You have started your new business startup venture! That’s good, but what’s next? The most essential aspect for any startup a good online identity! You need to promote your website relevantly in as many places as you can in order to gain traffic and backlinks. In order to do this, you need to invest a lot of time in searching for websites that will allow you to feature your website’s URL or the URL of one of the pages of your website. In order to save your time, here are 50 free places where you can start promoting your website right away! Have a look.
Online Business Directories
You will come across many online free and paid business directories ranging from the most high-profile ones to the standard ones. These directory websites do get a huge amount of traffic. It is extremely easy to get your website listed on one of these directories. All you have to do is fill up details about your website along with your website URL. The business directory will incorporate your business information in its data bank; this information will be verified and then made live. The best way to search online directories is to start with your location. For instance, if you are targeting Indian audience, you can search for business directories in India.
Here are some good business directories where you can list your website:
- Google My Business
- Bing Places
- MapQuest
- Yelp
- DMOZ
- eLocal
- MapQuest
- Super Pages
- Yellow Pages
- Submit Express
Social Media Websites
Social media websites have abundant features for all the website owners. You might be having a profile on Facebook, but you must explore all other aspects as well; you can create your own business page, mention your working hours, your company address and contact details, you can even sell your products on Facebook! Likewise, you can use WikiHow for posting user-generated content and tutorials. You can use the social media websites to promote your on-going offers. You will also come across paid promotion options for a better ad reach. Have a look at the websites mentioned below and explore them to makes sure that you are utilizing their full potential:
- Google Plus
- Tumblr
- YouTube – Create a business page and publish your tutorial or how-to videos
Also Read, How to Attract Potential Customers to Your Website from Facebook
Answering Websites
You will come across many free question and answer website where you can create your account and participate in the discussion. You can mention your business information in your profile along with a link to your website. You will find many categories in these websites where you can post your answers. Wherever relevant, you can also quote your website URL or the URL of any of the page of your website. Be careful while posting and make sure to read all the guidelines of the website before adding any link. Here are some good answering websites where you can create your presence:
Content Publishing
You can create articles with reference to the topic of your website and publish them in various article directories and other websites that enable you to create a free blog. It is important to make sure that the article you have created provides value to the readers. Use images to make the content more impressive and readable. There are many content aggregation websites that serve as a platform to publish your content. Here are some useful content publishing resources:
- WordPress
- Blogger
- AllTop
- Ezine Articles
- Scoop.it
- Medium
- Sooper Articles
- Apsense
- Article Base
- Go Articles
- Article Dashboard
- Article Biz
- Article Pole
Press Release Websites
You might want to reach out to the audience and tell them about your latest updates and about the endeavors you are undertaking. If you have got some news, a press release is the best way to say it! There are many free and paid press release websites where you can publish your website related news. Have a look at the press release websites mentioned below:
- Online PR News
- PR Fire
- 24-7 Press Release.com
- ClickPress.com
- EcommWire.com
- Free-Press-Release.com
- I-Newswire.com
- TheOpenPress.com
- PR Log
- PressReleasePoint
- BigNews.biz
- Online PR Media
Hope these resources were useful to you. Get started with your website promotion right away!