Business advertising

You need to advertise to attract customers. But what can you do if you have a limited advertising budget? Lots! The following methods are some of the best and cheapest ways to promote your online business with low cost advertising and no cost advertising.
-Link Exchange. Offer to trade links with other websites similar to yours. Your search engine rank will increase if your site links with a lot of other sites. This leads to more visitors to yours. Include a list of "Recommended Sites" on your website. Search under "reciprocal links" to find several good ones.
-Search Engine Submissions. Some sites will automatically submit your website to the top search engines. Submit to MSN, Yahoo, Google, etc. Even the minor search engines, foreign search engines, and directories can give you needed and valuable traffic. A great free service that will submit instantly to 40 great search engines and directories is Submitexpress.com.
-Write Articles. Write original articles and submit them to article submission services. As your well written original articles get picked up and published by other blogs and websites with your link back to your website you get more traffic, more links, and better search engine rankings for your website. A great service to submit your articles to AND to get plenty of new free articles to post to your blog or website is Ezinearticles.com.
-Start Your Own Blog. A blog is a website that you can quickly set up at no cost. Start a blog on a subject of interest to you or where you have expertise. You can post articles there regularly, advertise to get readers, and readers can post comments to your articles. You can add affiliate links from Clickbank and Google Adsense to your Blog to monetize (make money) from it once it gets going. Sign up to be an affiliate at Clickbank and you can find some suitable products to advertise on your blog, with your affiliate link, in the links section on your blog. Check the "Promotion" section at Clickbank. You can sign up for Google AdSense too. They will give you code to insert on your blog and when readers click on the ads you will make money and be sent a check from Google.
-Post On Blogs. Submit your article also as posts to high ranking blogs similar to your website. Or you can post a relevant comment and add a signature line with a link back to your blog, with maybe an offer of a no cost report on your blog. Check their posting policy, if any. Do a Google search for "(your niche) blogs" and post your article or comment to them with a link back to your website.
-Post To Ad Forums. Find some advertising forums with a Google search for "ad forums" or "advertising forums." Sign up for them and begin to regularly post your articles to them.
-FFA Links and Classifieds. Prospect Response and other FFAs and classifieds can bring in some traffic when you have time for them, and add links to your website to increase search engine ranking. Do a search for "FFAs" or "classifieds" on Google to find some.
That's it! Some great ideas to get you started with cheap ads and no cost ads!