For most businesses nowadays it is essential to have a website. Even if your business is of a more practical and solid nature, you will miss out on quite a bit of customers unless you have put up a website about your business on the net. There are many ways that you can increase your profits by having your business on the internet. With a good website that is optimized for the search engines, together with you doing a bit of free online business advertising, your site can rank higher than your competitors and in this way have more visitors and sales.

Free Internet business advertising provides you with two beneficial ways to generate traffic to your website. First of all, people that are seeing your advertising will in many cases be looking for exactly that information and are therefore likely to move on to your website. A major result of an online advertising campaign is the backlinks that are created from all of your ads on the web and increase your natural search engine rankings. The fact is that practically all searchers will go to the sites listed on the first page, and never really check into the second page or deeper in the results, so being on the first page will result in more potential customers for your business.

So what are the things you can do to promote your website for free? One thing that is very efficient is to write articles and submit them to a number of article directories on the web. This will provide you with one way links from high page ranking websites as well as real web users who come to your site through the link in your article’s resource box.

Creating videos and submitting them to video sharing sites is another excellent way to promote your business for free. These sites are some of the most popular on the web and it is possible to get a lot of visitors to your website from this medium. Videos that are short and informative and discuss your business are great traffic generators online.

Other ways to promote your site is to have a link directory and get a number of links to your site from related websites. This will take an investment of your time and in addition you want to make sure that you are developing links from websites with the same or higher page rank than yours. It is possible to get quite a bit of links to your site in this way though and by having your link on sites that are related to yours, it is possible to get a number of visitors directed to your site. There are also quite a bit of directories spread on the net where you can submit your site and in many cases get a one way link to your site.

These are a few ways of doing free online business advertising. Find what works best for you and remember that it is well worth the extra time you spend since without proper advertising your site might be lost in the web, having no visitors arriving to it.