Dan Thies is the author of “Search Engine Optimization Fast Start,” and a frequent contributor to WebProNews. He has more books coming out soon on pay-per-click advertising, email marketing, e-zine publishing, and a beginner’s book on building a small business website.

Dan is happy to answer “almost any” question, but if you would like an intelligent answer, please stick to the general topics of online marketing, website promotion, and search engine positioning (including pay per click). Please include your website’s URL, and as many details as possible.

Writing articles and submitting them for publication is a very powerful promotion tactic. BUT, this can be taken a step further to put your articles on auto-pilot.

First of all, you need to get a good fr~e autoresponder such as http://www.getresponse.com or http://www.sendfree.com

There are many ways to creatively and affordably promote your online business. I have tried all of the following and they worked very well for me.

Have you ever thought of something and felt like a fool for not having thought of it earlier? If so, then you know what I felt like one day not so far in the past.

Web Site promotion should be the major part of your web site marketing plan. It’s not enough just to design a beautiful web site and put in on the Net. Promoting your web site has to be done constantly if you want to get a continuous stream of traffic to it. If you don’t drive traffic to your web site, your online business venture will soon fail.

Almost everybody promotes affiliate programs these days more than ever. Even the ‘gurus’ use them to generate multiple income streams along with their own business. I’ll show you exactly how I generate INCOME marketing affiliate programs and how you can do the same even if you don’t have your own Web Site or Newsletter.

The following tactics can apply to any kind of affiliate program.

If you are selling anything, you should have a website. If you are selling ebooks, you should consider it mandatory. How many people do you know who read ebooks but don’t access the Internet? None come to my mind.

The best thing about having a website is that you can quite probably do it free. Later, once you know what you’re doing, you can choose to buy a domain name and pay a hosting service if you want.

You can pay someone to design a gorgeous site for you, loaded with graphics, complete with a secure server and the option to buy right there, but I didn’t. My publisher does the selling. Writing a site yourself, loaded with information and a place to click to send someone to your publisher, is simple.

Be very clear with your request for reciprocal linking. After you have thoroughly researched a potential site to ensure they are appropriate and actually do have links to other sites, consider the following:

Promoting your small business website in the search engines can be a daunting task. Use of free submissions and link popularity is a good starting point for your website promotion campaign. Start with the basis of good search engine and directory listings. Make sure you read and follow each search engine and directory’s rules for submissions. Before making submissions, always verify that all your website links and pages work, with no pages “under construction.”

Most likely, you are restricting the growth of your business by unknowingly restricting how you promote it.

While traditional marketing can work for the book author or publisher, the return is dim for the huge effort it takes. You must promote 90% of the time to even get a milligram of attention. While you may have a success or two, most of your efforts will bring poor book sales. Ask yourself right now, what is working for me? What is not?

Have you ever posted ads to the FFA (Free For All) classified sites? I don’t use them at all anymore because the results are just not what they once were.

The biggest problem I’ve always had promoting my web site is keeping myself focused. After all, what should I be doing? Publishing my own e-zine, placing classified ads, looking for link exchange partners, writing articles… My head is beginning to spin just from trying to list all the promotion strategies available today!

A couple of weeks ago I listed 5 tips that could be used to improve the effectiveness of your free ezine ads. The response was so good that I decided to list 5 more tips this week. Enjoy…

While traditional marketing can work for the book author or publisher, the return is dim for the huge effort it takes. You must pitch relentlessly and constantly to even get a milligram of attention. While you may have a success or two, most of your efforts will bring poor book sales. Ask yourself right now, what is working for me? What is not?

In this article, I want to discuss 3 different approaches to generating traffic to your website; how each approach can help you promote YOUR website; and who REALLY benefits from these methods.

Question: What do the following sites have in common? StartBlaze; Trafficology; and TextMeFree.com.

Site 2: Trafficology newsletter

You still have to put the website promotion ideas into practice, though, so you may not actually benefit at all.

Trafficology – 7/10

The biggest problem I’ve always had promoting my web site is keeping myself focused. After all, what should I be doing? Publishing my own e-zine, placing classified ads, looking for link exchange partners, writing articles… My head is beginning to spin just from trying to list all the promotion strategies available today!

The biggest problem I’ve always had promoting my web site is keeping myself focused. After all, what should I be doing? Publishing my own e-zine, placing classified ads, looking for link exchange partners, writing articles… My head is beginning to spin just from trying to list all the promotion strategies available today!

In this article, I want to discuss 3 different approaches to generating traffic to your website; how each approach can help you promote YOUR website; and who REALLY benefits from these methods.

1. Not withstanding, there is a huge amount of quality information on the Internet, much of it free, and also lots to exchange our energy in the form of dollars for someone else’s energy in the form of product or service, on how to sell and market our books.