My Free Marketing Experiment

A question that has always been asked is, “Is it possible to have a popular website without spending any money?” That is a good question isn’t it. There are a lot of people out there who want to start a website or blog and compete with the corporate websites out there but just don’t have the money for it. So to answer this question for myself and others I am conducting an experiment.

I am using this blog as the experiment. If you have noticed I am using only free services to promote this blog and get readers. I am using blogspot to host the blog which can handle unlimited traffic so no worries about bandwidth and there are a ton of free file hosting services on the net to handle any files people need. I am also using free methods of getting traffic to this blog. On a later post I will go into more detail about different ways of getting free traffic. But here are some common methods of getting free traffic to your blog or website:

- Comment on other popular blogs and participate in forums.

- Use Yahoo Answers to answer questions and use your blog as the source site.

- Make use of the social networks such as StumbleUpon and MyBlogLog.

- Participate in exchanging RSS feeds or links with other popular blogs.

- Write articles and distribute them on the internet using your website address in your resource box.

- Use Search Engine Optimization to get ranked high in search engines.

So those are some common methods to get started. I will be using those same methods myself. So as I am conducting my free marketing experiment please check back and I will keep you posted on my progress.