Your new home online business will benefit a lot from various Internet marketing methods. But you don't have to spend millions of dollars just to get some decent exposure for your website. There are lots of ways to promote your website for free and many others that will not blow your advertising budget!

Before you can make use of these low cost Internet marketing strategies, you will need a website to display your products and services. If you are HTML-literate you could create one yourself, or you could hire a web developer to do it for you. Alternatively there are many excellent ready-made websites that can be bought and installed at low cost.

Once your website is up and running, you need to make use of your online power - through Internet marketing. Here are some simple methods that you might employ to promote your website for free, or without shelling out more than you can afford. Be warned though: these techniques need patience and some hard work to produce results.

1. Writing Articles

Writing articles like this one is one of the most important ways of promoting your website, and it's free! If you put quality content in the form of articles in your website along with your products and services, search engines will have to index your website. Getting you website indexed by popular search engines means more traffic for you. You can submit your article to several directories at once, using either software or websites dedicated to the purpose.

2. Links

One of your goals should be to attain a good ranking with search engines. One way to do it is through link building. This could be done through trading links to other online businesses that are related with yours.

3. Newsletters

Sending out newsletters to your subscribers (those who signed up for your newsletters) will help greatly in establishing a good working relationship with your customers or prospective customers. It has to be short, sweet, consistent and written for a general audience.

4. E-mail Marketing

As one of the best cost-effective Internet marketing tools, it stays as a very important method of keeping your customers aware of your products and services. Just make sure to avoid spamming or soon enough you will have to close down you business due to complaints. The best way of setting up an email or newsletter campaign is with an autoresponder.

5. Affiliate Marketing

This is the process of recruiting a network of smaller websites known as affiliates to drive targeted traffic to a website. Ad copy and links will be provided by the advertisers. You will have to pay a certain percentage of the sales profit to your affiliates. A good place to do this is through Clickbank's own list. This can be quite complicated; however, there are many good e-books out there dealing with the subject.

6. Forums

Expand your Internet Marketing network through joining forums is also very good way to promote your website for free. Choose forums that mainly discuss stuff related to your products and services. Actively posting responses or answers and asking for relevant information will build your reputation as a forum member and boost your website's visibility through your signature files. These signature files go with your every post. Links to your website could be included in this signature.

7. Write your own Blog

A blog is an excellent way to promote your website for free. 'Blog' is the widely used term that refers to weblog. Basically, a blog is an online journal. A blog could be set up to no cost at all, and can be used for just for the fun of it or for promoting your website. You can also link your blog to your own website, which will give your website greater value in search engines. Google's own Blogger is an excellent and easy way to set up your own blog. (You will need to set up a Google account to do this.)

Remember, patience is the key: promoting your website through the internet marketing methods described here takes time But these techniques are some of the best for ensuring long-term success. I recommend focussing on one or two at a time. I wish you every success!