Website promotion is the continuing process of promote a website to bring more visitors to the website. Website promotion is vital to your success as an affiliate marketer. There’s no point being an affiliate marketer if no one knows about your products or services. Website promotion consists of a seven step approach:

1. Writing compelling content
2. Building inbound links
3. Search engine submission
4. Paid Web Advertising
5. Social Media
6. Email strategies
7. search engine optimization

Writing Compelling Content

One fundamental rule in affiliate marketing is content is king. By writing content to promote your website and/or products you will communicate with your audience and keep them coming back.
Original content will continue to attract audience and more opportunity to sell your products and services. Writing content for article directories is one of the best way to promote your website. Sites like EzineArticles. com and GoArticles. com allow you to publish your article to millions of viewers. The only caught is that you have to publish original articles. With every article you create, publish an article on one of these directories. Which allow you to create a back link to your site.

Building Inbound links

Inbound or back links are incoming links to your website. The number of back links is one indication of the popularity or importance of your website. This is use to determine your page rank in major search engines. Your page rank will determine where you will show up in search results, the higher your rank the more visitors.

There many ways for you to create back link such as comment posting, forum posting, directory submission, social media, back link software. To place a back link you will need the HTML tag

Search Engine Submission

Is on of the most simple way of get your site promoted. Search engine submission is how a webmaster submits a web site directly to a search engine. While Search Engine would have found your site eventually because they use crawlers, bots, and spiders to locate your website on the Internet. There are two basic benefits to submit a web site or web page to a search engine. The first reason would be to add an entirely new website within hours rather than to wait for a search engine to discover you. The second reason is to have a web pages or web sites updated in the respective search engines.

Paid Web Advertising

Paid advertising is one of the most effective and riskiest of all this methods. It can be a great tool for your online business, or it can ruin you. Through company that offer paid advertising you will be able to gain huge amount of traffic to your website for a fee. By bidding on keywords, the company will decide what to charge for your ads. It can reach large sum for one keyword because of competition for that keyword and can rack up huge debt if not handle properly.

Social Media

Social media is the largest growing method to promote your website. Social media encourage person to interact with each other on a daily. By making comments and discussion about your website indirectly and/or directly you will drive traffic to your site and bring attention to your site. Every social media allow you to use HTML tag to create a back link.

Email Strategies

Email is one of the oldest method of promotion(I don’t mean spamming). By taking sometime creating a signature in your email you will be able to advertise your website. For every email you send allow your signature to be attached, this allow for a word of mouth approach. Publish an E-Mail Newsletter every month and send it to family and friends. This is also great way to keep in touch with those who visit your site by generate trust, develop brand awareness, and build future business.

Search Engine Optimization

Perhaps the most important and inexpensive strategy to rank high in search engine. For every keyword your website use there searches on the main search engines in “organic” or “natural” ways for that keyword. (as opposed to paid ads). Search engines send robot “spiders” to index the content that match that keyword, by preparing your webpage for optimal indexing you increase your rank. The idea here is not to trick the search engines, but to leave them abundant clues as to what your webpage is about. This approach is called “search engine optimization, ” or SEO.

Conclusion

I have listed only the most popular and effective method to-date. All you will need is to spend some time and promote your affiliate website.