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So you now have a home online. Your very own website! If you’re following Sansietch, you’ve done it all for free.

 

Let’s look at various ways to drive traffic to your website.

 

Step Two:

 

A few basic points:

 

• Artists and musicians should always start local and expand out. Doing this will help spread the word about you to hundreds, if not thousands after time. Why give yourself any handicap in gaining fans?
• I’ll teach you my three basic methods of getting face to face online.
• Guerilla marketers use creativity as their edge.

 

Below is a guide listing some companies that offer pay-per-click advertising on your site, as well as banner exchange and webring websites. Affiliate advertising companies and more!

 

Name of Website	Web Address	Free Services?	Pay Services?	Low Monthly Cost	Sansietch 1 to 10 Rating
Google Adsense	www.google.com/adsense	Yes	Yes	N/A	6
Partner Gateway	www.affiliates.befree.com/affiliate/index.jsp	Yes	Yes	%	7
Hits4Pay	www.hitsforpay.com	Yes	Yes	N/A	7
TrafficSwarm	www.trafficswarm.com	Yes	Yes	N/A	7
LinkScout	www.linkscout.com	Yes	Yes	N/A	7
My TrafficX	www.mytrafficx.com	Yes	Yes	N/A	8
WebRings	www.webrings.com
Bpath	www.bpath.com/	Yes	Yes		8

Webpage Banners & Ad Services

 

 

Some advertisers, like Google, won’t accept you if you have similar advertisers already on your site. It pays to think out which sites you want to join. Read their terms of service (TOS). See my original webpage…

 

 www.angelfire.com/rock3/sansietch

 

 

Since I don’t consider Adsense to be overly profitable, I don’t think it’s too great a consideration, but this is your business, and you must make the decisions.

 

Don’t be fooled by all the names. Choose one type and start in. Webrings are a good place to start. You can look them over and some have members with lots of traffic. Those sites will see your ad in the webring banner!

 

Each site loads a banner on their page, and it has revolving ads for all the members. A good targeted draw to your site.

 

How do you put their banner on your website? While the webring will give you instructions, it is a simple enough process.

 

1.     Get the html code for the banner from the webring.

2.     Copy and paste it into a Word document.

3.     Open your web hosts editing site for your page.

4.     Paste the html into your page (usually this is something you’ll want at the bottom of your homepage.)

 

Get used to copying and pasting this html code. You’ll be doing it for almost all banner and link exchange stuff.  

Many times they will need to send you a confirmation email. Or they will look at or troll your site to see if you’ve put the code up. Then they approve you.

 

 

 

Tips For Banner And Link Exchange Marketing

 

1.      The idea should be not so much to make a forture, as to gain, and cover the costs of gaining, exposure. These are possible sales, possible fans!
2.      If possible create a specific page on your site for links, otherwise no more than one banner or ad type link should be placed at the top, the rest at the very bottom. (Some banner or link exchanges will require they be on the homepage, so regardless, you should have a space at the bottom.)
3.      Create a banner to use for exchanges. There are sites that will do this for you with templates for free. They often give you the same banner in several standard banner formats and sizes.

 

 

 

Visit My Old Homepage, As Well As The New Website!

 

This is the ultimate learning example. See for yourself how I set up the new site using the knowledge I gained.

 

www.angelfire.com/rock3/sansietch

 

sansietch.webs.com

 

By now you should have at least one banner, one ad, and one link on your site. Remember, this is not so much about money, as it is increasing your reach online. How many sites can you exchange links with?

 

The next step will be to get your site placed in search engines, blog engines, and directories or indexes.

 

Don’t stop here or your site will draw flies instead of fans.

 

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