Now that you have built your Affiliate Marketing niche website, as discussed in Step-By-Step Guide to Building an Affiliate Marketing Website, comes the Internet Marketing portion and promoting your website to get traffic.

Steps to Website Promotion and Internet Marketing

1. Submit your Site to the major Search Engines and a few others:

Google

Yahoo

MSN

Scrub the Web

Gigablast

Add Your Site Free

My Design Award

Twitter – Create a profile for each of your websites and follow some people

LinkedIn – Create a profile and add your websites

MyBlogLog – Create a profile and add all your websites and blogs, join groups and add contacts!

Claim your Blogs @ Technorati - If you built a blog and not a website submit it to Technorati and set automatic pinging for whenever you update.

2. Start Promoting your site

US Free Ads Classifieds

Is a great resource for promoting you website and niche and getting traffic and sales. This site has lots of traffic on its own, and the visitors are looking to buy, also the individual ads rank high in Google because Google loves US Free Ads. As discussed previously, make sure to again use targeted keywords for your Ad titles and at least 3% keyword density throughout the Ad body.

Directories: Add your website to Internet Directories

Some of the more popular higher ranking directories, like the king of directories DMOZ, have a long wait so it is important to submit to the less ranking directories to get the backlinks quicker. Also directory listings are in in of themselves a good source of web site traffic since many people use these directories when searching the net.

Add Url has the longest list of directories on the planet 700 to date, ordered by Page Rank and presented with hyperlinks for easy submission.

I use Directory Submission Service, which saves loads of time because they submit for you. Cheap and effective.

Article Marketing

This is the cornerstone of your Internet Marketing Campaigns. Submitting articles to article sites gives you great exposure and massive backlinks (see my tutorial on backlinks for details: Link Building Basics)

You can submit articles manually, but I don’t, this takes way too long and is like emptying the ocean with a teaspoon, I use Unique Article Wizard and highly recommend this service to get massive exposure, promotion and backlinks for your websites. It’s a little pricey, but if you can afford it’s well worth it. If you can’t afford it now, then you can always reinvest any money you make into it at a later time. As any business, the affiliate marketing requires some investment of profits to keep growing and making more money.

See my tutorials on article writing for pertinent details: Article Marketing 101 & Are you Writing Garbage?- Keys to Writing Great Articles.

Relevant Link Exchange

One of a few link building techniques for a good linking strategy for your Search Engine Optimization efforts and crucial to climbing in SERPS and Page Rank. I have written 2 separate posts explaining link building and you can read it here: Link Building Basics and The Importance of Anchor Text in Link Building.

Other Promotion Methods

Follow all the ways in the following post to promote your website and content.

13 Ways to Build Backlinks that also Increase Website Traffic

If you are new to all of this, it may be very confusing and overwhelming. Just follow the steps, and I promise you the light bulbs will start going off and it will all make sense. This is a hands on business and you need to do it in order to truly understand it.

Good luck in all your Internet Marketing Ventures!