Although search engine optimization of your site can be time consuming, it's worth the effort.

By optimizing your site for the search engines, and then submitting your site, you can drive traffic to your site by choosing the correct keywords to target and then creating content for those keywords.

The best software for helping you optimize your website for the search engines is Web CEO, This free software works on any computer and includes an HTML editor that will tell you if your pages are properly optimized.

4. Press Releases
Press releases are news about your business. In fact, they're actually better than advertisements because you are providing information about your business.

With press releases, like articles, you can write search engine optimized content to submit to the main press release sites. Not only is this inexpensive, and sometimes free, but your press release could be featured on major news sites.

You can submit press releases to PR Web:

5. Networking/Forums
Networking is a great way to meet other people in your industry. This is especially important if you want to do joint ventures because joint ventures can help you quickly increase your bottom line.

Forums are simliar in that you can meet others in your industry, but you can also go to forums on your topic of interest and meet others that are interested in your products and services.

To find the best forums and networking sites to market on, go to Alexa: http: Search for "topic" (whatever your topic is), and forum.

The reason you want to use Alexa is that you can quickly get traffic stats and find out which forums and networking sites rank highest.