be referred by the search engines. And search engine traffic won't cost you a single cent, if you can create your web pages to gain the attention of those search engine spiders.