Simple, Powerful Ways To Grow Your Online Business

Whether you’ve got an online business selling some form of digital products, or you use a website to sell physical products, you need customers. And, to get them, they need to be able to find you.

So, how visible are you online? How well do you promote your online business? What strategies do you use to grow your online business?

Well, once you’ve done your keyword research, the easiest and quickest method to get people to your site is pay per click advertising. If you can produce a compelling ad, people will click through and if your product is equally compelling, they will buy.

But if you want some no-cost alternatives, here are the ones that offer good opportunities for building customer relations and will improve search engine rankings at the same time.

1. Blogging

If you haven’t got a blog, create one using WordPress and add it to your site. Post 3 times a week on interesting aspects of your products and include relevant keywords.

Your blog will help to grow your online business. It will get your site more attention from search engines because of its regular new content. It will help your site ranking, as well as providing more opportunity for people to find you.

2. Article Marketing

Write an article each week and distribute it to article sites, or have it distributed to many sites by a paid-for article submission service like SubmitYourArticles. Include a link to your site at the end of the article. It will get picked up by the search engines as a backlink to your site as well as bringing direct traffic.

4. YOUTUBE….Video

Make a simple video about your product and put it on your site. Shots of the product and what it does, or you describing it, will make it easier for visitors to see what your product can do for them.

By finishing with your web address for 10 seconds, it can make a great free advertisement when you post it on You Tube.

5. Press Releases

Issue a press release through an agency like PRweb. You just make an announcement about your product or service and they will distribute it to sites throughout the web.

This is a paid-for service, but it can have good results and is worth considering, once you are regularly creating blogs, articles, videos and hub pages.

Over time, these methods will all help to grow your online business. They will improve search engine rankings for your site pages and will also bring in direct traffic. For them to be effective, you just have to consistent in carrying them out.

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