Reaching Readers While Offline
Sunday, October 18, 2009 7:48The power of the Internet is at times unbelievable.
We can now reach potential readers and customers
through so many various means that it would be
possible to spend all day at the computer networking.
You may even do just that! However, with the increased
use of instant communication through social networking,
those who are new to the internet are still using the
slower and steady forms of marketing.
Blog posts, forum participation, and professional
networking are all great ways to reach potential
visitors to your site–and it all happens behind
the scenes while you?re offline.
Blog posts with links to your site are a great tool
for drawing in free traffic. The posts stay up as
long as you want them to, and direct links to them
can also be shared via social networking indefinitely,
with the use of permalinks.
Participating in forums is also a great way to make
contacts who are truly interested in what you might
have to offer. Gaining trust is important here, so you
may need to be a forum member for quite some time before
you will see a big return on leaving a link in your
signature line.
Professional networking sites such as LinkedIn are also
a great way to get the word out and drive free traffic
to your site. List all your websites in your professional
profile, and they?re there for anyone who joins your
network to see and follow.
